Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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  • Music: Nena - 99 Red Ballons

OMG Far Side!

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.
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jiggery_pokery

November 17 2003, 15:25:33 UTC 17 years ago

Current Music: Nena - 99 Red Ballons

Good, innit?

*takes credit*

zorac

November 17 2003, 15:59:25 UTC 17 years ago

*click* *click* 99 *clickety-click*

I love iTunes.

I thought I had the original-language version as well, but apparently not. Hmmm. I suspect that that may be on the office music server. *checks* Nope. Ah... it's on on of the CDs hermorrine did for me. *listens*