Owie, and some tv reviews.
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lenora_roseApparantly I decided I needed to be distracted from the fact that I have a cold.
Since our basement was renovated, I've noticed that the washer seems to lean slightly forward. It's stable, so i wasn't exactly concerned, except that, if you let the washer lid bounce even a tiny bit when you open it, it closes again right away.
Yesterday, I opened it, thought I had it secure, and bent down to grab a few things from the basket. With my left hand on the washer to steady it.
The lid promptly slammed shut on the tip of my little finger. I screeched at once for sheer surprise, since of course I hadn't seen it fall, then shouted the word OW when i realised that it did in fact hurt. A lot.
It's pink and purple, swollen and painful, but not so extensively that I think it's a given that I'll lose the nail. It hurts to flex even though the knuckle joint seems okay, probably from the swelling. Bleah.
And then i damn near did it again with my left index finger. Fortunately, there were pants in the way, (That's a sentence you don't get to write very often.) I ended up with a small blood bruise and a fully working finger.
I guess it's a good thing I'm a rightie. And also a good thing that I was planning to mix clay today, because I suspect throwing would hurt.
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Taleisin - So far Barrage is indeed quite cool.
I have a question I should have asked earlier. How did you manage to burn a copy of Bond at all? So far as I can tell, that's too copy-protected to do anything on a computer (aggravating when I'd like to listen at school.) Not quite as bad as the newest Varttina, which ejects itself from the computer immediately. But certainly unfriendly.
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"86, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"No, I'm thinking what I'm thinking."
Colin's Christmas present arrived the Friday before the event (Meaning I almost left him a note saying he was going to the archery contest that night or else!)
Get Smart - the Complete Series.
(The Man from U.N.C.L.E was just enough more expensive to make up my mind for me. Also, not on the Canadian site, so it would have been even *later* in the shipping.)
This was such a good idea. I don't remember watching this series ever (though i knew some of the tag lines and such just from the way pop culture creeps in on all sides), which meant Colin felt, long before I got it for him, that I'd been badly deprived. The humour mostly survives the test of time. Some of the jokes are now old, but not as many as I'd feared. There's genuine wit here. Maxwell Smart could teach almost any modern attempt at the clueless idiot a few things about being funny, about the kind of dumb that's so twisted it turns to brilliance.
There are those things you'd expect from something written in the fifties; 99 does reasonably well at being a competent foil to Smart's idiocy, and has as much dimension as her male counterparts (That that's it's much dimension.), but the attitudes of the day about how to treat a female, and what she's capable of, still show up and make me flinch. (The "jealous female" jokes felt old the first time they showed up.) The ethnic jokes are there, shameless and considered ok. (the episode where the American Indians try and attack the US was a mix of painful and painfully funny). And I can't do pottery while watching; too many visual jokes, and they're never as good if you have to rewind and rewatch.
So. Squeee!
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"I think I made a big social mistake. I told the Slitheen how to destroy the world."
In honour of the return of Torchwood, some comment on the other Doctor Who Spinoff.
The Sarah Jane Adventures is the kid's version of Doctor Who; set on earth with his former companion, and a coterie of kids. Each storyline is two half-hour episodes.
Sarah Jane Smith has ended up moving in across from "ordinary girl" Maria Jackson, and her recently divorced father. (The wild and flighty mom is a regularly recurring character). Maria ends up witnessing Sarah Jane talking to an alien, and gets herself tangled up in the doings of wils space creatures, supercomputers, and threats to earth. By the end of the pilot, Sarah Jane has adopted Luke, a boy genius created by aliens, and Maria is very much in on the secret. They're soon joined by Clyde, a school friend smarter than he pretends to be, and so confident in his own cool that he's willing to hang out with the terminally awkward Luke, if it means space adventures.
It is, if possible, more clunky and awkward and flawed logically than Torchwood, and more inclined to shameless scientific bloopers than Doctor Who. The dialogue sometimes hurts, and only Luke, literally born yesterday, has an excuse to sound like he has no idea how human beings interact. The slitheen, some of the dumbest villains ever invented for Doctor Who, recur twice. Overall, the series is weak.
However, some of the storylines have merit. There's a story about kids whose laser tag games are in fact training for being drafted into an interstellar army, a kind of nod to Ender's Game and its ilk; there's hardly a fresh element to it at all (And a special effect that is so obviously made of jelly bellies it's sad) but it's made more plausible than most. The story where Sarah Jane is wiped from the world, with only Maria able to remember, is surprisingly well wrought and contains some actual emotion, in spite of the actual villain's completely implausible motive and action. (it's also the one that finally nods to the fact that Maria's dad can't be kept in the dark any longer.) That would have made a better season ender, as it happens, than the actual last story, which starts out promising when they learn that Luke might not have been created from nothing, but from someone else's kidnapped son, and ends as one of the least realistic and most irritating.
Since our basement was renovated, I've noticed that the washer seems to lean slightly forward. It's stable, so i wasn't exactly concerned, except that, if you let the washer lid bounce even a tiny bit when you open it, it closes again right away.
