Feb. 22nd, 2008

winterbadger: (Napoleonic_shakos)
Too Fat Lardies are a UK wargames publisher whose products I've recently gotten hooked on.

Their front page of their Yahoo group currently contains a photo of Sharpe/Harper models they are getting cast for their Napoleonic skirmish game. Based on the descriptions of the characters in the books, they look quite good, IMHO.

Scotfax

Feb. 22nd, 2008 01:15 pm
winterbadger: (scotland flag)
I haven't read through it all, but this collection of useful and interesting information about Scotland is, to the best of my memory, a relatively new addition to Undiscovered Scotland (my favourite website). And while some of the pieces are familiar to me (like the page on midge, complete with a photo of a giant midge, which I have read several times), some are new to me and quite fascinating.
winterbadger: (wonder)
Thursday was the final night that the University Theaters were showing 'The Golden Compass' and thus likely* my last chance to see this in the theater.

I LOVED it. They had to work fast to cram so complex a book into one movie, and (I have to check this) I think they ended it on a very different note and in a very different place than the first book ended. But I think that had to do with how they had been dealing with the subject of Dust and the scientific exploration that Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter were engaged in.

I thought the casting was by and large marvelous, and the conceptions of the locations, the costuming, the whole story was wonderfully translated into film. I found it terrifically moving; for my money they built suspense well and provided excellent action. My only sorrow is that, given how poorly I gather the film did, I imagine they may not make the sequels. :-( I was really pleased by how well they portrayed the daemons; even the alietheometer itself was just how I had imagined it.

Neta didn't feel much like trekking out to VA to see it, so I stayed a little late at work, drove to the theater and saw it by myself, and had dinner on the way. I meant to stop at Temel for dinner, scene of many delicious meals with my former housemates, but in the end I didn't have time, and so stopped at Five Guys for a burger. The theater is perfectly agreeable, and you can't beat the prices ($4 a ticket, $2 on Tuesdays), so I imagine I will be back.

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