Author: davebushe

I just watched the finale of Enterprise and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot. It was shit, it was actually complete and utter shit but it had Riker and Troi, Data and Picard and the Enterprise D alongside the music from TNG and it was like seeing an old friend again for the first time in a while.

So I enjoyed it, quite a bit.

Lost was ok, next week really needs to get the finale together, I’m loosing hope for this show quite fast 🙁

24 was the usual bags of fun. So OTT but so much fun.

And The Shield continues to be the best thing on TV. I’m looking forward to next week a whole lot.

Hibernation goes fine. This morning I watched A New Hope and lots of the bonus features. This evening I shall watch The Empire Strikes Back and the nerdiness shall continue!

I’ll probably watch Doctor Who because I’m somewhat bored but it’s really been poor so far. If this is actually rated as decent sci-fi then I weep for the genre.

To round off an exciting Saturday night, there will no doubt be some CoH.

How’s that for a fun filled weekend kids?

Well “meh” I think covers it. Nice the way it left lots of room for a sequel at the end.

Empire
New Hope
Sith
Jedi
Clone Wars
Phantom Menace

It was too long, but it didn’t drag half as much as the last two. There were quite a few good moments but also a little rushed and disjointed.

McGregor was excellent and brought so much to Obi-Wan. Very beleiveable that he would become Alec Guiness’ Obi-Wan.

Frankenstein sucked *really* fucking badly.

More tomorrow

(sorry Shug, I stole your joke!)

So I’m getting kinda excited now…

Tonight – > Out playing pool.
Tomorrow morning – > Going to Oxford to work with at a partners for the day.
Tomorrow Night – > Focus grouping for the evening.
Thursday -> Work as usual.
Thursday night – > Star Wars.

And funnily of all that, I’m possibly the least excited about is Star Wars.

And now some pool and beer.

One mainly for the gamers but it’s funny enough that everyone should get something out of it.

Save Target/Link As

I spent much of Saturday night confusing Doug and Neil. I’m not quite sure why but there were three or four times during the evening where I had them mixed up over recommendations for things.

The main one being; And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead. They are in fact excellent. Worlds Apart while being very repetitive is a solid album. Somewhat nu-metal but not enough to hold against it.

The rest of Saturday was good fun. The few of us who were not at Bristol did manage to make it to The Quays after what felt like a never-ending walk and then we drank and made merry. Lots of fun and (un)fortunatly none of the photos came out. Without the flash may have looked to be coming out reasonably well on the preview but in real life, not a one of them is usable 🙁

A decent pub, not as good music as the last time but there was one or two moments of table unity when we rocked out (read: nodded heads at the same time). Shameful behaviour from young Townsend who ran off early. An absolute disgrace! Anyway the twinges I had about missing Bristol were lessened lots by the good company so thanks all.

The rest of the weekend was either Heroing around (good fun on several characters) or having a Veronica Mars marathon. More on that one later.

I would like to be able to associate a song with two albums in iTunes. I have a few compilations and best of and things like that. I also have some of the albums which these tracks were on originally. In order to keep both albums intact, I have the same song on my iPod twice. For example. I have The Smiths, The Queen is Dead and The Best of by The Smiths. 9 Tracks feature on two of these albums so I have 9 duplicates. I’d love some sort of smart feature which could recognise this and eliminate the dupes.

Yes, I know that of course I can do this playlist but that requires quite a lot of effort from me to get organised and would break my album sorting. That’s why I said I want a smart feature to do this. I’m sure there are several ways I could do it but none simply and smartly. It also bugs me that I can’t use the nice “Show Duplicate Songs” feature recently brought into iTunes. It could do with a little tweak, like looking for more than just song name (track length within a few seconds would be good) but I’d still like to be able to use it on my iPod.

“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ‘You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.'”

Olden, but golden.

I’ve been alting up a lot. I like Energy blasters and I’ve been having fun with one of them. However I really don’t like Energy as a secondary. It’s all close range stuff which kinda defeats the purpose of a blaster really. I am considering a reroll.

Main choice lately has been my highest alt, a level 25 Emp/Rad Defender. I did the first TV trial a couple of weeks ago just because. I finally did a respec last night to work out some stuff into a new build. I have 1 power in my secondary. Everything else is pure support. I dumped out Manoeuvres deliberately to open up the Stealth pool. I forget to take TP Friend which is such a useful power and so I took Invisibility. Along with SS, it’s a nice nice combination. I’ll get Phase Shift soon but next up is getting Regen Aura. I’m thinking I’ll do a respec in my early 30’s and by that stage I may be able to do without the Fitness pool thanks to buffs and the like. If I can perma haste and slot up my auras with regen I shouldn’t have to worry about running out of end. Then I can get TP back and perhaps revisit the Leadership pool. Dinged 26 last night.

For those that care, these are what I play most.
Triumph
Douro – Katana / Dark Armour Scrapper 36
Skreemer – Illusion / Radiation Controller 20
Electron Blue – Energy / Energy Blaster 10

Justice
Skreemer – Empathy / Radiation Defender 27

Pinnacle
Red Sparks Electric / Electric 22

I play Red Sparks the least. She was a Winter Lord baby and so isn’t perhaps put together too well. Also lots of debt and no money to buy enhancements kinda cripples her…and helps me be lazy not playing here.

Skreemer (controller) is lots of fun but also a Winter Lord baby and so isn’t too high up on enhancements. I have been playing him a bit and so it helps. I do need to arrange an influence transfer with my main at some stage. Then he could be uber. Suffering in PVP testing without enh. A couple of ill cont with pets can cause havok.

Sometimes I do actually wonder how much of it is worth anything.

Sometimes it take effort.