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F&!king Germans!

lol, err, excuse me. I just need to explode somewhere over the fact I’m getting sick of “accidentally” downloading German dubs of movies I really want to see. It’s hard enough to make up my mind what to watch on a night and then finally pull myself away from QI and Mock the Week repeats for 90 minutes and actually watch it, only then to find it’s in f%!king German! lol. Okay it’s all my own fault really. But like I said, I just needed to explode somewhere. I’m done now :)

iPhone No Longer Available in UK - Mac Rumors - now that’s just weird, lol. Sort of exciting though. I’m gonna have money to spend in the next month or so and my phone contract’s about to expire. I’m hoping they update the MacBooks soon too, well enough to make them a good enough upgrade from my PowerBook (which they pretty much are already excepting the graphics) instead of a MacBook Pro so I would save enough to be able to make my next phone an iPhone - if they make the camera better … otherwise it’ll be Sony Ericsson again :) update lol, ‘kay, it’s changed now … I think baby made a boom-boom somewhere in the o2 offices :-P

Just the cleaned up one since Tumblr shrinks everything and I love it so much.

I heart Photoshop lol. I didn’t really know where to put this for now. I may at some point use it as a Facebook profile pic or whatever - I try to use Flickr for photos only and as it’s not my work (it was cut from paper by a Frenchman some 20 years ago I’m guessing in Quimper lol) I don’t think it right to put it on DeviantART. So here for now it is - I scanned it about 5 years ago and have definitely tried a few times to clean it up. It seems I must’ve learned a few tricks in the meantime ‘cos I just opened it up, healing-brushed the newspaper clipping, made a rough selection and removed the paper texture with a blur, then applied the cut-out filter to the whole thing. It’s like almost literally like new hehe. I love this thing ‘cos the guy immortalised my cute nose before whatever happened to it happened to make it how it is now LOL.

» Florida Substitute Teacher Fired, Accused Of Wizardry.

It’s official, guys, some human beings need to be put down.

BEDTIME-STORY CLASSIC - Addendum: Alice’s Adventures under Ground - the original manuscript Lewis Carroll wrote for Alice Liddell - coolness, I was looking for this earlier, the British Library site seems to have a version but it’s in flash or something and wouldn’t work for me (edit: ah … it’s working now … way too faffy and gimmicky for me though, can’t they just upload a PDF?). I’ve never seen this colorized version of the famous picture of her either.

Happy Birthday Liddell Alice

Today is the birthday of Alice Liddell, the girl for and about whom Lewis Carroll wrote “Alice in Wonderland”. It’s also the date on which Alice’s adventures occur in the book … he must’ve really liked her ;) It’s the first year I’ve really been aware of this so I’ve gone rather overboard this week in reading the first book in “The Annotated Alice”, with all the notes (illuminating to say the least - now I have tons of other things mentioned in the margins that I want to read though lol) alongside Alice-like movies such as Labyrinth, Tideland and MirrorMask.

This afternoon, the book fresh in my mind, I’m watching various movie and TV versions of the story, from the Disney one I’ve seen many times before, my favourite (so far) Fiona Fullerton version, two that I’ve not seen yet - a black and white BBC version that sounds fascinating and the 1999 Tina Majorino TV movie - and also Dreamchild that I’ve always had a vague memory of seeing when I was probably far too young to understand it, so I’m looking forward to that too. Even iTunes has played a part - I listened to Tom Waits’ “Alice” (which I never knew was actually songs for an adaptation - I’d’ve listened to it much sooner if I had), Donovan’s “HMS Donovan”, and of course John Barry’s score to the Fullerton movie yesterday :) I have the Kate Beckinsale “Through the Looking Glass” too but I think I’ll save that till I’ve read the second book.

… Seriously?

» Roger Ebert's Journal: Arthur C. Clarke: Star hero

hehe, just started reading Ebert’s journal. Cinemania rocked. It was like my gateway to movie loving before getting online proper, so I never even got to use the monthly updates. I’d probably still buy it if they’d kept releasing it each year, it’s up there with FLStudio for me on the short short list “reasons to have Windows” lol.

WTF? Signing up for the FLStudio forums I got this in addition to the usual captcha code thing. Surely this would confirm a machine presence if anything lol?!? Well I needed a calculator anyway (shut up, it’s late).