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Steeeeve

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  • Birthday 08/04/1982

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  1. Happy Birthday, Steve, hope you're having a great day!

  2. Happy Birthday Steve!

  3. Happy birthday!!

  4. I really liked the first half but the second half seemed a bit disjointed. Somebody mentioned before that they thought some episodes had seemed rushed but this was the first time I had felt that way this series. Still good though. I've kind of gone off watching Doctor Who Confidential after. They just seem to be padding it out a lot. Could do with being cut down to half an hour I think.
  5. Yay! I thought I was the only one for a while there. I kind of want this trailer to be the last I hear of the film before it comes out. It seems like one of those films where the less you know the better. Hngfnhngghn so excited!
  6. Everyone should pleeeaaaaase watch this trailer if they haven't already http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44995 I could not be more excited about a film. I'm hoping this turns out to be the epic sci-fi the trailer and Nolan's track record make me think it will be. Nolan given the budget to make any film he wants. Sigh. I cannot wait.
  7. What's worse is when you tell the person that and they tell you to relax/chill out/not worry so much. As if they think they're just being a free spirit rather than an absolute *%&!
  8. People telling me their life story. To be fair this one's usually saved for when I'm already in a bad mood. Obviously I don't mind friendly people but it always seems to be that when I have a million things to do at work a customer will grab me who insists on telling me about the work they're having done on their house, the ins and outs of life in their family and a thousand other things I don't care about. I have to keep telling myself they don't know they're holding me up and that I'm just being grumpy. It rarely helps my quietly boiling rage.
  9. I'd agree with him on some stuff but not on others. There are a lot of deus ex machinas in Doctor Who (I have moaned many times about the amount of them in RTD's run) but I always found Moffat's episodes flowed more logically. Maybe his quality has taken a bit of a dip now he's writing so many shows rather than just one every now and again but that was kind of expected. I was thinking the Doctor was getting a bit god like and I think that's one reason why Moffat's had Amy and other characters saving the day sometimes. He is supposed to be a one man army still but then a few of the Timelords would be the same if they were still around wouldn't they? And, sorry, but this is Terry Pratchett complaining about a series being ludicrous and breaking the rules of narrative?...ok.
  10. I learnt that jumping from heights accounted for less than 2% of reported suicides in the US in 2005 but over 51% of reported suicides in Hong Kong in 2006. Cheery. On a lighter note I also learnt this joke: How do you titillate an ocelot? You oscillate its tit a lot. I am a fan of stupid jokes.
  11. Oooh I'm looking forward to getting The Stars My Destination now. I might make it the book I take away on holiday in June. One book I just finished which is in the SF Masterworks range is Grass by Sherri S. Tepper (I may be spelling that wrong but I'm in bed now, not going to move). It was absolutely superb. It kind of reminds me of the Coldfire series (don't let that put you off Raven ) but that may be because I haven't read much fantasy/sci-fi till this last year so I'm just reaching out for the most similar thing. Also when I say it reminds me of Coldfire it also very much doesn't...basically ignore me and just read the book. A nice mysterious planet which may hold the key to curing a plague along with a few other unknowns thrown into the mix. Tres good.
  12. Read some of Grass by Sheri S. Tepper and bought Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life by Len Fisher.
  13. Just finished The Angry Island by A.A. Gill. I was enjoying it until about halfway through when he just sort of became hateful. I mean the whole book mocks the English which is fine but then he was trying to say that the English love of gardening somehow proves we're kind of fascistic and other things like that. After that I found it hard to take him seriously, especially since he was contradicting himself and just stating mental opinions as obvious facts. It still had its moments though. Maybe the bits I didn't like were tongue in cheek and I just didn't get it.
  14. I don't know if he considers himself British but I'm going to steal him anyway and say Richard E. Grant. And if he's not our national treasure (when written like that I can see why some people don't like the term) then he's at least someone I'd like to have a drink with. Of lemonade of course.
  15. This is one of those films where they changed it completely. The second half of the film isn't really similar to the second half of the book from what I can remember. But I think they're equally great. The fact that Miyazaki did change so much means you can't really compare them, just enjoy each of them for what they are.
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