Moon (2009)

Finally downloaded and watched this movie. Really good. Why can't there be more films like this happening? Good production values with a proper sci-fi plot.
I kept thinking it was going to be another one of these going mad in deep space stories but it was much more human. Especially that but where the camera pans around to see the earth and he is all alone.
And somehow the computer companion was more human than it's masters. Eeee Kevin Spacey!

On a similar note, I thought Solaris was pretty good.

Uncomfortable Truthasaurus

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

Mary and Max (2009)

find quotes... use them

sausage pasta thingamajig

Ingredients:
350g fresh spinach or egg tagliatelle
60ml freshly grated pecorino or Parmesan cheese

For the sauce:
8 fresh Italian pork and garlic sausages
15ml olive oil
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped
1 celery stick, finely chopped
225ml vegetable stock
2 flat mushrooms, chopped
1 bunch of fresh thyme, tough stalks removed
1x800g can plum tomatoes
salt and freshly ground black pepper
50g butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, gas mark 6.

Place the sausages on a baking tray and cook in the oven for 10 minutes.

Heat the oil in a large saucepan, add the onion, carrot and celery and pour in the stock. Cook for 5 minutes. Chop the sausages and add to the pan together with the chopped mushrooms. Cook for a further 5 minutes. Stir in the thyme leaves and tomatoes with their juice. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Cover and cook for 1 hour until the sauce is thick, stirring occasionally.

During the final 10 minutes of the sauce’s cooking time, cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water for 5-8 minutes, or according to the instructions on the packet, until al dente.

Drain and transfer to a large pasta bowl.

Stir the butter into the sauce, then pour over the pasta.

Sprinkle with the cheese and toss to mix

This is going to hinge on some really great strong tasting sausages...

kill your idols

The best part of the night was walking home in the snow

wat?

Just 'cos i like dem gams!

some cool cats

And I already ate

article

NOM

Oh. my. god!
That was an orgasmic dinner!
The garlic/mustard sauce was fantastic.
Strip loin steak, so juicy, such a deep crust!
Potatoes... crispy and good.
Tomato and red onions in a balsamic vinaigrette.

A BBC4 documentary on Verdi and a single cigarette to finish.

Why do people think I am hitting on them when all I want is for them to repeatedly tell me how awesome I am?

potatoes
+
steak with dijon/cracked pepper
+
light salad
+
beerss

14.4kbps

full afterburner

naked geometry

oddly reminds me of

Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics

And when you least expect it...

What ho, this frog appears to know my secrets!

these guys sound good

The Silent City 1080p HD from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

Not an invention.

This makes no sense.

not really catching up with a lot of these movies but oh hey...

Little Miss Sunshine
Bubba Ho-tep
Wild Zero

Why is this so funny?!

awesome, star trek streaming!!!

Beardmaster

Directly lifted from reddit

This public notice pronouncing General Leigh Read to be a coward was posted by Whig party leader William Tradewell in March, 1839, after Read refused to apologize or duel following an argument. General Read, a leading Democrat, remarked at the time that if he were going to fight someone, it would be the head of the Whigs, Colonel Augustus Alston.

Hearing this, Colonel Alston challenged Read to a duel. This offer was accepted and the duel set for December 12, 1839. Alston was a seasoned duelist and Read was considered to be as good as dead.

General Read chose the unusual "Yager" hunting rifle with a sensitive hair-trigger with which to duel. The over-confident Colonel Alston, unused to this heavy weapon, lost his balance and fired before he was able to aim. Read then calmly shot Alston in the chest, killing him.

Although the Alston-Read duel was considered "fair", Alston's grieving sisters thought of it as murder. They removed the bullet from Alston's body, and had it melted down and poured into a press to reshape it. They sent it to their older brother-insisting he avenge his brother's death using the same bullet. General Read was shot and killed by Willis Alston in April, 1841.

Górecki

daww, very sweet

Somtimes a dinner date feels like that

cool TNG pictures

man that's a lotta drugs

In need of attention.

celebrate festivus with an aluminium pole

the egg

Those mars landers ought to have mass spectrometers capable of identifying mercury in the environment, because it's well known that martian life must have used mercury like we use water -- otherwise they would never have dug all those Hg wells.

In future we'll leverage synergistic above board and across the piece adoption processes that create face time while simultaneously reducing feature creep in our front burner priorities.

Going forward, actionable items will commodotize our core competencies to the point we can drill down to create deliverables that gain traction in a granular market environment.

as improbable as it sounds, lots of good-fun sci fi ideas

http://therawness.com/myth-of-the-ghetto-alpha-male/

Notes from the day

So after murdering an entire day in idleness at work saw Terry Pratchett give is inaugural adjunct professorial talk. funny, warm lecture.

Later, documentary on portraiture

Gustave Courbet - Self Portrait, The Despairing Man

Edvard Munch - Self portrait in hell

awesome


So then finally decided to stay up and watch this movie Happy-go-lucky
Mike Leigh-> find some more of his films.
that movie made me happy. moreso than a movie has for sometime.

haha I'm a mess

also i have been told to seek out I am love
Will dig that out tomorrow...

Irish police. Too much force?

the mind boggles

more

Idle hands arfe the devil's play things

So bored. Spent yesterday afternoon on this sequence. (some steps omitted because I closed the tabs)
... was enjoyable, but nothing to do with work. Thanks to one of my new friends for the initial seed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humanism
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
http://www.gamestudies.org/0501/lindley/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/130849-post-structuralism-in-video-games/
http://www.molleindustria.org/ergon_logos/ergon_logos.html
http://www.the-foodist.com/recipes/obatzter-bavarian-cheese-cream-recipe/

Stuck inside of Dublin with the London blues again.

Mo-fucking-vember

Except for fallout: New Vegas

which has delivered 30 hours of gameplay so far. Up till 4 last night. Thank you funding cut so that I dont care about work any more!

terry gilliam short

there where did Weed Smokin' Jo come from?