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archive for December, 2002
First Impression
Very Good, as good as Fellowship.
Superb battles and follows both story threads nicely.
Also, Gollum was done very well, very nicely animated and you started to forget he was a CG character. A different league to Jarr Jarr Binks.
Good Things
Gollum voice acting
TreeBeard
Helms Deep (good explosion).
Ents attacking Isengard
Siege of Helms Deep
Gimli comedy, slightly overdone
They kept the Gimli/Legolas counting orcs scene
Not So Good Things
Elrond was far too nasty and non-elvish
Too many Arwen & Aragorn smoochy scenes
Too many scenes of scared children
Oh come on! Aragorn and Gimli aren’t that good
Elves at Helms Deep?
Rohan people didn’t seem that ‘great’
Check out the cover of the new William Gibson book, Pattern Recognition. mmmm
Lord Of The Rings : The Two Towers is released today! yay!
We are watching the special edition of the Fellowship before we see TTT 🙂
I’ll report back tomorrow on what it was like. Right now, I’m off to finish my xmas shopping.
We’ve gone all christmassy 🙂
look at the time!
Ok, just got in from celebratory-end-of-term drinkage with Pete, Neil and Doug.
We headed off to Doctors first, which was ok, if a little quiet.
Then off to Frankensteins which was packed (as usual) where the AI/CS department was having a ‘wake’ in aid of the recent fire at South Bridge.
Then we jumped across the street to Bar Kohl, which is just the best EVAR! We got a pitcher of some gin-vodka thing which was very, very dry. Noticed they had 79.9% proof vodka, left in a hurry before we had any ideas.
Next stop Finnegans Wake where there was the usual irish live music hi-jinks. good atmosphere, nice and busy. Ate a packet of crisps. Noticed big group of Japanese peeps with nice digi-cams.
Then headed down the scorched cowgate to Opium, Edinburgh’s ‘alternative’ club. Somehow managed to bump into Adam. Then the cs4 possee stormed in (on there end of term night out) and we proceeded to hurl insults at Sandy and Tim.
Something about Sandys Mum…
Oh yeah, I swear that group of Japanese folk followed us…
We then stopped for chips and spring rolls and clambered back up to our flat. Much Gamecube action proceeded, along with loud music. Then, bed. Which is where I am now headed.
Olly Out.
Currently Listening : as heard on radio soulwax pt. 2
Hold the Front Page!
Our power just went off for about 45 minutes, which was fun. We’d just got all the candles lit, chatted and I was just settling down with the hobbit when everything comes back on. So what do I do? Immediately go back to the warm glow of the CRT . 🙂
oh well, I’m now here, posting this for the world to see
Seems the fire is still burning: bbc new
Some pictures I took this morning and then this afternoon:
http://www.cyber-junky.co.uk/?page=gallery/index.php&mode=gallery&id=19
Interesting Report from the MoD cataloguing every military unit we have, from subs to soldiers.
Ministry of Defence – Performance Report 2001/2002
There is a major fire on South Bridge in Edinburgh at the mo. Its burning up though the stories, from Cowgate up to South Bridge. I can see a huge plume of smoke from here (sorry, doesn’t photograph well). Thankfully there isn’t a fire strike at the minute.
update
newspapers have finaly got a hold of it:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=5505969
w00t!
Two Towers tickets booked already!
Scarily there was about a third of the seats gone already, looks like its gonna be busy.
Oh yeah, watched the first ep of this, not bad, strange plot twists at times but could be good.
Its December! yay!
Edinburgh is getting all christmasy at the minute, lights up, ice rink in the gardens, big wheel etc.
I have two, just two, deadlines left. Big group project due in on Monday and a very nasty Algorithms & Data Structures handin (of DOOM) due in that Wednesday. The same day my parents come up for some christmas shopping.
yay!
now, must do work
oh yeah, that ‘ultimate’ cyberpunk book is alright, unfortunately I seem to have read 75% of the stories already 🙁