Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

posted by Jaitu at 08:15

I should probably spend a little time posting something more consequential or at least personal on here. Or I should take the time to update BabySteps with our scan photos or a recording of the heartbeat. Or just stick a quick post on Playing.Catch-Up to bring it up to date with CoD:WaW, PoP, The Maw, Peggle, GoW2 and whatever else I played since the last post. Or put some new designs on the RTDL2 Shop and update the shop blog.
Instead though I'm just going to post a synopsis of the Star Wars trilogy as told by someone who has only seen bits and pieces of the movies.

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Speed, Speeder, Speedest

posted by Jaitu at 19:05

Never mind the 'interestingly' styled G-Wiz electric 'car'.
What you really want is a full-size, all electric and almost as practical real Landspeeder. Capable of 25mph and several miles on a single charge this has to be one of the more desirable fully electric vehicles around. Sadly it is, of course, a one off.
More info, pics and video at http://www.reallandspeeder.com/

Echo Three to Echo Seven

posted by Jaitu at 08:37

Having spent the last week developing a progressively worsening throat infection I'm now on hold to my GP in the vain hope of getting an appointment today. Their hold music is a monophonic collection of classical classics but played as though it was a doorbell arrangement at half the original tempo. Not only this but rarely are more than four or fives notes played before the pre-recorded overly long "We're all busy please continue to hold" type message kicks in (also seemingly spoken at a decreased rate to make it easier to understand but just coming across as patronising.)

I'm sat here in the outfit I have adopted for the weekend. This includes but is not limited to a baseball cap and hoodie with a five foot square fleece blanket folded length ways and worn like a scarf. This leaves me looking like I'm about to hop on the back of a Tauntaun and brave the blizzards of Hoth to hunt down an overdue Luke.