None of this “which is longer” nonsense…
Trina just send me a link to the coolest optical illusion thingamy I’ve ever seen.
Go look -> http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
Add comment October 29th, 2005
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Macabre Visage FTW!
The site was vacant 48hrs ago, now there’s functioning and quite heavily modified WordPress, PHPBB2, a guild/character roster…
My eyes feel like they’re going to bleed!
Brighteyes
www.Macabre-Visage.com
God wordpress is easier to use than this clunky interface…
Add comment October 21st, 2005
Serenity: After ( Also: Coldplay )
Spoilers!!
There will be Serenity spoilers during this post. If you haven’t seen the film or the TV series, you’ll want to either avoid this post or just stick to the top half.
So I heard on Triple M that Coldplay are coming out sometime in the near future. Adam says that it’s not for many months, but I thought if I expressed an interest now then I wont miss out last time. Actually, last time I think I was in Canada, so I can hardly blame anyone but me for that one.
This is the spoilery bit.. below this line I can promise you that you’ll read something that you didn’t want to if you have an interest in seeing Serenity but haven’t seen it yet.
You have been warned.
Holy F$%& they killed him!
The End….
Kidding.. Kidding.
Well I went into the film excited, but mostly anxious. I had seen your comments and spoken to Adam, I knew that most people were happy, some were moreso than others, but there was a niggling feeling that Joss would do something I didn’t like in the opening minutes and piss me off for the whole film… something like a retcon of someone’s past.
Ooops…
All in all I liked the film. I liked that they didn’t go terribly out of their way to reintroduce all the characters, they were far more subtle about it than they were when the series rebooted after the pilot…
“Hello Sheppard, did the engineer introduce the Doctor and his crazy Sister to you?”
“Yes captain, now I’m off to preach to your wartime friend and her Husband the Pilot”
I loved Summer/River in the film. Before I went into the movie I saw the poster with her in front and didn’t like it. I came out of the film and wondered if I could get one either from josh ( wink wink ) or from that store in the city that sells movie posters. She was fantastic from beginning to end, especially the end. I just wish that she had been written with that same joy that she found at the end of the tv series, but obviously some things had to change.
I loved how the film looked. The rebuilt ship had only minor changes from what I could see, and I think I felt a little superior in that us fans could know that the med-bay should be a bit larger, or wonder how the captain would have replaced the broken engine part of the engine was all covered like it was.
Obviously there are things I wasn’t going to like though. The deaths for one… the second death was so very much like the end of Buffy. You take a lovable, flawed character and kill them in shocking circumstances with no real gain beyond that initial shock.
What else bugged me? Nathan Fillion’s performance was off in the beginning.. the timing that he normal has just didn’t quite click, but that was mostly just the comedic sections, which weren’t really the focus I think.
The music.. I can’t recall much of the score at all. I normally wouldn’t care but the music of Firefly was a very important factor in building the feel of the universe, there was a bit of this during the film, but it took a step back.
The Bad Guy… too similar superficially to Early from the final episode “Objects in Space”. If you’re going to have a physically intimidating black man swinging around punching people while wearing a jumpsuit, make it the same guy or don’t do it at all. There were some big differences between them, I can see that. Early was closer to River, he felt and touched and tasted everything, while The Operative felt nothing and was detatched from what he was doing.
So.. River’s Rescue Retcon, Nathan’s Comedic Timing, Lacklustre Score, Pointless Deaths, Recycled Badguy.. You’d think I didn’t like the film, but as I said, I did enjoy it.. I just had a few problems with it…
I think I need to see it again…
Spoilers are done now.. you can come back.. Hello?.. hello…
Add comment October 20th, 2005
New Banner!
I took this photo at Werribee Open Range Zoo, as soon as I saw this flower sitting in the middle of a growth of this strawlike grass I knew the shot would have enough horizontal space for a banner.
So, until I get bored it I’ve told the random dingus generator to only pick from 21 -> 21… enjoy 
Add comment October 16th, 2005
Warning!
When I wake up, I will have a cold.
At first I thought the feeling I had in the back of my nose was just because of the scented wax dealie melting happily on my shelves ( which, by the way, was why people kept saying how nice my place smelled last weekend at the BBQ ). Then I remembered exactly what this sensation meant, remembered that Trina and her flock have all been unwell..
So yeah.. 3x Multivitamin 1x C 1000mg 1x Zinc and about 2 litres of water at 2:20am… we’ll see how that goes…
Someone call during the weekend to make sure I’m not dead, or to help me if I decide that dead would be more pleasant.
Thanks
Add comment October 15th, 2005
The time is approaching…
Whenever I update or browse through the comment on my page I’m starting to feel that restlessness ( too many s’ ) that I’m sure gil and Pre have felt on many an occasion.
I think it is almost time for me to dust off the XHTML book, dig out those “PHP Basics” links and take a good hard look at what’s going on behind the screen of this page.
Trina’s comment from a few days ago highlighted that the evolution of this page hasn’t exactly been smooth. The code to display comments has changed but the inputs and database are still setup the old way, the archives page uses a different method of displaying comments from the main page, there’s still no preview function when posting, there’s no ability to put “safe” html in the comments, the back-end… would saying the back-end is shite be a little too punny? Well it is…
Looking at some new blogs recently I have begun to wonder if writing this shit myself isn’t akin to stabing oneself in the face, just so you can say you did it yourself… certainly things would be easier with some pre-fab system…
Anyway… I’ll struggle with that issue. In the meantime, does anyone have anything they wish the page would do that it doesn’t?
Oh crap.. I just read this post and realised this is one of those that’s going to end up with 0 Comments.
Oh well…
Add comment October 7th, 2005
Level 40
It’s a bit late in coming, I’m actually halfway through level 41 now, but I thought I’d announce that I ( finally ) hit level 40, and purchased my mount.
Brighteyes @ Level 40
Grey Kodo Mount in Mulgore
Also, if you haven’t already done so, please check your email. There should be an invite for the local-crew that read this…
Add comment October 7th, 2005
PA WOW
*giggle*
So glad that more people who read this know what i’m talking about than when I posted this, admittedly there’s about four times as many people playing WOW as there is playing GW.
p.s. I don’t pull aggro like that unless I’m in Dire Bear, which is normally a sign of an inept warrior or mtank anyway.
p.p.s. Not to say that i’m not inept as an mtank, coz I mostly am
Add comment October 1st, 2005