So a few episodes into the latest season of Dr.Who with Matt Smith, and here are my initial thoughts.
On the stories: Most of the stories have been really weak, not as epic as I would have hoped. The story “The Boarder” or whatever it was called was really good and probably the best one yet as an overall story. The other stories this season have had their ups and downs, maybe If I’m bored I write a longer review of the individual episodes. I just finished watching the episode “Pandorica Opens” and the episode was really, really good and it kinda made up for the weaker episodes of the current series.
Matt Smith does a good job as the doctor, even bordering on great. He still seems to be a bit awkward in the role, but that could just be the character haven’t found himself after the regeneration. Karen Gillian is kinda cute, but really doesn’t do it for me. And on top of that the character is really annoying, and so is the comedic sidekick Rory.
But overall the season is average, hopefully the next series will be a step up as the entire crew gets into the grove of things.
This was a short post, just to get something down as I havent had the time or the energy to write something!
This weekend we visited the täfteåfestivalen to watch a friend play, the first gig with a complete set-up with their new band. The weather was good for the most part, luckily one of our friends had brought mosquito replant which we had forgotten.We enjoyed a bottle of wine from the soon too be local wine yard, I need to learn to drink wine as I’m moving to wine country. Actually there is lots of good wines available but I have never been exposed to them until now, all I got to drink before was really sweet and crappy wines which I don’t like at all.
I will publish a few pictures at a later time, I have reached the limit of my flickr account and don’t feel like paying for more space when I have this webspace to publish pictures.
UPDATE: Added a few images from the festival
I’m planning on adding a Starcraft II part to the site where I could upload some fun replays and such, maybe Ill make that a part of the forum I’m never using or just make it a login required part of the website. There are pros and cons with either design, its more fun doing a whole new design and maybe writing a bit of code, but using the php forum code and just adding a different section is easier and less time consuming.
Another thought is just to make a few games available on YouTube any maybe do some commentary, could be fun to try it out any-ways. Now to just find a good and free video recording software and a decent voice recording application. Im going to try Fraps and do some replay captures and see how that works, haven’t tried Fraps before so well see how that works.
UPDATE: This is going to wait becuase you will not be able to watch the old games with the new client, so I will not bother with setting up a SC2 part just yet.
Sweden celebrated mothers day last weekend, and I surprised my mom with cake. Its not much of a surprise on mothers day but anyhow. Ill include a little film of the cake when I have downloaded it off the Flip.
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After having a cup of coffee we took a trip to see my grandmother and brought my mom along so we could spend mothers day with two generations of mothers. My grandmother was in good spirit and she was happy to see us all, she hadn’t seen my girlfriend in quite while. She wished us both good luck with the move and everything, so that was nice. Hopefully the weather is nice the next time we go and visit her so we can bring Loki with us as she likes cats and wanted to see him again. Also we need too bring one of the cookbooks with us, its one with classic Swedish recipes that we are planning on bringing with us when we move, and my grandmother wanted to have a look at it and see what new recipes there are.
We also had a nice conversations about when my mom moved away to work and got too here stories that I haven’t heard before which was nice. Especially one about an old record player and how my grandfather drove a long way to mail her a transistor radio so they could listen to popular music and not just old hymns and stuff like that.
So I choose to get a Nokia 5800 for my new cellphone, and hopefully I will get it today. I ordered it from the online Collect@Store part of the Elgiganten website, a Nordic electronics gods retailer. I would save around 900:- from booking it online and then going down to the store to collect and pay for the phone, so that was a good deal. But the website is buggy as all hell, the site says that it should take around two hours for the order to be processed and sent to the store, so you can pick up the items. In reality it takes closer to 5-6 hours some time according to the people in the store that I talked too. After I paid for the phone and where on my way to collect it it turned out that the phone wasn’t in stock, and haven’t been for a long time…Still showed up on the website and was able to pay for it in store.
So hopefully it will arrive today and I’m going to get some free swag for all the trouble, hope the phone is worth it in the end.
UPDATE: The phone will arrive tomorrow @10 so no shiny new toys today.
So Batista has “left” the WWE to try and get his movie carer rolling or if you believe the latest rumours he wants to compete in MMA, this is a ridiculous dumb idea in my humble opinion. But if that’s what Batista wants to do before going back into pro-wrestling that’s his business It will surely be entertaining if nothing else. Maybe a Kurt Angle vs. Batista MMA bout or something along those lines, if Kurt would be able to get a license, with a broking freeking neck.
