I'm sure there are a few people reading this journal who will appreciate today's episode of Hijinks Ensue about Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's new TV series, due to air next year on Fox.
The BBC are reporting that the government are trying out a new scheme for keeping civil servants' desks tidy. It involves marking out an area of their desk with black tape and telling them they have to keep their pens and things inside that space. People who have read Dave Langford's book The Leaky Establishment are unlikely to be surprised by this scheme.
I thought I'd give it a try at the office to see if it would fit in with my neat, well-organised, and highly efficient workflow: ( Read more... ) I think it may need a little fine-tuning. Perhaps if I put the gaffer tape around the entire building instead?
The Internets are very quiet this morning, so here for your amusement I bring you the Morris Minor subplot from Bad Taste:
I've cut out all the gory bits and swearing so it should be safe to show to your visiting grandkids or whatever. The background music is rather disjoint because I've had to cut out big sections between the scenes, but it still makes up a surprisingly coherent little story.
In case you haven't heard of it before (though I suspect most people reading my LJ probably already own a copy), Bad Taste is a great comedy-horror-scifi movie, and the first creation of Peter Jackson who is now rightly famous as the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you like comedy horror with plenty of blood and guts thrown in, I can highly recommend you track down the full movie (it was released on DVD a few years ago - try Amazon). It was filmed on a shoestring budget in New Zealand in the mid-eighties. Apparently the Moggy belonged to a friend's wife, and they'd accidentally torn the bumper off while trying to tow a too-heavy trailer, hence why it came off so easily when the alien grabbed it.
I just ran across an excellent Radio 4 programme about science-related comedy. It's currently available via "listen again" but I'm not sure for how long, so grab it while it's still hot: Ha Ha... Science.
I picked this up at a Model Engineering exhibition many years ago and stumbled across it again in an old coat pocket last night: If you found yourself laughing hysterically at it, this is a warning sign that you may be an engineer [shudder]. Tracy Tools are still around BTW, but they don't sell bolts any more.
Bond: Live action reenactment of a level from the Goldeneye N64 game
I've never played the Goldeneye N64 game, but I've played a few other first person shoot-em-ups. I was a huge fan of the Duke Nukem franchise - I once bought an N64 just so I could play Duke Nukem 64. So I found this video pretty funny. The dull, repetitive background music, the stupid enemy AI (particularly the soldier who tries to run off a balcony), the clumsy movements, the player who repeatedly bumps into a garage door instead of ducking under it, the soldiers who fire dozens of shots from close range but somehow manage to miss, the slight delay between hitting an enemy and the enemy reacting to it, the corpses that mysteriously vanish, the stream of identical bad guys...
