Now this is amusing – a couple of Canadian teens have sent a lego man into space. Well, near space. They strapped the lego man and a camera to one of those high altitude balloons and launched it, getting to the edge of space – and they were able to recover the lego when it [...]
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Lego Men In Space
Posted: January 29, 2012 in GeneralTags: lego, space, space travel, video, youtube
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The Hobbit Trailer
Posted: December 22, 2011 in fantasy, General, MoviesTags: movies, peter jackson, The Hobbit
The Hobbit trailer is out! Of course now we have a 51 week wait until we can watch it, so in the meantime keep hitting replay. And then we have to wait another year for the second part. One of the memorable things about the book is that it has a lot of songs and [...]
Plans For The Rest Of The Year
Posted: November 23, 2011 in Dawn of Wolves, General, winter wolves, writing, writing updateTags: fantasy, fantasy writing, novel writing, winter wolves, writing, writing update
End of the year is rapidly approaching and I still have a few things on the list that I want to see done by then, so I’d better knuckle down and get them done. First up is to finish the re-edit/re-write of Winter Wolves. I’m down to the last 2K to go, so hopefully won’t [...]
Baker Rifle and Brown Bess Musket In Action
Posted: August 9, 2011 in GeneralTags: 95th Rifles, baker rifle, musket, Napoleonic Wars, video, youtube
While looking through youtube yesterday, I came across a series of videos made by the 2/95th Regt (Australia) – a group of Australian reenactors based on the famous 95th Rifles, written about by C. S. Forester in Death to the French, and by Bernard Cornwell in his Sharpe series. In them they test the Brown [...]
Trailer for Second Half of 2011 Doctor Who Season
Posted: August 1, 2011 in GeneralTags: doctor who, tv shows, video, youtube
We have a trailer now for the second half of this years Doctor Who season – can’t wait. Lets see, we have Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Hitler, Rory punching Hitler, what looks like the eye of the Face of Boe and possibly River being eyepatch lady.
More news from The Hobbit
Posted: July 23, 2011 in fantasy, GeneralTags: dwarves, facebook, movie, peter jackson, The Hobbit
If you head over to Peter Jackson’s facebook page, he has added further material relating to the upcoming The Hobbit movies. In particular are two new production videos, and also photos of all thirteen dwarves – Thorin, Balin, Dwalin, Kili, Fili, Oin, Gloin, Ori, Nori, Dori, Bifur, Bofur and Bombur – in all their glory. [...]
Jeeves and Wooster
Posted: May 30, 2011 in GeneralTags: Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse, tv shows
I’ve recently stumbled upon a TV show called Jeeves and Wooster – and wish I’d known about it earlier. It was actually made twenty years ago – staring a much younger Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie – and was based on the Jeeves series of novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, and of [...]
The first theatrical trailer for the new Conan the Barbarian movie has been released, the one starring Jason Momoa, not Arnold, which is due out Aug 19th. As a big fan of Robert E Howard’s works, I am looking forward to this – it looks more true to the source material than Arnold’s version did. [...]
News from the Hobbit Front
Posted: May 2, 2011 in GeneralTags: facebook, peter jackson, The Hobbit, video
Over on facebook, Peter Jackson – director of The Lord of the Rings – has posted his first video from the set of The Hobbit. Looking forward to seeing it – and also more videos from Peter Jackson as the filming continues. Head over here to see it.
