Made my first ever video cellphone call today, from me to Chris, via the Vodafone 3G network. Here’s how it went: JSR: “…..w00t! It works!” Chris: “Yeah! I can totally see you!” J: “I can see you, too. Some pixelisation when you move around, in the background especially.” C:…
So it’s finally kinda hitting me that my very old and good friend Chris Rigby will soon be departing the sunny shores of Auckland for the even more sunny but far more full of things that can kill you shores of some godforsaken city in the middle of nowhere,…
I’m watching a lecture from my excellent /media/Movies/Documentary/BatshitCrazy/ directory. I just uploaded a copy of “Titanic – THE SHIP THAT NEVER SANK” to it, which made me wander through it and play an item I hadn’t watched yet. As such, I am now enjoying “The Antichrist…
I’ve been scrounging ebay nearly constantly for a cheap semi-pro video camera. I put a couple of bids in, but have been outbid each time, so far, since the bids I’m putting in are all crazy-ass low. I have my eye on a Canon XL-1 or XL-1S, which…
Late sunday night. Workin’ on a screenplay and a storyboard for a short film[1]. Listening to old skool rap[2]. Wishing I had coffee[3]. Realising that I have to get up and go to work in 5 hours. One day I won’t have a day job. That’…
“Sheik Shady Suleiman, a cleric from Lakemba Mosque, admitted that, despite his community being “very understanding”, there were “some hardheads who want trouble”.” He’s Sheik Shady. The real Sheik Shady. All you other Sheik Shadys is just imatatey.…
I had a discussion with Isaac F the other day, in which we discussed government conspiracy theories, and he stated that he didn’t really think that the US government did the conspiracy theory thing any more and instead it just came out and said what evil stuff it was…
I’ve had a couple of people ask me what I thought of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, and I’ve had to tell them that I hadn’t seen it, and had no plans to see it. I disliked the books, you see. I didn’t connect…