Watched this new Clooney film the other night and its not bad, not really what I was expecting though. Starring and directed by the Clooney-meister it tells the story of some game show writer/creator from the US who also claimed to be a hit man for the CIA. The guy travelled around europe with the winners of his gameshows, assasinating people on the side. Not the usual holywood muck, Clooney certainly knows how to pick ’em. It would have probably helped the story a bit more if you knew all these american game shows they were on about.

There was a huge (~8,000) anti-war march in Edinburgh on Saturday. Me and my man rick went out and pretended to be professional photographers, mincing about amongst the police vans and camera crews at the head of the procession. View my haul of pics here in the gallery.
No doubt Rick will develop his mountain of film and scan them in at some point, what with him being an SLR man.

Oh yeah, I also went into StarBucks for the first time on Friday. I thought I’d try one of these Frappuccino things everyone is always ranting about, and MY GOD they are sickly. I only got through about an eighth of the damn thing before I slung it in a bin.

The stinky might of the DMCA seems to have fallen on bit torrent. A couple of the big sites have dropped off the radar amid rumours that a major US cable company had contacted one of them. Oh well, another one bites the dust. Although I have a feeling that bit torrent may bit a bit more resilient than some of the other p2p networks…

I had the urge to watch Full Metal Jacket last night, so I did. It was good.

“Ain’t war hell!”

yes

Matthew gives an interesting write-up here, as does charlie here.

From our trip out (read down):

nuttyxander.com

Some ‘excellent’ photos on msnbc:

http://msnbc.com/news/846463.asp

Get Your War On

Me, Ian and Alex decided to go on a trip to the coast today. Utilising alex’s l33t bus route skillz we hopped on and off buses with the skill of a bus-riding grasshopper. We got off the bus at Portabello, a coastal town just east of the whole Edinburgh sprawl. We headed for the promedenade and found the usual mess of gaudy amusement arcades and decrepid, ramshackle buildings. It even had a ‘Fun Fair’ that had ‘F*cking Shit’ spray-painted onto its sign, oh we laughed.

Anyway, we walked practically all the way along the promenade, in the fantastically sunny weather. We stopped to photograph all the nifty urban decay we found around the place, a disused outdoor swimming pool proved to have lots of nice angles. We spent quite a while here, taking lots of photos. Alex even whipped out his SLR.

Hunger was setting in by now, so we hopped on another bus to get down to Musselbrough hopefully for some fish and chips. After mincing about trying to find the high street we found an alright hotel/pub and had a reasonable lunch. Steak pie and beer, mmmmmm. We staggered out of the pub and immediately spotted an ice cream shop across the road, it was the famous Luca’s of Musselbrough. After queueing (queueing!) under the very flashy canopy/shop front we entered a cavern of ice cream goodness. We came out into the sunlight grinning like children and licking the already melting ice cream. After digesting all of this we were feeling very full, so we got on the next bus home.

We got off the bus on Princes street and found ourselves in the middle os a mass of mounted police, cycle cops and ordinary police. The anti-war march was plodding down the street and heading for the police station 🙂 We took a few pictures, alex headed home and me and Ian went home via Cockburn Street. In Fopp I finally bough As Heard on Radio Soulwax. We then visited tef at work and thus the story ends.

Made a brilliant chilli con carne yesterday, just polished it off tonight and am feeling very full.

I think I’m putting on weight. This is practically the first time, ever, I’ve though this and I eat like a pig. I’m the annoying guy that can just eat and eat and never seemed to get any wider. “Higher metabolism” I’ve heard it called.

Anyway, I blame all the junk food I’ve eaten over the last few weeks at uni, oh and living off farmfoods frozen pies for about a week.

I’m just kerazy today!

Just got this microsoft game, seems quite good. Its a elite-style space sim, but with a shallower learning curve. They’ve made the controls a lot more arcadey but it is still a lot of fun. A huuuuge universe to explore, but it seems a tad repetitive at times, as they reuse the same dialogue and locations but with different names.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/rant/torness.html – excellent tour around Torness reactor by Charlie Stross

The deadlines are over!
After one all nighter and endless supplies of pizza, curry and caffeine they are “finished”. Now we’ve just got to start/finish our Individual Practical over the easter break, and do some revision for exams in June. What fun. Our “easter” break, now there is a comedy holiday, we have four weeks off (quite a lot) but then we actually go back before easter. Then when we get back, we have the monday and the friday off, madness.

I wish blair would stop pussing-footing around and just call it a war. Instead they mince about calling it a “police action”, an “increased offesive” etc…

It Blair can’t admit to us, his people, then we’re screwed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2867593.stm

Dear Governor Bush:

So today is what you call “the moment of truth,” the day that “France
and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table.” I’m glad
to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya,
having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn’t sure if I
could take much more. So I’m glad to hear that today is Truth Day,
’cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:
read on…

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricketworldcup2003/overbyover/story/0,12864,914033,00.html

Normal service will resume on Wednesday, next week.
When there will be much rejoicing.

People in the UK may have seen the kerazy Junior Senior song that entered the charts at number 4 this week. Rather fine it is to, although the severe Radio 1 pimpage it got did no harm I’m sure. Anyhoooo, I linked to the vdeo last September. Ahead of the curve/pack/thing I am!
Stay tuned batfans!