Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol Trailer

Because I just remembered the other day I'd forgotten to post it.



Geeky, wibbly wobbly timey wimey thought. Does the 'Time can be rewritten' mean that time and certain key events as fixed is no longer part of the Whoniverse? That time is just up for grabs for want of a better term? Or will there be consequences a la The Reapers from 'Fathers Day'? Just wondering since time being rewritten was a part of s5 because of the cracks which I assume are fixed now so time should be back to normal.
Then again this is just the Christmas episode. I doubt there's going to be anything game changing going on.

Also I need to get my hands on the series 5 boxset and soundtrack.

Snowpocalypse

I can't believe we've not only gotten snow twice in the one year, but proper, sticks to the ground, lasts more than a day, omg it's properly freezing out snow. January (and the end of December) felt like a fluke. You know that once in however many decades, I-remember-when-I-was-young kind of cold. My Granny had even said that the last time she remembered cold that bad was back in the early 60s around the time one of my uncles was born. And yet here we are with the same weather in the same year only with more snow. It's largely thawed out by now (although it took it's time) but by the looks of the long range forecast we're in for more.

These were taken Wednesday afternoon (1 December). This is already a pretty decent amount of snow for Dublin. (click pictures to embiggen)


And then we got a lot more snow. Not just Wednesday afternoon but it didn't stop snowing on Thursday. As in foot prints don't reach the ground and you can't make out where the path or road begin. (That bit that looks a bit like the path is actually a small wall that the fence comes out of.)




I think the back garden pics give a better perspective on how deep the snow was.




I know for a lot of people this doesn't look like much snow but for Ireland it is. We can handle a lot of wind and rain but we're not a climate of extremes so when we get any kind of extreme it's a big deal. Looking at the current weather warning and long range forecast we've definitely got more on the way.

It's Christmas!

In celebration of December 1st (the day I actually accept Christmas is coming) I give thee a completely random selection of Christmas music.

'It Feels Like Christmas' from The Muppet Christmas Carol (aka my childhood and current Christmas love movie)


'Carol of the Bells' from Home Alone. I adore this song. I love listening to it and I love singing it in a choir.


'What's This?' from The Nightmare Before Christmas because it's just so infectious and fun.



'Must Be Santa' by Bob Dylan. This album was the only Christmas one I could stand working in a shop last Christmas. Thank god for the guy who brought it in or I would've gone insane.


And in honour of the serious snow we're getting in Ireland right not, particularly in the east of the country, 'Let it Snow' by Dean Martin.

First Essay of the Semester

... and I'm procrastinating so bad. It's not even proper procrastination where I actively look for other things to do (well, aside from posting this) it's more I'll be reading and my mind just wanders off in a different direction. 'As Jean Baudrillard suggests in the case of ... blah object blah subject blah ... Wait, what did that paragraph say?' It probably doesn't help that the article I'm currently reading has the combination of a smaller than usual font size and a lot of dense sentences with many syllable words. The irony of all this is that I had planned to get all this done early but than my computer died and I lost any chance of getting work done between not having my laptop and then trying to fix everything.
It can also just be frustrating that an essay that's only 1,000 words and only worth 10% requires so much work. Then again I personally think I'm terrible at handling short essays. I always read and plan too much and end up having to leave loads out. The joy of editing. I want to be done by Wednesday because I'm not home most of Thursday and I don't want to have to be frantically trying to write on essay on my bday when it's due. I think my main problem is my mind thinking 'hey you've written a heck of a lot more than that in one day'. Which is true, I got 3,000 in a day before, but it doesn't mean I want to have to do it.

I was going to post a .gif but apparently it just stays as a static picture which saddens me. Have some Grover instead. He doesn't get enough love nowadays.

Internal Hard Disk Drive Not Found

My laptop died last week. It's a bit of a mix between how much was backed up and how much I lost but it's basically all fine now, just a pain trying to get everything back the way I want it. Although I guess you can now say that the name Roslin fits better, came back from near death and straight back to work. Mind you that did lead to the election against Gauis and the fun that was New Caprica. And that was before the Cylons arrived.
Please don't turn on me laptop.

I will say this, by the time I'm done making sure everything's back to the way I like it, my laptop is going to be extremely organised.

Anyway, here's some Eddie Izzard on computers and technology.