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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