September 30, 2004
It's not just trolls these days...
How was I, a RPG geek if ever there was one, beaten to this by other bloggers?
Internet Message Board Wandering Monster Table
Tony, mugged by reality
Hip leftists everywhere have been saying, "What happened to you Tony Blair, you used to be cool!"
Tony responds:
When I hear people say: "I want the old Tony Blair back, the one who cares", I tell you something.
I don't think as a human being, as a family man, I've changed at all.
But I have changed as a leader.
I have come to realise that caring in politics isn't really about "caring".
It's about doing what you think is right and sticking to it.
So I do not minimise whatever differences some of you have with me over Iraq and the only healing can come from understanding that the decision, whether agreed with or not, was taken because I believe, genuinely, Britain's future security depends on it.
There has been no third way, this time.
Careful Mr Blair, you know what they call a liberal mugged by reality? The dreaded 'n' word.
Neoconservative.
September 28, 2004
Well, you said it...
Interesting headline from the Australian.
Preschool crucial for kids and Latham.
Of course it is.
September 26, 2004
I have a bad feeling about this...
There seems to be Star Wars political allusions popping up everywhere at the moment. No, I don't mean the Michael Moore = Jabba the Hutt. That's waaay too obvious.
First Latham reckons he's Luke Skywalker, and Howard's Darth Vader. Well, Latham, I have news for you. In their first encounter, Vader kicked Skywalker's puny, whinging white arse. Is that the correlation you were shooting at?
Now Americans are seeing parallels between John Kerry and C3PO.
My contribution. Jar Jar Binks = Jacques Chirac.
No, it doesn't need to make sense - but the French loved Jerry Lewis...
Nearly...
Bit better, now to fix up the big blank margin at the side at the fact that the calendar is overlapping the header now...?!?
September 25, 2004
Me Kud rool gud
I'm currently fiddling around with the stylesheets, so the page may have occasional bouts of lameness.
September 22, 2004
Zeropa Again!
Europeans love to make references to Americans as dumb, crass, gun-loving warmongers, but at least they haven't elected communists and neo-nazis in record numbers for their parliament.
Germans, these are the people celebrated idiot Michael Moore called "smarter" than Americans.
Give me a fucking break. Germans, pull your finger out. Electing loonies won't solve your economic, demographic and international problems.
SW Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Ah, the good movie with the dodgy name.
Again, fucking fantastic transfer to DVD. Many little corrections, as in SW4.
Big Changes?
Palpatine in Episode V finally looks and sounds like Palpatine, rather than a chimp* with the voice of Clive Revill.
The hologram looks pretty swish, indeedy.
The dialogue is a little different, for reasons which are explained
1) in the commentary
2) In Episode 3
*Note: I'm not joking here. The original Palpy is a chimp/woman amalgam with a man's voice. Scary, I know.
Update: Boba Fett now sounds like his dad, rather than a cheap rip-off of Clint Eastwood. I read in a forum somewhere that some fanboys are having a whinge because "He doesn't sound scary anymore?"
Maori guys aren't scary? Come down to the fucking western suburbs of Sydney, mate!
SW Episode IV: A NEW HOPE
It begins!
Regular updates will follow as I watch the newly remastered and special fanboy-nostalgia-tweakin' version of the original Star Wars.
Update: First things first: Colour, sound and general look and feel of the transfer is fantastic. The movie hasn't looked this good since 1977. In fact the box says (c) 1977/1997/2004, so I guess it basically is a new movie in that respect.
Changes: Basically the 1997 SE version except more dodgy matte lines have been cleaned up, some colour correction on sabers and other things, and...yay! They replaced the dodgy CGI work on the Jabba with one that is the same as the TPM/ROTJ Jabba.
Best change ever!
So far, so good.
Next up, ESB!
Addendum: I'd forgotten how annoying I find C-3PO. He whines so much in this movie. He is *dare I say it* the Jar Jar of the Original Trilogy.
Only the fuzzy red-tinted glare of nostalgia makes me relax on him.
Politics, Schmolitics
Ah, let's see where the political world is up to,
Despite the best fantasies of the Australian, European and US press, GWB is looking forward to a second term. John Kerry, on the other hand, is still stuck in Cambodia, 1972, and CBS has been reduced to peddling forged documents to discredit the President.
