Be Excellent To Each Other

I can't make up my mind what was worse, Jupiter Moon (sci-fi soap shown on BSB's Galaxy Channel and made by Central) or Babylon 5.



On the upside, Jupiter Moon was made in Birmingham, and is therefore the most technically advanced thing to come out of the West Midlands in the last 200 years.

Of course top of the tree is Blakes 7. While its often said to be low budget the reality was it had the same budget as any other BBC drama series of the time. The Beeb didn't feel it would be justified giving Who or B7 any more money than a standard show would have. Sci-Fi is expensive. If you are doing a historical drama you can just go and pull the costimes and scenery out of stock. With sci-fi everything needs to be built hence the budget gets stretched.

Blimey Peter, well I never! I stand corrected on that score.

Personally, I love hot and spicy food, which means Mexican cuisine is high on my list, all washed down with a bottle or three of Mexican beer on a summer's afternoon in the garden.

Since moving house in December, I'm finding I'm spending more time on my PC now that I've got a comfier setup. This means my console gaming is lagging behind. That nice MrC chap has kindly beaten my Wolverine and Blade scores on Pinball FX 2 and I've not even been back to try and catch up again. Instead, I've actually been playing the Steam games I've been accumulating - Ghost Recon, Mount & Blade:Warband, Trackmania Forever and yesterday I ordered a wireless receiver for my Xbox controller so that I can give Outrun C2C a proper go.

That said, Test Drive Unlimited 2 is out shortly so I'll want to give that a go. Mind you, Just Cause 2 is still unopened after picking it up cheaply from Play.

I'm like that at the moment, but when I turn the XBox on, I can't help but feel I should be doing something a bit more productive.

To be fair to you, and I could be wrong here anyway: a lot of their national cuisine does look to be a lot healthier, more balanced and certainly more interesting than ours, but the worst part of American culture and businesses have spread there which can't be a particularly good thing for their health.

The spread of the real American Falafel joints, I'm affraid.

Can i get access to the dead thread at some point please? x

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cool amalgamation style photo.

Just read this quote on another site and it made me LOL

Done.

Has anyone come across any such thing as a little DAB radio for the bathroom that's not horribly expensive (£40 is about as much as I'd want to pay but less would be better)?

Aldi had some for £35. Not sure if they're any good though.

I was horribly disappointed with DAB. The reception was awful and the sound quality was like a 48k mp3. Things may have improved since the DSO, but I doubt it.

Long live FM

Unfortunately though the only station I want to hear is 6 Music (and Radio 4 at times but it's not good as background).

Take quicker shits?

I remember a time that every night I was keen to get on the xbox. because I knew every night something fun was likely to be happening on live. At the moment, it's quite unlikely generally for anything to be happening aside from CoD, and that's been the case for over a year. So I rarely bother unless someone sends me a message. (Google talk is now rather good for this - my phone tells me a game is wanted)

I just put my phone on speaker and use TuneIn Radio.

I don't like DAB, even if it worked.

Yeah Dave, a big part of the reason I enjoyed the 360 for the last couple of years was the Bezzieness of it all. It's been very sporadic lately, and I failed to keep up with buying the latest games too.

I've actually considered flogging the 360 today... but I think that's a step too far as it's a great media player and I'm sure there will be something along game wise that will excite me again.

I'm hoping the bomberman thing will be fun though.

There was a perfect storm of Bezziness a few years back wasn't there.

Sunrise, sunset. SunRISE, Sunset.

*whistles*

Videogames were just a fad, we're all playing with our swing wings now:

Argos do a nice little sony DAB - I have it in my kitchen and it does the job. Make sure you use the mains power supply with DAB radios though as they just om nom nom batteries.

*waits for Swing Wing Kinect*

Annoyingly, I missed a phone call at lunch time from the recruitment consultant that got me the telephone interview last Friday. Interestingly, all he'd say was that he'd had feedback from the company and that they'd like to progress further with the application. Sounds promising, eh?

Just as well really. I took Wedneday, Thursday and Friday off work last week because I was having a hard time of it being here with everything else going on. Annoyingly I'd started to feel a lot better about things over the weekend, but back here at my desk and I feel dizzy, sick and I just don't want to be here. It's obviously not just being at work per se that's causing this malaise, but the lack of anything taxing to do with my time here is really not helping. I could well do without having time to think right now.

I feel like utter crap right now. Flu-like symptoms kicking off.

I'm betting those kids in the commercial now move like Mohammed Ali. That can't be good for you... and it makes you look 'special'.

And I've got the song stuck in my head... I only watched it once!

I'm going to be stuck in Bicester forever at this rate.

First of all there was the ('Linda Barker' - Ed) Golden Age, then we had the anarchic collective. Now we're just biding our time until the four cyclists turn up and put us out of our misery.

Sorry to hear that, at least things are looking up a bit, though.

Stay strong, Zio.

Got to see the ex in about a week and half to two weeks to get the last few bits out of the flat and sign bills over. I've been thinking about things rather a lot lately and, worryingly, have concluded that I am not prepared to accept this relationship is over at present. This is of course the 4th time we've split up in approximately 5 years of being together, so whilst there is precedent for us getting over it and getting back together, there must come a point when you have to say "enough is enough". She has told me she has reached that point this time, though to be fair she says that every time. I don't believe I have just yet.

Let's hope I come to my senses soon, eh?

God, I feel sick. I was born cross-eyed and had to have surgery when I was around 4 years old to correct it. When I'm really tired, I lose control of my left eye, get dizzy and feel sick to my stomach. This is how I feel right now.

Fair play to my employer -- who I've certainly grumbled about more than once in the past. Not only have they been fantastic about my sick time (I spoke to my boss last week who told me in no uncertain terms that I am not to rush back to work too soon, I am to wait until I am ready), but I just had a knock at the door and an enormous Marks & Spencer fruit basket delivered with a get well soon card from the directors. Fair play indeed.

That must be very reassuring. How are you now btw?

Your move, McDonald.

You make it sound like such a bad thing…*looks around*. Oh. Cheer up, we may get a cinema by the end of the decade…

I've had enough of it here, now. Just waiting for something to happen so MrsA and I can move on with our lives. I'm feeling like I'm in purgatory at present. Still, at least Glory Farm is quiet these days.

£10 there's a mic/camera in that basket.

I know that feeling well. Find something to distract yourself. Which is hard at work, I know.

Maybe a combat wank?

Yeah, after 27 years here (4 missing due to university in Manchester and America), I'm fairly keen on escaping myself *casts an evil glare at the American visa agency…*.

(Greenwood here, so fairly quiet most of the time…)

I've booked a hotel in London for Friday and Saturday night, gonna bring my new gal to the Big City to see the sights and smell the odour of a train full of BO-ridden southerners

Shame Valentine's Day doesn't fall on one of the days we'll be in London, of course, but what the hell.

That just means it'll be cheap.

Oh, London. Right.

£98.50 for a two night stay for two people in London seems cheap enough to me.

Yeah, that's not bad at all.

That card in full:

Better. Less breathless, less tired all the time. Not 100% but on the mend.

Eugh, Monday afternoon and I'm on the coffee already. Got a crazy busy week as they've given us Friday off for revising for the mock OSCE a week today.

Learning how to intubate tomorrow, should be cool.

[OSCE = Observered standardarized clinical examination]

Good to hear.