This is another half season, like 2.0 and 2.5. It included the Razor movie that I reviewed earlier, along with three discs of new episodes. This series continues to not only hold my attention, but squeeze it, shake it like a newborn baby or your best friend’s can of pop, flip it inside out, and cause it to spontaneously combust. Five stars, and I’m biting my nails for the release of season 4.5. XO offering to airlock himself! Just the best.
“What does I.T. stand for?” Holy wow, this nails all of the craziness and uncomfortableness and awesomeness about being an IT nerd. “Ich bin ein nerd!” Getting snapshots of British humor from Monty Python, and then from Red Dwarf… it’s evolved beautifully, and I still miss it. I NEEDS MORE! Five stars!
Momentous Occasion
Cian rolled over onto his belly all by himself for the first time today, and we both missed it. We were engrossed in discussion with a friend, looked back, and he was on his belly. Hunter righted him, and he did it again. I -almost- caught it on camera, but my batteries were dead. I was only off by a half of a second.
The batteries are charging, there’s plenty of room on the SD card, and I’m certain that he’ll get angry enough at himself to do it again. :) Holy crap, proud Dad moment!
Ubuntu 9.04 is running really, really well on this Dell laptop. So far, I’ve only had to un-blacklist my video card to get Visual Effects (Compiz Fusion) working and install one deprecated bluetooth package to get my mouse working. The lack of pre-installed Skype is worrisome. It’s not in the repositories, and 9.04 isn’t listed as compatible on Skype’s page. I’m hoping that this is resolved before 9.10 is released.
Suspend and hibernate modes work like a charm on this Dell, though.
Also, in nerd news, I think I might be crazy:
– LiveJournal
– Blogger
– Twitter
– DeviantArt
– Facebook
– Writery web page
– Writery Google Group
There’s a reason that I have a hard time keeping up. Think I’m going to stop the cross-posting via Twitter, too.
Anata ga inai, watashi mo inai.
This post is just for the song. It’s all about the music. :)
The IT Crowd: Series 1 & 2
You.. he said… she… STRESS! *blink* British humor about a small IT department that lives in the basement? Really? “Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on? You have? Is it plugged in? *pause* Yeah, you’re welcome.” *click* Did I mention the melodramatic goth that’s behind the red door? No? Wow. :) Cradle of Filth, indeed. Five stars!
Second season! Yes! When did the furniture in the office start changing every episode? Death of the big boss, taken over by his even crazier son. I think I’ve worked for some of these people. :) Is Reynholm Industries hiring? I’ll jump across the pond to join this IT team. Five stars!
Wow, Drivel (a blogging tool for Gnome) has come a really long way. It’s gotten so user friendly that I’m having no problem playing with the new options even while Cian tries to eat my hand.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your education is about to take a curious and interesting turn. During the coming weeks, I expect that you’ll upgrade your street smarts and explore a whole new meaning for the term “hands-on experience.” You’ll find out about an area of ignorance that was so deep and dark you didn’t even know about it, and you’ll take aggressive steps to get it the teaching it needs. Congratulations in advance for being brave enough to open your mind so wide, Taurus. I’m glad you’ll be hunting for a fresh set of questions.
The Prophecy: Uprising and The Prophecy 5: Forsaken
Without the fifth movie, the fourth simply isn’t worth the time to watch it. At the end, I wanted my 88 minutes back. 90% setup, 10% depressing conclusion. There wasn’t even a climax in this movie. It’s like I turned on the vacuum while I was watching the movie… sucking was happening all the way through. The only thing that earned this movie its second star was the acting. There’s only so much you can do when you’re handed a bucket of poop labeled “Script”, and these guys did it.
This one is a sequel to the fourth movie. Neither of them really belong in the Prophecy franchise. Blessedly, this one was only 75 minutes of suckage. The dark angel Stark, played by the same dude that shows up in every horror movie EVAR, was easily defeated by paper. I was reminded of the aliens that were burned by water in Signs… just ridiculous. Once again, two stars due to mostly good acting. All in all, do yourself a favor and avoid these movies.
ORLY?
Cannot partition a hard drive, in Linux, that’s mounted. Duhr. On a completely unrelated note:
Aradia: Or Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland
My review
rating: 1 of 5 stars
There’s a problem with 19th century religious studies texts is the blatant “my research is better, and oh by the way, read this other work I’ve written.” Not only that, he admits that he’s rewritten a lot of the translated texts, to keep with his “feeling” of what the “intent” of the Italian was. His bias is basically shoveled into the work.
I have to admit that there’s some useful stuff in there, but I can’t really recommend it.