Is it November yet?
OK, I’m being greedy. I should really just be happy that I’ve only got until May 15th to catch The Matrix:Reloaded, whereas the final installment (Revolutions) isn’t out until November 7th, but when you hear snippets of info like this: “Producer Joel Silver said there is one 17-minute sequence in Revolutions that cost two-thirds of the budget of the original Matrix picture (which cost $65 million.)” it certainly makes you sit up and think… just hope the release dates are global and not U.S.!

More info at Coming Attractions.

My memory sucks
All day I’ve been thinking “Ohhh must jot that down” or “I wonder if anyone else thinks that..” and so I thought I’d type up some of those thoughts and share them with you. But I can’t. They’ve disappeared.

Only one I can vaguely remember was a rant about the elderly, specifically the ‘wee old women’ that ramble on about how the youth of today have no respect or manners, more specifically the old bat that nicked our table at lunchtime today. I was standing making sure Louise could find me (we were in a shopping centre and she was across the concourse) and I had my bags perched on a chair. I turn round to sit down and there’s one of those ‘sweet’ little old woman, deftly ignoring my glare as she starts removing her lunch from her tray. I tell you, if I had had a different upbringing I might well have throttled the old bag.

Do not mess with me when I am slightly hungover, have been dragged round a shopping centre that was further away than I thought, and I am dying to get my lunch.

Needless to say all I did was snort loudly (cos that’s the code we use isn’t it? some sort of ‘I’m very displeased but cos I’m British I can’t say anything’ noise) and lurched off to find another table.

Hmmm, seems I remembered most of that though… still can’t remember the name of the Scottish artist whose prints I spotted while out, some lovely photography… Colin something or other…

Anyway, house warming party tonight, possibly cinema tomorrow, or possibly a day loafing about the house, would be the first of the year so it’s long overdue!

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Something new #286
Stutter: To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
Stammer: To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions.

Now ya know.

(If you are wondering this is the result of one of those afternoon conversations in the office, which moves through 23 different topics and leaves you wondering what the difference is between a stutter and a stammer…)

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Scottish Blogs.
And then there were 40! Not sure how many ‘members’ of the Webring read this site, but I am pretty chuffed at this, especially as people are now joining without me having to ‘invite’ them. I am working on a couple of minor additions for the main site too, the ability to list all the sites in a sidebar or floating window being one.

That (working on the Scottish Blogs site) reminds me. I’m toying with a re-design for this site. There. I’ve said it publicly. Guess I’ll have to do something about it…

Galactic Toss Monkeys
Ya know I was toying with trying to explain what I was going on about, but having typed and re-typed explanations, and then reading them, I don’t think I’ll bother. And anyway, that’s the point of an in-joke, you don’t have to explain it, it just exists…

Many films, games and TV shows have in-jokes, they help tie the audience closer to the programme, and you will find that many groups have a similar history. It’s kinda fun trying to guess how some of them came about…