life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

I'm sure by now everyone has seen this.

( DW Specials possible spoilers )

I have bought a computer.

The filming for Half Blood Prince started this week. I'm quite looking forward to the film coming out—the films seem more important now there are no more books to come (woes).

I hope they got Daniel Radcliffe to grow his hair out a bit. Harry doesn't have tidy hair! Plus, DR has grown up looking like my cousin Connor, especially with short hair and without the Harry glasses. Just when he got to the age to be fanciable too :-P

Making Money is alleged to be out in the UK tomorrow, huzzah. I love Moist von Lipwig and I'm really looking forward to another book about him and friends.

NTL or BT?

Wires, wireless or no network?

Goodness, life is hard when one is incapable of making up one's mind.

Last week I went to see OotP before it went out of the cinema. It was obviously very compressed from the book-I always finds it helps to think of the films as a very complex animated .gif illustrating the books, that way I can think of the Quidditch and Ron and Hermione being prefects and chocolate in the library all happening off the edge of the page.

My brothers aid that Umbridge wasn't ugly enough, but I didn't mind that. I thought that the contrast between her being all pink and fluffy and so evil was  very effective. I especially liked the 6 spoons of sugar in her tea. And I love cats, but those kittens on the plates were the creepiest-looking felines.

I missed the Quidditch-well, I missed seeing Ron play Quidditch. I hope that  they include it in HBP, which they might, as there's less plot in that book, and I'm sure they'd want to use the trio kids as much as they can seeing that there are so many flashbacks to young Tom.

I don't like the twins much, although they aren't as bad in the films. It's rather sad to see them doing everything together, knowing that in a couple of years Fred will be dead.

I was watching PS on video a few days ago, and I noticed the contrast between the films. Not just Tiny Squeaky Trio, but the early films are brighter. I thought it was just the change in the uniforms, but it's the whole colour palate, I think. At this rate DH will be all in assorted shades of black.

I always like the little bits around the edges that show there's a school, and a world, happening beyond the Trio, like the kids having music going in the Gryffindor common room, and the Fudge banner in the Ministry, and the boy and girl kissing that Umbridge blasts apart. Also, nice forshadowing for the snogfest in HBP.

Who is this Nigel bloke? I seem to remember him vaguely from GoF; is he a replacement for Dennis Creevey? BTW, I wonder was JKR thinking of Dennis instead of Colin when she killed him off in DH. Colin was sixth year and had to be either 17 or within two months of it, and was hardly likely to be still a midget.

Is anyone else sick to the back teeth of Big Brother? Please will it just go away!

I'm also sick of hearing about the Snow Patrol gig in Bangor tomorrow. My younger brother is currently talking of nothing else, and neither is the radio.

Suppose elerrina_amanya and I were buying a laptop or whatever they're called these days.

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Apparently it is possible to get student discount on a Mac. I was going to say I needed more info on Macs, but I suppose a new Windows machine would have Vista, of which I have heard little and none good. When Microsoft came up with an OS that mostly works, why can't they just stick with it?

Look, we can now turn off V-Gifts.

This has been a summer with weddings. There was Jennifer's, and Andrew & Pamela's and Alex's. I didn't go to Alex's, although they wanted people to go up to the church to help with the singing. They had a marquee in their garden for the reception.

We did go to Andrew's, all of us, which was kind of odd. The reception was at the Galgorm which is a rather pretty setting with waterfalls, although it's harder to find than Corrick and involved driving through a no entry sign. The meal was good and served with almost military precision.

Oh, and the bridesmaids wore purpley red dresses, but in different styles, and Pamela's dress came from Canada so it didn't have the all-prevailing bandage bodice. It was white with silver embroidery. I never know the names for the materials, so I always end up saying 'Sort of creamy, floaty...'

Oooh, look! msscribe returns!

And then real scary shit happens like some asshole starts posting my medical history and insurance info, which I did formally launch an investigation into. (Another reason I haven’t said anything) by contacting my local police department. It went nowhere. They got me information about CharlotteLennox, yep, real first and last name, and she’s lucky I’m not the crazy bitch she makes me out to be.

Scared yet, Charlotte?

LOLZ.