In Australia, Latham still has a good chance to succeed as PM, but his general batshit craziness may throw a spanner in the works, especially as the campaign continues. He's well on the way to being the "magic pudding" man of Australian Politics.
The Greens are still unrepetentant idiot socialists.
The Democrats...well, who gives a fuck? Not like anyone will vote for them anyway.
Now, on to more important matters.
Fanboys, start your crying!
Very soon, I will begin my review of the Star Wars DVD set. I'll be starting with the three movies - IV, V, VI, then doing the bonus disk.
As Grievous would say: I will grant you a glorious death....Prepare!
September 17, 2004
Woohoo!
Got the Sims2. Currently busy breeding the people in order to create the ultimate superhuman...
EDIT: You know the best part of this game? Create Sims based on family and friends, and breed unlikely pairings together...heh, heh, heh...
September 14, 2004
Uh...Channel Ten...
Careful Channel Ten, you're only a year or so of promoting "Lolicon".
Not bad for sixteen though...
(Eergh, I feel so dirty...)
PS: Is it just me, or does Andrew G have a mullet?
September 10, 2004
Mmm...metaphor
Being an Indy fan, this metaphor was fucking fantastic:
Watching Mr Kerry try to take on Mr Bush brings to mind a classic moment in that cult film of the 1980s, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones is trapped in a back-alley in an Egyptian souk.
A crowd closes in as a giant Arab steps forward wielding a scimitar. Snick-snack it goes through the air, faster and faster. The audience tenses. Indie shudders.
Then he draws a pistol from his belt and shoots the Arab in the forehead. Game over. The crowd drifts away.
Such is America's polarisation that the crowd enveloping the two presidential candidates is not yet drifting away. But, notwithstanding his own twists over Iraq, Mr Bush plays a convincing straight shooter. His pistol is already drawn and all the while Mr Kerry seems happier whirling a scimitar than reaching for a gun.
From the Telegraph
Fuck.
Scum-sucking terrorists have struck again.
Dumb fuck idiot leftists have begun the "Why do they hate us?" refrain.
It's quite simple.
They are nihlistic sociopaths who want to install a global Islamic caliphate, and they will kill all that get in their way.
And the SMH? It's a fucking piece of shit. They're running a fucking poll on which party it benefits. SMH used to be a quality paper. Now its a fucking lefty rag.
More coverage from Tim Blair.
September 09, 2004
Coming soon...
On the 22nd, I'll be reviewing the new Ep (IV-VI) SW DVDs. Complete with the changes that will make fanboys sob into their Luke Skywalker hanky...
In the words of General Grievous: PREPARE!
Friends, friends forever...
The guy with the dorky looking glasses is Jacques Chirac, PM of France in the 70s.
The guy with the porn moustache is Saddam Hussein.
They are standing in the nuclear power station France built for Iraq.
Draw your own conclusions...
As a note, the left seems to be obsessed with a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand. This picture is far more damaging. Why is it never shown...
September 08, 2004
Hah Hah!
WASHINGTON - Porter Goss, nominated to be the next CIA director, took a hard line on interrogations in the war on terror earlier this year, saying “Gee, you’re breaking my heart” to complaints that Arab men found it abusive to have women guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
From here.
September 07, 2004
Memo to the Left
Memo to the Left: "Bush is dumb!" is not an election winning slogan.
Neither is "Bush is Hitler!"
September 06, 2004
Work...ehh
Work is very dull at the moment.
Welfare. Excitement.
September 04, 2004
The Stupid Candidate
There is a stupid candidate running for the Presidential race.
And judging on Kerry's reaction to Bush's speech, it's John Forbes Kerry.
Democrat Faithful: Rock us, Dukakis!
Kerry: YEEEEEEEEEEARRGGHHH!!!
September 01, 2004
Conventional Thinking
Been comparing the Republican and Democrat conventions...
Seriously, no contest.
Why did the Democrats put that old hack Jimmy Carter on the stage? "In a time of crisis in the Middle East - here's the guy who turned Iran into a theocracy!"
Yes, Ben Affleck, you certainly "enervated" the base.
Update: Ha!
John Kerry, Democrats, you've been owned - by one of your own.
Deal with it.