Woozy Weekend
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mundensDon't think I'll get much done today.
Sitting down with a nice coffee made for me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ferrouswheel, but earlier had a horrible queasy feeling and a big pain below my ribs. Ithink it was just gas but am overall feeling a little seedy after a week of late nights. The last week went damn fast!
Part of that was because I spent most of Wednesday to Thursday hacking around with Drupal, getting a new KapCon website in place and testing things out forseraphs_folly's commercial site which will have to go live soon. I agree with taniwha_nz , it's a great product. Unfortunately, as is normal, I went to the website of the project and downloaded the latest stable release, and then after installing and setting it up ( a very simple process), discovered that it was a drastic change from the previous release, and the vast majority of the mods and themes available for the previous version are not yet available for this version. Damn. Which means as the out of the box blogging and image upload capabilities are basically crap, I'm probably going to have to integrate Wordpress and Drupal. Not that this is at all difficult, but I suspect getting skins for both products to look the same may be an issue! Time disappears on you when you're playing around with such things,. Neither site is ready for release yet, so no linkies, but it hopefully won't be long.
Friday I metdanjite and khaybee for the first time at Fidel's, along with the usual crowd, but had to rush off pretty quick to catch up with and farewell drowninghail at Strawberry Faire. There was much conversation and merriment, and we got to geek over adrexia's new EEeeeee! PC and chat about steam-punk games made from NERF guns, among other things.
Saturday I veged out doing minor chores around the house, whileferrouswheel prepared for Starstruck 2 which unfortunately got cancelled because of the tropical rainstorm. I wasn't going to go to that until much later anyway because I'd been invited to have dinner with lamprey and his twin for their birthday. We started off at Good Luck and then headed up to Cafe Instanbul, wher I have to recommend both the breads and the chicken Ottomani. A lot of conversation and silliness occurred, with a floor show in the shape of a hen party, until the belly-dancer came out, after which we all squeezed into the wee white car and went back to amphigori's place, where I got to try some of lamprey's Newcastle brew (dark, medium heavy, relatively sweet, most drinkable!) and we tried to watch the "extended edition" of Dune.
It has to be one of the worst films ever made. It's no surprise that David Lynch got them to pull his name off it. Who was the complete idiot that thought fifteen minutes of voice over with poorly-realized line art was a good way to start the film? And once the film started, there was so much that could have been edited out to make the film better. Internal monologues when the person in question is doing nothing but stand there looking stupid!. Paul was far too old. Shadout Mapes told us who she was and that she was the housekeeper twice using the same words and Karloffian pronounciation each time. The Guild Navigator's lighter arriving on the imperial planet used exactly the same special effect clip as Leto's ship arriving on Arrakis. Leto's council of war reminded me of Stephen Fry's character in Black Adder The Fourth, all involved believed in the need for MORE SHOUTING!! That being said I love the baroque design, the usage of the original book's dialogue in many places., and the extreme sexual imagery whenever the guild navigator was involved. I actually saw this movie when it came out, and it didn't seem so bad back then.
Now I am watching the bucketing rain and blobbing. I think I shall watch the more recent TV series of Dune to hopefully wipe away the memory of the other!
Sitting down with a nice coffee made for me by
ferrouswheel, but earlier had a horrible queasy feeling and a big pain below my ribs. Ithink it was just gas but am overall feeling a little seedy after a week of late nights. The last week went damn fast!Part of that was because I spent most of Wednesday to Thursday hacking around with Drupal, getting a new KapCon website in place and testing things out for
seraphs_folly's commercial site which will have to go live soon. I agree with taniwha_nz , it's a great product. Unfortunately, as is normal, I went to the website of the project and downloaded the latest stable release, and then after installing and setting it up ( a very simple process), discovered that it was a drastic change from the previous release, and the vast majority of the mods and themes available for the previous version are not yet available for this version. Damn. Which means as the out of the box blogging and image upload capabilities are basically crap, I'm probably going to have to integrate Wordpress and Drupal. Not that this is at all difficult, but I suspect getting skins for both products to look the same may be an issue! Time disappears on you when you're playing around with such things,. Neither site is ready for release yet, so no linkies, but it hopefully won't be long. Friday I met
danjite and khaybee for the first time at Fidel's, along with the usual crowd, but had to rush off pretty quick to catch up with and farewell drowninghail at Strawberry Faire. There was much conversation and merriment, and we got to geek over adrexia's new EEeeeee! PC and chat about steam-punk games made from NERF guns, among other things. Saturday I veged out doing minor chores around the house, while
ferrouswheel prepared for Starstruck 2 which unfortunately got cancelled because of the tropical rainstorm. I wasn't going to go to that until much later anyway because I'd been invited to have dinner with lamprey and his twin for their birthday. We started off at Good Luck and then headed up to Cafe Instanbul, wher I have to recommend both the breads and the chicken Ottomani. A lot of conversation and silliness occurred, with a floor show in the shape of a hen party, until the belly-dancer came out, after which we all squeezed into the wee white car and went back to amphigori's place, where I got to try some of lamprey's Newcastle brew (dark, medium heavy, relatively sweet, most drinkable!) and we tried to watch the "extended edition" of Dune.It has to be one of the worst films ever made. It's no surprise that David Lynch got them to pull his name off it. Who was the complete idiot that thought fifteen minutes of voice over with poorly-realized line art was a good way to start the film? And once the film started, there was so much that could have been edited out to make the film better. Internal monologues when the person in question is doing nothing but stand there looking stupid!. Paul was far too old. Shadout Mapes told us who she was and that she was the housekeeper twice using the same words and Karloffian pronounciation each time. The Guild Navigator's lighter arriving on the imperial planet used exactly the same special effect clip as Leto's ship arriving on Arrakis. Leto's council of war reminded me of Stephen Fry's character in Black Adder The Fourth, all involved believed in the need for MORE SHOUTING!! That being said I love the baroque design, the usage of the original book's dialogue in many places., and the extreme sexual imagery whenever the guild navigator was involved. I actually saw this movie when it came out, and it didn't seem so bad back then.
Now I am watching the bucketing rain and blobbing. I think I shall watch the more recent TV series of Dune to hopefully wipe away the memory of the other!
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Date: 2008-03-02 03:14 am (UTC)I realised that I should't badmouth Dune so much (the version we saw) because I don't want to put Luke off Dune. I know it's exactly the kind of thing he'd love. I just got the wrong version.
Luckily, he's mighty intriqued and sees the wheat from the chaff and is going to watch the movie anyway, appreciating that some if it is just going to suck but not letting that get in the way of the good bits.
PS - still keen to go to Sally's book launch and will get the details from her LJ. :)
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Date: 2008-03-02 03:38 am (UTC)Once Luke's finished the movie he can try the TV version!
And you are already on the list for the book launch, you'll be receiving an invitation beforehand! :)
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Date: 2008-03-04 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-02 06:19 am (UTC)Ideally the best version of Dune is the book, but one must never read Dune Messiah. If you really must know the continuation of the story watch the Sequel to teh Mini-Series which has both Messiah (blerg) and Children of Dune.