War of the Stars
Had the parents visiting again tonight - passing through on the way to the airport tomorrow. Got caught up on all the family news, plus I got some final Christmas presents. We even discussed Harry Potter some over dinner - we watched Philosopher's Stone over Christmas and Mum read the books, and even Dad (very much the non-bookworm of the family) is working his way through Chamber of Secrets at the moment. I don't think that they'll be going to 
hp_orlando, tho'.
Having recently seen Phantom Menace, Mum's DVD selection for the evening was Attack of the Clones - and we started with the heckling almost immediately with the dodgy title and despising of Jar-Jar. Other high(?)-lights includedSaruman Count Dooku entreating a certain Jedi to join him - all it needed was Ian McKellan playing Obi-Wan, the total inconsistency of Yoda's speech (sometimes verb last, sometimes normal order, othertimes inbetween) and the sheer direness of the love-story dialog (just kill them already!)
Today's linkage: As a long time Mac-hater, I'm continuing to eat humble pie with the release of the latest oh-so-desirable PowerBook G4 17" (now also running X11 for Mac OS X). Thankfully, the price tag is sufficiently obscene (£2,598.99!) that I'm managing to resist temptation fairly easily. Also Slashdotted is "If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!" - I've only looked through 2 1/2 of the 15 pages, but already there's everything from Shakespeare to William Gibson, Gilbert and Sullivan to Dr. Suess. Much laughage.
hp_orlando, tho'.Having recently seen Phantom Menace, Mum's DVD selection for the evening was Attack of the Clones - and we started with the heckling almost immediately with the dodgy title and despising of Jar-Jar. Other high(?)-lights included
Today's linkage: As a long time Mac-hater, I'm continuing to eat humble pie with the release of the latest oh-so-desirable PowerBook G4 17" (now also running X11 for Mac OS X). Thankfully, the price tag is sufficiently obscene (£2,598.99!) that I'm managing to resist temptation fairly easily. Also Slashdotted is "If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!" - I've only looked through 2 1/2 of the 15 pages, but already there's everything from Shakespeare to William Gibson, Gilbert and Sullivan to Dr. Suess. Much laughage.
