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This is a very interesting thingy about organising data.

"there is no shelf"
sounds very zen
:)



also, the whole yahoo compared to google bit makes it clearer to me why I'm good at web searches and not so very good at libraries.

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sweetcorn turns out to be good to eat.
I used to know that but somehow forgot.

chocolate is only good to eat in ever smaller portions tho.


'Return of Amanda' is fun
Amanda has pretty little lines when she smiles
I like people with lines. Its like no-lines people are sketches, haven't filled in the personality yet. Lines are all about history.
Airbrushed art takes all the context and story out of a face, blanks them out. Strange looking. Real bodies have such wondrous variety.

Highlander props and costumes

Watching Buffy, I'm used to getting a lot out of watching the wardrobe and props and suchlike.
Watching Highlander with the same degree of attention is just... painful and distracting. All you learn is they really believe in recycling. I mean there's one pair of earrings that have been worn by every blonde woman in the series so far. And 'Revenge of the Sword' has one room made up with one wall from the antiques shop and another from the 'temple' set from... the one with the distilled root making guys into super soldiers briefly. In Buffy if they reuse a statue, especially a religious one like the Janus head, it means something. In Highlander it means they had a great big wall o Buddha in storage somewhere.
I know everyone has to optimise their use of money, but it feels strange on account of being different.
Recycling actors is also odd. I mean I know canada has about a dozen and they wear false noses a lot ( ;) ) but you have to really pay attention to decide if its a returning character or just a returning actor. And sometimes it just looks cheap and wrong, like if anyone who was ever in the credits comes back in the spinoff as someone else, or the guys that were central to more than one ep. Sometimes it works, but it looks so odd.
Also tiresome are the flashbacks that last five minutes and are straight out of previous episodes. Good way to stretch the episode, get value out of older work. But also, been there, seen that.

/rant

I love Highlander, but the version in my head is the distilled version. The one on the screen has all the flaws put back in :(

And also Amanda. And Duncan with no shirt on. And Richie. And, eventually, Methos. So that works out.

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today I made a 'to do' list
guess how much of it got done?


yup


so. instead my brain has been full of the nifty library thingy, the interesting Ethan discussion that I keep wanting to go back and do better with, and bringing up random questions on the S3. Plus reading a really good thread on Making Light about writing, stories, RPGs, plots, and a bunch of other things. Oh, and that essay about ontology and tags. And... just having a general internet day, really. With added Highlander episodes while I ate.

Progress towards Cultural Studies essay: nil.
but a brain full of thoughts is a good thing anyways.


now I think I'll try sleeping. I hear its nice.