Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Random thoughts

In case you hadn't realised just how virulent the SoBig-F email virus is, our virus scanner logs show that we've found more than twice as many copies of SoBig-F in the last week as we found all viruses in total for the preceding year.

Last night's movie was A Knight's Tale, a film I knew was going to be fun the first time I saw it - when Queen's We Will Rock You starts up, it manages not to be incongruous with the medieval setting, and it takes you a while to realise that the amassed peasants (and indeed nobles) are stamping, clapping and singing along. This interweaving of the modern and the historical continues throughout the film to good effect.

Re-watching that was inspired by my re-reading of Tamora Pierce's swords and sorcery novels - some of the later of which feature jousting. I've been reading these books for the best part of twenty years - they are "Junior Fiction", aimed at a slightly older age group than Harry Potter - and the three Tortall quartets continue to be among my all-time favourite books. Happily, I can see from Ms. Pierce's site that she has plenty more books planned for the next few years.

Have been quoted by the (not so) mysterious somebodies.
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zorac

August 27 2003, 09:33:37 UTC 17 years ago

In case you haven't seen it, you can read the first two chapters of her next book on the web.

*wants now*

hermorrine

August 27 2003, 11:30:32 UTC 17 years ago

I love A Knight's Tale too. When I first saw it I thought the mixture of modern and historical wouldn't work, but it really was very well done. Of course, now I want to watch that movie...

ringbark

September 26 2003, 02:10:35 UTC 17 years ago

I have just been quoted by somebodies for the first time! Three quotations in the same offering!
Weather today: very windy but dry.
Incidentally, responsibilities is a word so long that it stretches over three lines on the tiny screen on the phone.
He writes song that express many of the things I think or thought.

By the way, how did you get your permanent account? By doing something very good for LJ, or by paying for it (like me) ?

zorac

September 26 2003, 03:41:43 UTC 17 years ago

I have to admit that I've been filtering somebodies of late, so i don't know if I've been quoted any further. And I got my permanent a ccount by plonking down a wad of moolah, same as you.