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Here it is. It’s an Antares Sentinel 80mm short tube refractor. Just need to buy myself a few new eyepieces (just got a 32mm and a 12.4mm at the moment).
Well first thing to do InSane is to work out exactly which model of iPod he has. I brought a nano earlier this year, but each subsequent model is slightly different, so something that fits last years model might not fit this one.
Secondly does he spend more time in or out of the house? Buying him some flashy speakers probably wouldn’t do much good if he spends all his time on his BMX. If he doesn’t own a BMX then buy him one of those dammnit! They’re awesome! A Raleigh Tuff Burner should be your first choice.
Personally though I’d get him some top-notch, in ear headphones. I got myself a couple of these babies off of eBay:
Plus, when you’re walking down the street, these don’t scream “I’m listening to an iPod! Mug me now!!!”
Pah! Solar system, schmolar system (as I might say if I was a sterotypical Jewish mother). Besides I’ve recently worked out that I’m now the biggest thing in the universe, since I’m visible wherever I go. I’ve cancelled any holidays to south America incase they all start worshiping me instead of the sun. Madre Mia (as I might say if I was a stereotypical South American).
And I’ve brought myself a ‘scope now, so I’m a n00b with an expensive bit of equipment 😉
Congrats Turks!
Don’t worry about John Lewis’s. I’m sure that there’s plenty of other ghey graduate schemes you can go on. The BBC or Channel 4 must do something like that ‘cos they’re full of gheys.
You just can’t do serious, gritty realism when there are yanks about, as is proved by 28 Weeks later. They are very keen to bring copious amounts of ass-kickery against any infected people. One of my friends has a term for aspects of films like these, which is ‘mong-tribution’; like retribution, but just directed at ‘mongs’, which is his term for any zombie monster type.
There is a fair amount of mongtribution in this film. Some of it good, some not so good. You’ve got some cool M14 sniping action, chopper blade action, gas action, napalm action and good old fashioned crow bar action. We also get an insite into how the American war machine works:
Threat level 1: Colonel – “We’re under threat. Lock everyone in a poorly secured basement.”Threat level 2: Colonel – “Some people are infected. Kill everyone.”
Threat level 3: Colonel – “I’ve lost the plot. Destroy Wapping.”
I thought it was a pretty good sequel, but it deviated too much from the survival horror that I enjoyed in the first one.
@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:
But the advice is muh appreciated, even though I am sure I will spend the rest of my life wishing I had at least rodgered the wench.
Well probably better that way then spending the rest of your life wishing you hadn’t.
Life throws these temptations our way every once in a while, but you’ve gotta just get on with it and do the right thing. However, on a funny note, I’ll always remember how Russel Crowe charmed Meg Ryan away from Dennis Quaid and then proceeded to dump her after she’d got divorced! And then her lips inflated themselves and she went mad on Parkinson.
That could have been you Pharty.
Seriously though Sean, this luuurve you’re feeling will probably subside since it’s really just a heightened level of interest in another person. One way around it would be to say to this girl “Hey! How are things?” and after half an hour you’ll be pretending have something more important to do than listen to her.
Well I’m biased (the wife’s friend’s boyfriend did the special effects on this film), but I thought that this film was officially ‘alright’ (Boyle, if you’re reading you can stick that on your movie posters).
However, there are a few, shall we say, ‘questionable’ aspects to this film. If you had a choice between throwing a bomb the size of Manhattan into the sun or alternatively Manhattan into the sun I know what I’d choose, if only to hear loads of New Yorkers shouting “Hey! I’m burning here.”
And how hard is it to crash something into the sun? I mean, it’s pretty bloody hard to miss the biggest thing in our galaxy. Having said that, it wouldn’t have been a particularly good film if they did it that way, but would have made sense dammnit!
Incidentally there was another thing about just these sort of shennanigans happening back in 1990 called ‘Solar Crisis’, which also bombed, I think mainly due to confusion over how an iced lolly could cause any sort of crisis. It also had Charlton Heston in it as a badass general.
I had problems with it, but I think it was down to the extra hardware I used with it rather than the board itself (which seemed to be the obvious culprit).
Performance wise it’s not a mobo I’d buy as a basis for a brand new system, but as a way of gradually upgrading an existing machine to DDR2 or PCI-E, and if you’re on a tight budget it’s damn fine.
@Ryzo wrote:
lol yup, apprently! its safe to say, anyone riding at that speed on a bike and then getting into a similar crash has a very small chance of getting up!
No Ryzo, it is safer to ride fast. Wolf posted that assumption to a bikers forum and I’m pretty sure that they all said riding really fast is safer than riding slowly.
Fact.
Anyway, glad to hear you’re okay. A mate of mine had 7 bike crashes that weren’t his fault, each giving him little more than bruises and sprains. He now drives a car since he got the impression somebody was trying to tell him something.
Well let’s just say that Insane and myself may shortly working for an exciting new international IT solutions company, who are determined “To be recognised by our employees, customers, vendors and partners as the market leading technology solutions provider around the infrastructure.”
Or to put it in English; Pay peanuts and offer an acceptable service.
Re: Fast Food – When I was in my mid twenties I probably had McDonalds once or twice a week. These days it’s once or twice a year, but not because of this book. Although now I’m less inclined to eat their out of principle than out of health reasons. The part about McDonalds employees more likely to kill each other than postal workers was an eyeopener!
Well surely ‘WET’ is short for Wild Egg Tamer, so if it was WET’s birthday, then we’d have a picture of a man taming a ferocious egg.
Whoevers birthday it is, I’ll give you my generic birthday wishes greeting:
Happy Birthday _______________! You certainly don’t look like your ___ years old! You look OLDER! At least you’re one year closer to retirement. Have a good birthday and don’t drink too much _______.
Btw that’s an open source birthday greeting for men or women up to the age of 64 or 59 (respectively), so please feel free to distribute it.
