As promised, I did indeed spend all of Sunday in the T00blerone. I even managed to be productive, getting a large slab of work done on my back-end code for
RS.org - the author listings pages are now generated automatically (well, kinda. I haven't finished the management code yet, so it still requires a manual import-export, but the pages don't have to be hand-crafted any more). In preparation for the imminent arrival of
The Two Towers extended DVD, I also re-watched
Fellowship. I won't bore you all with further squeeage beyond saying "Oh, my, that surround sound system was a good investment."
Alas, TTT did not arrive today (but tomorrow is the official release date, so fair enough). I did get a package from Amazon, though, containing
The Complete Far Side. This weighty tome (and I'm talking 1¼ stone/8 kilo weighty - so I probably won't be taking it to read on the 'plane next week) contains all 4,337 cartoons from its 14 year run in fantastic quality, 3 or 4 to a (very large) page. I've only looked at the first month's strips, but already the quality shines through - never less than a chuckle, and at least once a page I've been reduced to laughter liable to disturb the neighbours (for more than one definition of 'disturb') - a higher hit rate than
Dilbert or
User Friendly. At under tuppence a cartoon, the very hefty price tag actually looks pretty reasonable...
GIP idea shamelessly stolen from
owlman, but it's one I should have done ages ago. I've had a great love for M.C. Escher's work ever since a perceptive art teach suggested I might like it way back in secondary school. This will probably come as no surprise whatsoever to people who know both me and Escher's pictures - impossible figures, nifty tesselations, etc.
Relativity is probably my favourite work (I don't have the T-shirt, but I do have the jigsaw puzzle - and a right tricksy bastard it is too), and certainly one of his most famous - some of you (waves at
marysiak) may recognise it from Jim Henson's
Labyrinth. Also available
in LEGO.
