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A quick update while I take a break from doing work (lab report, fun; mathe­ma­tics notes, fun; engi­nee­ring mecha­nics ques­tions; fun, elec­tro­nics com­pu­ter simu­la­tion, fun; fluids and energy notes, fun). Have recently been fee­ling very fat — although phy­si­cally I may not look it, I feel a time will come when I will. Lack of sporty rou­ti­nes and an abun­dance of unhealthy eating makes me feel rather ill and unfit. Although I do take my awe­some vita­min pills and eat apples.

In these last two days I have purcha­sed myself some purty DVDs at some purty pri­ces;
Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike, £9.99
The Eye by The Pang Brothers, £9.99
Leon by Luc Bes­son, £8.49
Pulp Fic­tion by Quen­tin Taran­tino — 2 disc spe­cial edi­tion, £8.99

I am quite happy with my purcha­ses and hope to add to my collec­tion many more with time. Feel free to pay­pal me lots and lots of cash to fund this collec­tion, in return I will tell you how happy I am that you have hel­ped out a fellow human being. Ain’t life grand. And like a butterfly.

Last Fri­day I went to see the most won­der­ful “Kill Bill” at the local art cinema. I had ori­gi­nally plan­ned to take my special-lady friend, howe­ver ended up going with two mates ins­tead — for which I am very glad. This bloodshed slaugh­ter house of a movie would not have impres­sed and could have tain­ted the vie­wing for myself. Howe­ver, that said, the movie was abso­lu­tely one hun­dred per­cent pure won­der­ful­ness. It pro­vi­ded everything I wan­ted, was everything I had hoped for and expec­ted and gave me a thirst for more QT. Review coming soon to a web­site near you (if I get around to it any­time soon). I also plan to purchase the sound­track asap, Nancy Sinatra’s bang bang track cou­pled with the “Tomo­yasu Hotei — Battle Without Honor Or Huma­nity” song is simply a must have. My only fear is that I will grow tired of it through cons­tant lis­te­ning. Shame. 

Oh another note to point out; a nice little uni­ver­sity deal on pos­ters sees me with a Kill Bill, a Bat­man and a Matrix Reloa­ded pos­ter for a top notch prive of £5. That was nice. Im loving them. Now all I need is a thun­der­cats t-shirt. 

Last Thurs­day was spent very cons­truc­ti­vely watching the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Exten­ded edi­tion for three and a half hours, shortly follo­wed by the Lord of the Rings: Two Towers Exten­ded edi­tion, another well spent three and a half hours. The TTEE was a great impro­ve­ment on the ori­gi­nal and I loved the inc­lu­sion of more Merry and Pip­pin sce­nes and moving trees.

Yes­ter­day I bought;

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaugh­ter House 5
“One of the mas­ter alche­mists of modern Ame­ri­can Fic­tion”
“A work of keen lite­rary artistry”

Pri­so­ner of war, opto­me­trist, time-traveller — these are the life roles of Billy Pil­grim, hero of this latter-day Pilgrim’s Pro­gress, a mira­cu­lously moving, bit­ter and funny story of inno­cence faced with apo­calypse, in the most ori­gi­nal anti-war novel since Catch-22

Just though I should let you know that.

The makers of Look Around You have been com­mis­sio­ned by the BBC to pro­duce a Depen­da­ble Video Dis­cus (‘DVD’) of the series.

This is the first time this pro­cess has been applied to the mar­ket place and the tech­no­logy is somewhat in its infancy, hence each ‘DVD’ mea­su­res appro­xi­ma­tely 70 inches in dia­me­ter and weighs around 600 kilo­gram­mes. Howe­ver it is hoped that, within time, each dis­cus will be small enough and light enough to be carried by two men.

The ‘DVD’ pla­yer is often limi­ted by regio­nal set­tings. The unit pic­tu­red above will work only in Lincolnshire.

Each ‘DVD’, manu­fac­tu­red from rein­for­ced lead, con­tains all the expe­ri­men­tal data, both aural and visual, from the popu­lar science series, Look Around You.

Further­more, each dis­cus con­tains a num­ber of addi­tio­nal fea­tu­res — a dou­ble length 20 minute module, Cal­cium; the pro­gramme makers’ com­men­tary; the full length pop video to the smash hit pop song ‘Little Mouse’ and edu­ca­tio­nal and infor­ma­tive pages from Ceefax.

In short, it’s everything the modern science stu­dent could hope for.

Look Around You