Heh. How sad am I? 11 o’clock showing on the day it’s released… at least I didn’t go at midnight – and it was a welcome break from revision. That said, there can’t have been 20 people in the cinema – the Gala Theatre/Cinema in Durham is the most bizarre cinema I’ve seen – they [...]
Yeah but no but
May 17, ’05
10:17 PM
A teacher was explaining how a double negative, when spoken, always gives a positive.
This, he said, is true in every language across the world. However, there is no example in any culture where a double positive gives a negative!
Looking proud, the teacher sits down, and there followed a short silence, followed by a sarcastic voice: [...]
I hate being right all the time
May 16, ’05
12:10 AM
Saving Private Ryan Apocalypse Now The Great Escape Schindler’s List
The Longest Day came in at number 20.
He chose … poorly
May 15, ’05
10:09 PM
What an evening of televisual entertainment!
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (easily the best of the three), followed by another two-and-a-quarter hours of the Greatest War Films in the World of All Time Ever.
And to think that I could (should?) be revising. *sigh*
Anyway – another Arabic exam tomorrow. Translating passages between Arabic and English (one [...]
Countdown
May 14, ’05
9:30 PM
Wah hey! Another Channel 4 “Hundred Best” programme.
This one is something like the “Hundred Greatest War Films“.
We’re only at number 98 at the moment – 100 was Rambo, and 98 one I’ve never heard of.
But at 99, we find The Eagle Has Landed. The first book I ever borrowed from the Nottingham High School library. [...]
“I’m a prototype. You can tell, can’t you?”
May 1, ’05
9:59 PM
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is an absolutely brilliant fantstic super-duper film. Full stop. See it!
From the Busby-esque beginning sequence with the dolphins (“so long and thanks for all the fish”) to the finale with the mice (if you don’t know the story … don’t ask!), it’s a non-stop romp through one of the [...]
Blogging
Apr 19, ’05
11:56 PM
Blogging [...] is the twenty-first century equivalent of hanging around railway stations, writing pithy but erudite descriptions of the passing trains.
So?
I can think of only one person who does both…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Blogging (at the iTunes Music Store)
Tom Hecht, j’accuse
Apr 17, ’05
9:37 AM
Gah. Annoying German pop. Worse even than Die Prinzen. And someone has pointed me in the direction of a particularly annoying example…
A small Egyptian crocodile seems to be very popular in Germany at the moment…
Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil. Komm aus Ägypten, das liegt direkt am Nil. Zuerst lag ich [...]
It’s a veritable smorgasbord. Sun. Rain. Thunder. Hail. Snow. Cold. Wind. Not worth going to work really.
Apr 16, ’05
12:30 AM
This post is coming soon, yo. Soon, meaning “when I am not falling asleep on the keyboard.” It’s here now.
Last week, Newsnight decided to replace its nightly market reports with a weather bulletin. Not a hugely important change, you might think. Well, it appears that the viewers of Newsnight think otherwise.
In a text message poll, [...]