After several weeks (maybe even months) of desk preparation, I finally have a finished surface where I've been able to permanently set up my new iMac (yep the one from mid-March). It's a wonderful thing. I can finally take this blogging thing a bit more seriously - in the loosest sense of the word.
"Why has it taken you so long to paint a friggin desk?". Well, dear reader, that is a long and tortuous story, filled with intrigue, despair, several cans of wasted paint and hair. Not my hair, roller hair. A family member gave me some roller sleeves (he's a decorator) and said they would give a great finish, but every time they just deteriorated whilst being use, thereby ruined the finish and contaminated the paint. It's still a bit shit in my opinion. Well not as great as I was aiming for is probably a bit more fair. It looks awesome until you get close enough to see/feel the fibres under the surface...
Still, we can finally use our spare room! And set up all our IT goodness! And tidy up all our other stuff (booooo)!
Oh and in other news....
A girl in work asked if I could replace her iPhone screen after the miraculous job I performed on mine. I agreed but when I opened it, a connector actually fell out of the phone. Totally not my fault, but now the bloody ear piece won't work.
Screen is perfect tho! ;)
Unfortunately while trying to repair the unforeseen problem, I killed my own iPhone. Proper DEAD. No screen activity, no sound, no iTunes recognition, nothin'. I only opened it to see exactly where the connector had originally sat. Have no idea how I killed it, but I did. At least I only have to wait a month (or two!) until the next iPhone rolls along... not that I needed an excuse to upgrade :D
Other than that, some tit called Chloe a "sensless [sic] bitch" and a skank and told her that she should "fuck off and die" on Facebook. Yeh, I've posted. But I've not threatened the prick yet, so I'm showing progression with my anger control issues! Yay go me! And thank you random knobber for testing my resolve! And Chloe, just cos I haven't planned to rip out his throat with my teeth, it doesn't mean I love you any less! xxxxxx ;)
However, he IS working at the Chester Races 5th - 7th May.............................. ;)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Friday, 2 April 2010
I wanna KICK-ASS!!!!!
Just got back from watching Kick-Ass and, o m g I so wanna go get suited up and get out there and right some wrongs!!!
What an outstanding film. Not without flaws, but they are paled by the sheer awesomeness that is the rest of it. As a confessed geek, I know that so many people (just like me) have at one point (or maybe many points) stood in front of a mirror, busting moves worthy of taking down super-villains. Just like Dave (the eponymous Kick Ass). And therein lies the genius of this film that assures it's place in the Geekdom Hall of Fame - there is so much in those 105 minutes that comic fans and superhero lovers can relate to. OK so I have yet to don a wetsuit and get stabbed in the gut, but the dream is there!!! (??!?)
Which makes you think, or at least it makes ME think. What if. Not like "what if I dressed up and went vigilante style on some crims". What if people didn't turn the other cheek. This is what drives Dave to the lengths he goes to; when people get mugged and others see but pretend not too. When people get beaten but the passerby fails to step in. Hell, even when someone falls over and no one offers a hand. What if. What if the third party spoke up? What if the twenty people watching someone getting beaten all stepped in? The three guys laying into the guy on the ground sure as hell wouldn't hang around.
The film also answers this to a certain extent - we're all too afraid to lose what we have, be that by humiliation, injury or (god forbid) death. Which is understandable. The problem is that by doing nothing we DO lose something - a piece of our humanity, our society and even our self-respect.
When Dave faces the above situation, he utters a couple of lines which I wish everyone on this planet could take into their hearts and believe in. When asked if he would die for this guy that he doesn't even know he replies "three assholes, laying it in one guy while everyone else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me?!!? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!"
Unfortunately in the real world where our souls have already been devalued by modern life, losing a small part of our humanity can be more appealing than losing everything else. I'm not preaching - I'm the same.
Well, maybe just a little different.
What an outstanding film. Not without flaws, but they are paled by the sheer awesomeness that is the rest of it. As a confessed geek, I know that so many people (just like me) have at one point (or maybe many points) stood in front of a mirror, busting moves worthy of taking down super-villains. Just like Dave (the eponymous Kick Ass). And therein lies the genius of this film that assures it's place in the Geekdom Hall of Fame - there is so much in those 105 minutes that comic fans and superhero lovers can relate to. OK so I have yet to don a wetsuit and get stabbed in the gut, but the dream is there!!! (??!?)
Which makes you think, or at least it makes ME think. What if. Not like "what if I dressed up and went vigilante style on some crims". What if people didn't turn the other cheek. This is what drives Dave to the lengths he goes to; when people get mugged and others see but pretend not too. When people get beaten but the passerby fails to step in. Hell, even when someone falls over and no one offers a hand. What if. What if the third party spoke up? What if the twenty people watching someone getting beaten all stepped in? The three guys laying into the guy on the ground sure as hell wouldn't hang around.
The film also answers this to a certain extent - we're all too afraid to lose what we have, be that by humiliation, injury or (god forbid) death. Which is understandable. The problem is that by doing nothing we DO lose something - a piece of our humanity, our society and even our self-respect.
When Dave faces the above situation, he utters a couple of lines which I wish everyone on this planet could take into their hearts and believe in. When asked if he would die for this guy that he doesn't even know he replies "three assholes, laying it in one guy while everyone else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me?!!? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!"
Unfortunately in the real world where our souls have already been devalued by modern life, losing a small part of our humanity can be more appealing than losing everything else. I'm not preaching - I'm the same.
Well, maybe just a little different.
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