Time passes

[ewx]

The Veizla was excellent - I'd missed one or two recently, which is a shame. It was also my new camera's first outing; I've already posted the pictures.

I spent a while going through the backlog of photos from my old camera. Most I junked, though I've kept a few. I added a couple more sky pictures, of a particularly colorful sunset last year. Other keepers might turn up on the web at some point.

I watched From Hell on TV. It's a very bad adaptation of a very good graphic novel. Don't bother.

Karate is full of fairly new stuff at the moment: we're still getting to grips with jyu-ippon kumite techniques, and starting to learn Bassai Dai. (The current set of basics are pretty much unchanged however.) It'll be six months to the next grading.

Work is busy - a key deadline is fast approaching. I'm struggling with a mysterious bug, with the same code apparently doing different things in different contexts. A couple of days of bug-hunting have led to a one-line fix.

Comments

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting to hear what all the other excuses were :)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I quite liked From Hell (must have been the Johnny Depp and Ian Holm influence) but I've never read the novel.

[sparrowsion]

I think it's one of those things where you've got to be very careful in distinguishing between an intrinsically bad film and a bad adaptation—where it clunked at me was where the changes didn't go far enough in response to Depp's Abberline being so unlike the book's (and history's) Abberline.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I thought there was some nice visuals towards the beginning. Apart from that I didn't think much of it as a film in its own right. As an adaptation of From Hell, or as a speculative account of the Ripper murders, it sucked even more than that.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Borrow it some time if you like. IIRC beckyc still has my copy.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I still have the notes for mine somewhere.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I might do, if I remember. Ooh, I wonder if the library nextdoor has it. Meanwhile kaet and I just got up to Comes The Inquisitor (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/043.html).