Apparently this is old, but it’s new to me and very awesome.

Hi all, been a bit busy and such, but I have a few minutes spare while the old PowerMac G4 installs Tiger behind me.

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Yep, Dr. Horrible was well worth watching.

With my freeze ray, I will STOP… the world.

Institutionalised stupidity has invaded our lunch room and I now have to suffer a notice above the boiling water tap saying ‘CAUTION: BOILING WATER’ and another at the coffee machine saying ‘CAUTION: HOT WATER AND STEAM’.

I am seriously considering making some more warning notices to ensure the kitchen is truly safe. For example:

On the fridge - CAUTION: COLD
On the cupboard - CAUTION: BEWARE OF FALLING CROCKERY
On the cutlery drawer - CAUTION: POINTY THINGS
On the floor - CAUTION: FLOOR

I mean, we can’t be too careful.

I caught up on a couple of DVDs this week, films that I have been meaning to watch for freaking years, but never got around to.

First off was Ronin on Tuesday night. Without the car chases, it’s a 7, but the chases alone make it an 8. So kinetic, so real. No CGI, so you feel the weight of the cars. De Niro wears a face of pure strain behind the wheel, which is certainly the most realistic depiction of somebody struggling to control a ton of wayward metal. I’ve ripped the DVD to listen to the commentary, which is apparently all about the making of the chase sequences.

Last night I watched the original Dutch version of The Vanishing (Spoorloos) from 1988. The blurb suggested that the secret of the missing girlfriend was ‘more chilling than I could imagine’, but it turned out that my guess was far worse. Chaining somebody up and slowly - over the course of many months - feeding on their body parts in front of them would be a launching point for me. If you can’t think of something worse than that, go back to the drawing board. Still a great film, though.