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It's Christmas eve, officially!

Hooray. Hope you all enjoy your christmassies and stuff! I've not been posting lately, been too busy catching up on sleep. I've missed a lot. Woo!

As for what's happened lately, nothing has. It's christmas eve tomorrow, though. And it's also Sunday, which means new Torchwood. So I'll be posting on christmas (Or more likely boxing day) with my thoughts of it!

And, though I promised myself I wouldn't, I've become addicted to an MMORPG again. MapleStory. It's a 2D sidescrolling MMORPG. It's a very good one, as well, in my opinion.

Ah well, GUYWAG FOR ICONOCLASM!

-Mindez

I leave you with this.

Yay, I am free from School for a whole two weeks.

Oh the sleep I shall catch up on.

I had an.. interesting conversation today. I rang the game store, where I'm trying to get my Wii. It went something like this:

*rings up the game store again*
Me: "Oh, hi, I'm ringing to ask whether you have a Wii yet?"
Him: "Ah, just hold on a second."
*sound of person putting hand over phone*
Him: "Jeff! It's that guy again, asking about the Wii, what do I tell him?"

So, yeah. I think I am remembered. Hoorah! GUYWAG! And I was told to ring back tomorrow. I think I'm annoying them! =D

Anyway, other stuff.. I'm working through a book of Logic Puzzles, and I've got this month's BBC's Mind Games magazine. It's a very good magazine. Highly recommended for people that like puzzles and stuff. Something for everyone. I'm going to take out a subscription.

As for anything else, nope. Nothing else.

But I leave you with this:

Yay, review time!

 This post contains spoilers about Doctor Who S01E02, starring William Hartnell, and stuff.

 CUT for spoilers.

Yes. This is the FOURTH time Mr Meacham has marked my homework/test wrong. -.-

So I say to you: I got 100%. No matter what he says.

ONE lesson to go before the end of school. And it's Computing. Huzzah.

The results of my last Mechanics test are in, as well. 64/72. My rival got 40/72. I wish this counted, but it wasn't in Computing, and we're not officially rivals in Maths. Dang. Second highest mark in the class, the top one got 66/72 -.-

But oh, I shall beat him.

Apart from that: Had a boring physics lesson, HATE Mr Meacham, etc.

I hope my Computing teacher doesn't come snooping around this blog. I sent him an email, so he has the 'mindez' bit. *hides*

Yes, anyway. This is a bit of a non-blog-entry. It's a bit rambly. I'm hoping to write a nice article on ARGs and their attraction, tomorrow. Possibly.

I highly doubt I will.

(Also, apparently my Computing teacher was looking for me today. I hope it's not anything bad e.E)

Safety in compliance, safety in DefenseCorp.

 

A REVIEW OF TORCHWOOD EPISODE 10 - OUT OF TIME. Spoilers abound, but I don't know how to break the post (Which is unusual, normally I'm really good at breaking technical things) so..yeah.

Okay, well. I'll be brief with this: I didn't like it. My original just-after rating was 3.2/10. Lets see if I can talk myself into changing it.

It started alright - the idea of people being lost in time, falling through a hole into a world that they otherwise would never know, that is completely different from anything they've experienced before. Wanderers, lost in the fourth dimension. And Torchwood were the only people that know of how they could possibly have fallen. And I think that the whole "lost in time" theme is a strong theme, if explored well. It was explored in this episode, but.. not well enough. It was certainly explored ENOUGH (Practically every scene had "omg we have nothing left!" and "omg it's so NEW!", but.. that was seemingly all there was to the episode.

It didn't 'pick up pace' towards the end, or seem to get any stronger, as far as I could see, except in one case.

So, now to focus on the characters.

John - The business man, who's lost everything. His name is all he's got left, and he doesn't want to give it up. He seems to want to keep the three lost people together, not to get mingled with the 'new' world. The prospect of the new world is too overpowering, and drives him crazy. He doesn't want to live with nothing left. And his resolve not to gets the better of him. His storyline was, in my opinion, by *FAR* the strongest of the three.