Its going to be interesting having Rampage on Raw, does Vince now that Rampage had a huge PPV fight this weekend for the UFC that’s been beating the WWE in the PPV buys for a long time now? I will post a few thoughts on the UFC PPV this weekend when I have gotten around to hand in my thesis for the millionth time and hopefully get it past the review board. I actually think that the UFC PPV wil do around 900.000 to 925.000 buys that will be around 20-50k more than WrestleMania did this year, so Vince probably wont be happy.
I have at least five or six started blogs right now, some are harder to write than others apparently. And there is movie clips from different travels and events that need to be sorted out and edited, two dance nights and one karaoke night.
And on top of that I wanted to write a little piece about the CoC scenario Lighthouse and try and do a recap of sorts of yr events that transpired on that mist covered island. Another related project is to start chronology the longest Rolemaster camping I have Game-mastered and retelling the trials and tribulation of the characters, though much of the information still remains missing I will set up and map part on the role-playing part of the site and the people can if they want partake in the discussions surrounding the project, this project has borrowed from many published campaigns and grew out of my idea of expanding on the world engulfing Lore that exists in Shadow World and adding some new and exiting twists to the story. Too bad I don’t socialise with the people that where involved with that campaign so much any more. But the small notes I still have left is a suitable starter point and will be enough to get a skeleton together and I will have to flesh out the details that I don’t remember.
The HBK blog post I find the hardest to write because it has been such a big part of my life for so long, and nothing will ever come close to the emotional level I feel watching HBK preform.
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I really liked this tune, and going to see if I can find more songs by the same people.
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So after looking into more cellphone things, I have narrowed my search to Nokia cellphones for the moment. The models I’m looking into are the X6 and the 5800 model.
The 5800 model has a weaker camera only 3.2 MP same as my old N73 which isn’t bad for a cell phone but not good either. I wanted the phones to have wlan which makes transferring files and syncing so much easier. My current cell phone is not at all good at cable syncing, I have to use a slow ass Bluetooth connection to get it to work properly. The N73 has a faulty cable connection which drops the connection all the freaking time.
The X6 has a 5Mp camera and also got a wlan, it has 16GB built in memory so there is a lot of room for my podcasts and training music. Which brings me to my other big selling point I want a phone that will actually get me out and exercise, in this case running. So the phone needs to have a GPS and I have been looking into the Nokia sports tracking software and thinks its going to be great to keep track of my progress with that. Both these phones support the sports tracking software so they are even at that point, but the X6 has the better camera for taking pictures along the routes. I haven’t actually felt how the phones feel, the shape and weight of them so that is something I will have to check out before making up my mind on which phone if any to get. I haven’t really decided if this is the right time to buy a new phone, or if I should wait until I have finished moving or not.
Here are some of the YouTube clips I looked into while choosing the phone
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I’m leaning more towards the 5800 as its cheaper than the X6 and it comes with 8GB and can be upgraded to 16GB so that should last me a good while, as I’m currently using about 2GB but that means having to delete stuff every 2 days or so and that’s a real ball ache with the faulty cable on my N73
just a better mp3 player. I’m still a few years behind on the whole cell phone and mp3 front never owned a ipod or a touchscreen cell phone. My old Nokia N73 have been crap for the last year or so, I have changed the battery once before and I’m not keen at buying a new on for an old phone. So what kind of cellphone am I looking for, don’t really know, It must be able to preform as a music player hopefully with some kind of cable-remote access. I haven’t switched to Bluetooth headsets yet, and I recently bought a new pair of headphones that would stay attached even while training, so I’m not looking to replace those just yet. So the cell phones I’m looking at are the Nokia 6700 Classic
The thing im not fond of is that it doesn’t support a remote-headset thingy, but the price is right and the phone is quite small and thats always a bonus.
The other phone I have been looking at is the HTC Hero, the brown one is a whole lot cheaper than the other colors so that could be affordable.
But I’m not sure if I rather get an Iphone later on instead of getting an HTC now, not sure if the Blizzard authenticator is available for the Android system yet and that would be a plus. As for an mp3 player that’s up in the air as I don’t know what kind too get, probably just get a cheap one so I don’t have too worry too much.
Now its time for some Starcraft II before the BETA goes down in a week, need to get a few more games done so I can handle being without the BETA for a month.
