Real Update

That is an impressive degree of skanky, manky, foul weather out there. I'm almost enjoying it again, especially the looks I got when I turned up in the coffee shop next door¹ wearing no coat, no sleeves - just jeans and a tshirt. I got stared at, bigtime.

Last night was the Age of Legends dinner (to be held each year hereafter as close as possible to the 17th of November). It was good - all the food worked out perfectly, and everyone managed the in-character thing admirably. Of course, olethros, inannajones and I have years of practice by now, even though olethros was playing two characters at once.

I'm just realising that I've never worked so intensively before as I have this year; anywhere else I've worked has had meetings, other people who could be delegated to / have work traded with them, and hasn't been completely expressed to the world via its website. Here, the website IS the public face of the company, and that makes a huge difference, as does the small tech staff - there're five of us, and I'm the only real web-developer as such. And I'm realising as I hadn't before that holidays are essential - the longest time off I've had this year when I wasn't ill was a long weekend in September. So I'm really looking forward to Finland at the end of December.

1 - it's actually three doors down, but the places in between are an employment agency and an Abrakebabra, which by common agreement hereabouts do not exist.

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There's a very strange news item on Wired News about an attack on a Lego fan site for the use of Maori words on that site. Now, it's not that they were saying anything about the Maori. Indeed, it's reasonably likely that most of the users of that site didn't even know the words were Maori. I would have said they were all Polynesian, had anyone asked me, and I'm guessing I'm one of very few people who'd have even a vague idea about it.

Yet the Lego fan site has been taken down. I think that's going a bit too far in the cause of respect for native traditions and so on. In fact, it smacks of Scientology.

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I can tell when four o'clock rolls around, without looking at a clock. That's when my brain just stops working. Anything done after that happens in a kind of mental slow motion. I used to think it was the coffee running down, but I have a decent sized mug of good, almost-cold coffee here, and it isn't making one whit of difference.

There's a Vodafone ad up in Opera at the minute. It's in German. It says "Style Dein Handy! Mit über 2500 Top-logos und vielem mehr!". I find this amusing, thus demonstrating the brain-shut-down-ness mentioned above.

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I just saw an ad for an upcoming Disney apparently called "Treasure Planet". There was a flying ship in the picture. Anyone know anything about it?

(Flying ships rock, btw. They're one of my favourite images ever.)

Treasure Planet

I just saw a trailer for Treasure Planet. It's got rocket-powered flying galleons. A fantasy city built on the concave side of a crescent floating in space. Cyborgs. Flying skateboards. Swashbuckling. It's Spelljammer crossed with Tales from the Floating Vagabond. With music by one of the Goo Goo Dolls.

I am so going to see this.