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Stuff its what I been doing. Some of the stuff I been doing includes watching tv shows, I recently finished northern exposure, the wire and one or two other shows. I recently started watching numb3rs and have been enjoying it.

Drinking is more stuff I been doing and spending time with mates..that is good stuff. Went Go karting on sat and bowling…the two shouldn’t be done on the same day my shoulders are telling me

So my holidays were over 3 weeks or so ago. I spent most of it watching tv I got through

• Season 1-5 Two and a half men
• Season 3-4 the pretender
• Season 1-3 Seaquest
• Season 1-2 Weeds.
• Season 1ish of Batman the brave and the bold

I also saw X-men Origins: Wolverine and Star trek while on holidays both good movies.

X-men Origins: Wolverine is the story above Wolverines past and how he gets his adamantium skeleton, escapes looses his memory and all that. It was a good action flick with some great special effects and nice fight scenese. It lost some points with me because it wasn’t accurate to what I am aware of with wolverine and some of the supporting cast’s histories it gets 3.5/5 thumbs up.

star trek was great it was an excellent reboot and I think it will draw non trekkies to future star trek movies it was just well done all round. The cast did a good job of bringing traits from the original characters to the movie (especially bones) the special effects were good my only gripes are some of what they portrayed was stupidly insulting (atomspheric entry jump?) and that they had to use time travel yet again..however the purpose of the reboot was to also setup an alternate reality and time line so i guess it was needed. It gets 4.5/5 thumbs up.

I also played wolverine on the pc and beat it..twas a fun game with some ok graphics and some nice violence. I bought stalker in the last week of holidays for #10 but haven’t played it much…such a good deal thoug

I saw the hangover last Sunday it was pretty funny 3.2/5 thumbs up from me

Nana died a week ago tomorrow, I went to Sydney on Thursday and spent time with the family before attending the funeral on Friday. The service was short (30mins) and sans religious bullshit which was nice..after we went to pops for drinks and nibbles until later in the night.

I spent the next 2 days down in Sydney with family and visited other grandparents and went to nieces 1st bday party (dumb idea)

Umm yeah done.

So i have been playing much spore, several 2:30am bed times due to the game. I have in the past few days started playing The Witcher as well its an interesting RPG that uses the NWN2 engine and so far has been fun.

I finished watching S4 of b5 with Raina on monday that was good now we have S5 to watch (erk) and then I have to find something else.

I saw Wall-E on sunday it was amusing I would give it 3/5 thumbs up.

So I killed my previous PC and ordered a new one, after it frustratingly got sent to melbourne first it finally made it to me and I have put 64bit Vista on it. The Machine specs be Q9400 @ 2.66ghz, 4GB 1066mhz DDR3, Nvidia GTX260 896MB, Nice Case and 850watt power supply.

I been playing some spore on it as well as moving data around since it got here on monday. its so nice and fast. Below be my creatures.

In other me related news I have been watching b5 and playing around with linux more of late as well as watching muchos other TV especially wth new seasons starting up recently

On friday I had dinner with a friend and watched some bsg it was good times, after that I watched a movie and finally went to bed at 3amish. On sat I went and saw pineapple express, it was a stoner/action flick and was rather amusing I give it a 3.5 thumbs up Rated: ExBmBrLqNAs. Afterwards Jason andI got some beer went back to his place and watched some mighty boosh and Starship troopers 3 which had crapy sfx and was probably lucky to get a 2 thumbs up Rated: ExGrBmRLBsMgFtMcBbSMAn. Then we went to the RSL and then the coast and I left to get a kebab around midnight I think.

Sunday I bought some more dvd’s Robot Chicken season 2, clerks 2 and a triple pack with some kung fu action. haven’t watched any yet but I will at some stage. There was some more beer and might boosh and another movie and then came home.

it was a good weekend, ashame there was no games because I wanted to play games but my computer sucks

So I haven’t posted for a while I think its time for an update

So Karl what have you been up to?

I’ve seen a bunch of movies and watched a bunch of tv shows and spent time with friends. Of the movies I have seen Batman The Dark Knight stood out as the best one this year..what an excellent movie. Others worthy of mention mostly because I enjoyed them Hancock, Indiana Jones 4, Ironman, The Incredible Hulk. Movies that get a mention because you should avoid them Wanted, Love Guru.

On the TV front I have spread the word of dexter and got a few of my workmates and friends watching it, I have watched many a series and am currently watching the weekly episodes of burn notice, eureka, stargate atlantis, the middleman and weeds. I have also been rewatching babylon 5 and for the first time a show called John Doe.

Work has changed a little I am no long doing Level 1 support and my stuff has moved I’m now in the poorly named hosting unit and my duties are primarily System Admin stuff and some higher level support. I have to say the change has been good and bad..there are many things in use that I am now expected to manage that I know jack all about but fake it anyway, but the best part is not being on the phones even if I do have a manger I have to train.

Thats all for now..if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight see it.

Yesterday was the Inaugural Cake Day..that is from last week it was decided to have one cake day a month for each persons bday instead of a cake (or two) for each bday in a month, some months like May have 5 bdays in them..may is a popular month for bdays.

Additionally we were informed that one of the companies considering using the product the company I work for (notice I didn’t use our)  develop is going to see two customers of ours and discuss their experience with us..I let out a loud laugh which probably was unwise. One of the customers is unhappy with us because something they heavily rely on always breaks the other was promised something at least a year ago and its still in development because resources kept getting reassigned from it.

Over the weekend I watched much arrested development its funny…in fact I watched all of arrested development, some dr who and I saw the latest Rambo movie.

Rambo was a very rambo movie, shooting, blood, explosions. Despite the fact Stalone is 62ish now he still did pretty well in this movie it was a good action flick i give it 3 thumbs up.

I hate mondays and I miss the weekend.

I watched a bit of classic dr who this weekend, some sg-1 and shoot em up again it was pretty good..also played some hellgate london which is fun but shits me at times when it crashes in the middle of kicking some arse and i have to play through the same levels over and over again.

Well I worked back last night fortunately only 30 mins not too pleased about that. When I got home I watched some classic Dr Who and stuffed around a little on facebook ate some reheated pizza. Later on Raina came over and we watched the Shawshnk Redemption, we had both had a few questions on it on facebook when doing the movie quiz and she had read the book a few weeks ago and bought  the dvd last week.

I enjoyed the Shawshank redemption, Morgan Freeman was great as usual and while I am not a fan of Tim Robbins he was good in the movie. I give it 4.2 thumbs up

After Raina Left I played Hellgate london until about 4:30 then went to bed.

Well another day and I am at work..damn I hate work.

Last night I went to Raina’s and we had some nachos and watched some very funny Boston Legal and Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles.

TSCC is ok, Summer Glau is good as a Terminator, Lena Headly however and the way the writers are portraying Sarah Conner is not ok. Sarah Conner wouldn’t be concerned about killing someone to protect John, She would be concerned if she killed them too slow or made it too drawn out. The Sarah Conner from Terminator was hardcore not this soft whiner (who finally beat someone down) the writers so far haven’t exactly been portraying Sarah Conner, I hope the episodes to come do a better job. Sarah Conner is Hardcore Tough and would willingly enter a fight with anyone and kill anyone who tried to hurt John.