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eBook ripoff
As I have a handful of M&S vouchers and money from Christmas I was perusing the M&S site to see what they had. One thing that caught my eye was the Sony eBook reader. It’s not cheap at £200+, but what’s worse is that the eBooks are often more expensive than the paper equivalent. For example the latest Jeremy Clarkson book is £10 in hardback, and £14 in electronic format.
I think I’ll stick with killing trees for the moment.
#20 – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Having just finished a run-through the Harry Potter films, I’ll see if I can polish of this lengthy trilogy over the remainder of Christmas and New Year.
Update: I slept through most of it.
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#36 – Apocalypse Now
An early start gives us enough time for the full 200+ minutes of the Redux version. A superb film with a superb soundtrack.
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#4 – The Godfather Part II
Fortunately my copy doesn’t suffer the all too common problem of only playing the first half of the film.
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Singularity
My Christmas bike project is nearly ready for me to start building. It’s an ex-demo Peregrine frame and fork from Sam at Singular Cycles, and despite trying to do this cheaply there’s a pile of new parts including mudguards, disk brakes, bars, bar tape, headset, and cables sat on the sofa. There will also be a new rear wheel arriving early next week once it’s been built. I am at least re-using a front wheel, drive train, seatpost, saddle, stem (until I sort out the length), and tyres (provided they fit).
All being well it’ll be up and running for the new year.
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Oysterband – Komedia, Bath
Despite not knowing a single song they played, it was a very enjoyable night tonight, finishing off with an acoustic version of Put Out the Lights with all the band stood in the crowd in front of the stage.
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Christmas Shopping
It’s a lot more pleasant when aided by a large mulled wine with a shot of brandy in it.
Circulating Library
Southgate
Southgate
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#3 – The Godfather
Freshly restored and on Blu-ray, this is by far the best version I’ve seen, and is very good for a film which is older than I am. This probably means I should watch parts 2 and 3 tomorrow and Saturday.
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#227 – Mystic River
Another day, another film. I might actually have finished the list by the time I retire at this rate.
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#175 – Scarface
Don’t call me Scarface, my name is
CaponeTony Montana.
Two for the price of one tonight, and the 50th film off the list since we started.
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#121 – The Green Mile
The first film off the list for quite a while, mainly thanks to the early arrival of Ben next door at the start of November. Another Frank Darabont film of a Stephen King story, and a good film though somewhat overshadowed by #2 – The Shawshank Redemption which has returned to it’s rightful spot at #1 since we started our list.
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Coincidental running times
Two new films arrived on Blu-ray today, both have a running time of 153 minutes. How odd.
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The First of Two (Many)
Tonight was the first proper Christmas meal of the season. It was the combined technician/support team meal, known as “Carl’s Birthday” so as not to upset the over-sensitive developers.
We went to Loch Fyne in town which specialises in fish, so as befits a fish restaurant I had a nice piece of rare rump steak. We had a very pleasant meal for the 25 of us, which for me was washed down with a rather nice bottle of Merlot Grenache house red.
Ten bonus “aged indie kid” points if you understand the title of this post.
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