The Da Vinci Code - Part II

Ok - Having not read the book, I thought that it might be good to go and see the movie without any pre-conceived ideas about what should be in or out of the movie adaptation.

I enjoyed the movie, although I did think it was a bit long at 138 minutes - probably at around 2 hours I started getting restless, as did many of my theatre going colleagues - that being said, we were in an older cinema, which was not quite as comfortable as the latest cinema seating.

Audrey Tatou is great, as is Tom Hanks - And Ian McKellen was really well cast also.

If you have read the book, you may as well see the film - And I think that was pretty much the pitch to the studios.

Producers: "Ok, get this - a movie version of the 'Da Vinci Code'..."
Movie Exec: "The one that's been on the best seller list for about 2 years?"
P: "Yes"
M.E: "Here's $100 million, go and do it."

The managed about a 6/10 for mine.

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Trains, again..

We all went to Mornington this weekend, as Jude was fired up about seeing trains after watching his normal Sunday morning Discovery show on trains in Britain.

It was really bloody cold, and of course it started drizzling as soon as we got out of the car!  After initially deciding not to come, Rach and Jack ended up coming on the train with us - Which turned out to be the T class diesel again.  Unfortunately the steam driver didn't show up, and a replacement wasn't due until after lunchtime.  We rode the train, and when we got back, the steam driver was there - and we watched the steam train go around and get hooked up.

Jude

He is going really well at the moment, coping pretty well with his treatment.

I will probably not be putting too many entries in here, but you can go to leukaemia.blogspot.com to see what the latest is with his treatment.

The Da Vinci Code - Part I

Ok - I'm going to see it this Thursday night, so a review to come.

I think that I'm about the only person on the globe who hasn't read the book - but I'm not too phased about that - It's probably better, because I'm not going to be constantly thinking 'oh, they left that critical part of the plot out' the whole time.

Awesome!

Listening!

I've got such a backlog of listening to do on my iPod, it's unbelieveable.

So far, I've got about 300 songs that I've not listened to, and about 15 podcasts.

I've managed to get through:

• All ABC Science Show episodes
• All Diggnation video podcasts
• All Nerds FC video podcasts
  

And still have to watch/listen to:

• Cranky Geeks video podcasts
• 2 weeks of 'This Sporting Life'
• Nova 100 & 969 podcasts
• a TWiT

And a bunch of ASOT radio music shows too!  Too much to listen to, and not enough hours.

Fro!

Little Jacko, he's growing up so quickly.

He's starting to talk now, saying a few of those 'da-da' and 'na-na' type words. He also says 'cha', short for Jack. :) Probably because we keep saying 'Jack' to him! :)

We had some one on one time on Sunday, when Rach took Jude to a Mothers day walk in the city. He was choofing around the house, being my little shadow. He also like the pussy cat. :)

He loves the cat so much he gives her half of his nuggets, although she tried to bite his fingers when he dangled them over the side of his high chair.

iPod

We got a $50 myer voucher from Foxtel, as an apology for stuffing up our original booking for installation! 

I promptly took it down to Frankston, and went on a spending spree (of sorts!).  I bought a Gecko case for my iPod, which came with a plastic screen cover too!  It's just brilliant.  I put it on yesterday afternoon, and this morning it has stuck itself down perfectly, and you cant even see the scratches underneath.  I'm very very happy with this!  Also good is the rubber case that comes with it, to stop errant drops (which I seem to do quite regularly!) from damaging the iPod.

Good to see the English Cricket team...

is back to old habits - Lots of players who aren't really poms.

Cricinfo - Mahmood and Pietersen leave Sri Lanka in tatters

Good traditional English name, that Mahmood.  Also his bowling colleage Panesar. 

And their best batsman is a South African.  Back to the days of Robin Smith and Graeme Hick! :)

Cheap Containers

Cardboard and colour printer required.  How cool is that?

IGS Hansa -Tips und Tricks-

Hard-Fi

Fast track to success - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au

Neil is going to grab the album for me! :)  Awesome

New toy!

iMobile.com.au - Motorola V3


Guess what Rach bought me!  A new Motorola V3!  Yeah baby!  This is the coolest ass phone ever, and at just 14mm thick, easily the thinnest mobile phone ever.   It sure beats the Motorola brick that I've got now (the v620).

Bastard!

Top Hawks grounded by injury - News - www.realfooty.com.au

Not only have Hawthorn lost 2 of their key players for at least a couple of weeks, I've got both of them in my BTC teams.  I can ill afford to lose Croad for my CL team, which is langishing at the bottom of the ladder with a 0-6 record so far.

Awesome time wasting site.

but piss funny!

Flickr: The Stick Figures in Peril Pool

Do it.  Now.

Google Desktop

Killed the home pc.

I thought it might be a good idea to put it on, given that we don't have any anti-virus software running on it - That being said, there is a hardware and software firewall protecting the machine.

Anyway, Rach installed it, I updated the NAV 2005 software (requiring about 3 reboots!), and now it's just about unusable. I had my favourite bittorrent client running, and it didn't download a thing last night.

It's time for a re-build anyway.

Mornington Railway

Today Jude and I went to Mornington Tourist railway, which is an interesting little operation.

Running on the now disconnected Mornington spur line, it runs between the Peninsula Freeway and Nepean Highway, about 6 k's long, with a station at each end - Mornington and Mooroduc, and a middle station (can't remember what the name is!)

We were being pulled by T411, a beautiful little diesel engine. Painted in the original VR blue and gold colour scheme.

Jude really loved the ride, and playing around on the platform at Mooroduc. 

World's Greatest Shave

I had my head shaved today at lunchtime!

As you can see, it's pretty bloody short - and a bit breezy!

I've collected about $100 from my work colleagues out on site, and hoping for at least that much from my company colleagues. 

Before Shave

This is a photo of Jude and I on the night before the Shave - Pics will be up tomorrow! :)