Yesterday, I opened it, thought I had it secure, and bent down to grab a few things from the basket. With my left hand on the washer to steady it.
The lid promptly slammed shut on the tip of my little finger. I screeched at once for sheer surprise, since of course I hadn't seen it fall, then shouted the word OW when i realised that it did in fact hurt. A lot.
It's pink and purple, swollen and painful, but not so extensively that I think it's a given that I'll lose the nail. It hurts to flex even though the knuckle joint seems okay, probably from the swelling. Bleah.
And then i damn near did it again with my left index finger. Fortunately, there were pants in the way, (That's a sentence you don't get to write very often.) I ended up with a small blood bruise and a fully working finger.
I guess it's a good thing I'm a rightie. And also a good thing that I was planning to mix clay today, because I suspect throwing would hurt.
_______________________________
Taleisin - So far Barrage is indeed quite cool.
I have a question I should have asked earlier. How did you manage to burn a copy of Bond at all? So far as I can tell, that's too copy-protected to do anything on a computer (aggravating when I'd like to listen at school.) Not quite as bad as the newest Varttina, which ejects itself from the computer immediately. But certainly unfriendly.
_______________________________
"86, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"No, I'm thinking what I'm thinking."
Colin's Christmas present arrived the Friday before the event (Meaning I almost left him a note saying he was going to the archery contest that night or else!)
Get Smart - the Complete Series.
(The Man from U.N.C.L.E was just enough more expensive to make up my mind for me. Also, not on the Canadian site, so it would have been even *later* in the shipping.)
This was such a good idea. I don't remember watching this series ever (though i knew some of the tag lines and such just from the way pop culture creeps in on all sides), which meant Colin felt, long before I got it for him, that I'd been badly deprived. The humour mostly survives the test of time. Some of the jokes are now old, but not as many as I'd feared. There's genuine wit here. Maxwell Smart could teach almost any modern attempt at the clueless idiot a few things about being funny, about the kind of dumb that's so twisted it turns to brilliance.
There are those things you'd expect from something written in the fifties; 99 does reasonably well at being a competent foil to Smart's idiocy, and has as much dimension as her male counterparts (That that's it's much dimension.), but the attitudes of the day about how to treat a female, and what she's capable of, still show up and make me flinch. (The "jealous female" jokes felt old the first time they showed up.) The ethnic jokes are there, shameless and considered ok. (the episode where the American Indians try and attack the US was a mix of painful and painfully funny). And I can't do pottery while watching; too many visual jokes, and they're never as good if you have to rewind and rewatch.
So. Squeee!
______________________________________
"I think I made a big social mistake. I told the Slitheen how to destroy the world."
In honour of the return of Torchwood, some comment on the other Doctor Who Spinoff.
The Sarah Jane Adventures is the kid's version of Doctor Who; set on earth with his former companion, and a coterie of kids. Each storyline is two half-hour episodes.
Sarah Jane Smith has ended up moving in across from "ordinary girl" Maria Jackson, and her recently divorced father. (The wild and flighty mom is a regularly recurring character). Maria ends up witnessing Sarah Jane talking to an alien, and gets herself tangled up in the doings of wils space creatures, supercomputers, and threats to earth. By the end of the pilot, Sarah Jane has adopted Luke, a boy genius created by aliens, and Maria is very much in on the secret. They're soon joined by Clyde, a school friend smarter than he pretends to be, and so confident in his own cool that he's willing to hang out with the terminally awkward Luke, if it means space adventures.
It is, if possible, more clunky and awkward and flawed logically than Torchwood, and more inclined to shameless scientific bloopers than Doctor Who. The dialogue sometimes hurts, and only Luke, literally born yesterday, has an excuse to sound like he has no idea how human beings interact. The slitheen, some of the dumbest villains ever invented for Doctor Who, recur twice. Overall, the series is weak.
However, some of the storylines have merit. There's a story about kids whose laser tag games are in fact training for being drafted into an interstellar army, a kind of nod to Ender's Game and its ilk; there's hardly a fresh element to it at all (And a special effect that is so obviously made of jelly bellies it's sad) but it's made more plausible than most. The story where Sarah Jane is wiped from the world, with only Maria able to remember, is surprisingly well wrought and contains some actual emotion, in spite of the actual villain's completely implausible motive and action. (it's also the one that finally nods to the fact that Maria's dad can't be kept in the dark any longer.) That would have made a better season ender, as it happens, than the actual last story, which starts out promising when they learn that Luke might not have been created from nothing, but from someone else's kidnapped son, and ends as one of the least realistic and most irritating.
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Date: 2008-01-17 10:05 pm (UTC)I'm awaiting the upcoming movie with a mix of hope and trepidation. The cast sounds wonderful, but the screenplay didn't sound as promising.
Where did you get them? Are they still only available through Time-Life?
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Date: 2008-01-19 11:12 pm (UTC)All I know of the movie so far is that the trailer impressed me, not least because it didn't try to show every joke in the movie (And the whole plot), but set up a single really good joke instead.