Archives for August, 2009
I am fluent in English and Awesome, conversational in Funny and Star Wars and what might be termed “menu only” in French; in that I know how to order multiple food/drink items and ask how much things are.
This really isn't a very good showing, as I studied French for five year at school. Mostly because the French students got to ...more»
Paris doesn't disappoint. This is a rare thing to say about a tourist attraction. In fact, I can't think of a single other tourist attraction that does exactly what it says on the tin. It's beautiful, it's got brilliant food, the wine is insanely cheap, the service is that adorable French antagonistic-yet-playful-yet- consummately professional style that I assumed was simply ...more»
Below are the albums from our recent trip to Paris. There are longer posts on the way detailing what we actually did. I love these Flickr slideshows. Go fullscreen to feel the awesome power of our brand new camera! (Which was James's birthday gift.) No, really. Do it.
This first slideshow is from Paris proper.
The next slideshow is Versailles. Which was ...more»
Here comes another one. Enjoy. And not all of these relate to Star Wars... Though many of them do.
The first is a little bit useful. It's a site that allows you to rip the audio from YouTube videos and save them as MP3s. This may come in handy exactly once in your entire life.
Some really hardcore nerd furniture. If you ...more»
It's one year to the day since we arrived. And everyone I have spoken to has said it feels like SO MUCH LONGER. Because it does. This is because the universe, Gordon Brown and Ben Bernanke have conspired to force me to live through at least three separate lifetimes in the last twelve months.
So let's see... What have I learnt?
Wicked ...more»
Rather than my Posterous for some reason.
No matter... Check. This. Out. Watch it in High Quality on full screen. That's one hell of a game trailer. I like that in the ten years since Episodes I - III came out, in-game video graphics have improved to the point where they look significantly better than the feature films.
I sincerely hope this ...more»