Diane - ..Seemed to me just to be an excuse to insert random rompings into the episode. Her storyline followed a more passionate approach. As I have commented on Tamino Badwolf, it seems that you would have had to have experienced something like this in order to be absorbed by this. I haven't, and so I wasn't. Weakest of the three.

Other person - Seemed to not be doing much, actually. Besides having trouble adjusting, she seemed to have been inserted into the plot just to create Gwen/Rhys argument.

I think that combining the three ideas together only made it a bit messy. It would have been better, in my opinion, to just concentrate for longer on John's storyline, which I found the most compelling. As I say, some people's opinions may differ. It could be the boring non-emotional logical robotic personality of me that watched this, but I wasn't remotely interested in Diane's or TheOtherPerson's storylines.

And finally, I will re-rate this episode. I'll rate it at a 5.6/10. Decent, could be much much better, not my preferred choice of viewing on a Sunday evening. But at least the rating is higher.

Gah, sorry for not posting today. Or being online at all. My ISP broke. So I lost my internets, damned internet pixies hiding them. BUT I found them all again, so it's alright.

So, short blog as I must get to sleep. Think of it as a trailer.

A trailer to what, you may ask. And you may well get answers. A trailer to my next blog post, to be made at around 13:30 tomorrow.

And what shall be in this blog?*

- Me!
- A review of Torchwood episode 10!
- Bitching and ranting about christmas!
- My Computing teacher's reaction to me having finished the next 3 months of homework in under 2 hours!
- More bitching and ranting about how much I hate free periods at my college!
- Whatever else I can think of to write about!

*gasp* Coming to a browser near you, VERY soon!

-Mindez

 

*Disclaimer: Mindez is not in any way responsible for the lack of any of these contents from the upcoming blog post.

Wow at the number of comments I received yesterday. I'm sure it was a fluke, rather than people ACTUALLY liking me, but still. THANKS TO YOU ALL!

Hoorah.

Today, I watched "An Unearthly Child", the first ever Doctor Who story. (*cough* http://vids.tamino.co.uk/eps/001.php *cough*).

Anyway, apart from doing that (And watching Doctor Who for almost 2 hours straight), I've not done much today. Oh, except I did my Computing homework yesterday, and when I say "did my Computing homework", I mean "did every single Computing homework for the next 3 months". In the space of an hour and a half. And it was surprisingly fun. I love algorithms.

Still, that's going to cause me a lot of boredom over the next three months. Only 3 days (Or 6 lessons) left until the end of school for the year! 2 Computing, 1 Further Maths, 2 Electronics, and 1 Physics.

Also, one of my Electronics/Physics teachers sucks. I'm not going to mention Mr Meacham's name here, but he really sucks. Our electronics lesson is going to go on for the full time on Tuesday, even though EVERY SINGLE other class finishes at 3:30 on Tuesday. But nooo, he's MAKING us stay in until 4:30. Agh. I hate him. And he always -ALWAYS- marks my homework wrong. And then when I point this out, just says "..I can't be bothered with this now." and "Why do you do this to me?" - Well, maybe I have to do it to you BECAUSE YOU MARK MY HOMEWORK WRONG.

*sighs*

Anyway, I could rant on all day about Mr. Meacham whom I shall not name. And I don't actually hold it against him for making us stay in on Tuesday, but I -DO- hold it against him for having taught us exactly the same thing every single lesson since the beginning of term, and marking my homework wrong. (I have him for one Electronics and one Physics a week. My other Electronics/Physics teacher is awesome, though.)

The Hogfather is on TV tomorrow. I can't wait to watch it. Also Torchwood episode 10. Also Codex. Also Lost.

Wow, that's a lot of things on TV tomorrow. and my Sky+ can only record Torchwood, because anything recorded on Channel 4 or Sky One (Or the Sci-Fi Channel, but there's nothing good on that tomorrow) completely borks up, and keeps skipping, doesn't play audio, etc. It's terrible.

 

Comments plx.

-Mindez