Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Cas

There were a few moments this morning when I didn’t think I would get this Roast written. Settle back whilst I tell you the tale…

I woke up this morning at the ungodly hour of 8.30am - not actually that ungodly I will admit, till you take into consideration that as a rule I am never conscious before 10am at the weekends and, if I am, I make a concerted effort to go back to sleep. But for whatever reason, this morning I just couldn’t get back to sleep so I thought “Sod it! I’ll get up and write the Roast before lunchtime for a change!” Best intentions and all that, because I couldn’t log into Bright Meadow to post the bloody thing. Which kind of threw my morning for a loop! The mystery deepened when it became clear that you could still view the blog, but anything requiring a php script to be triggered (commenting, logging in…) was borked. I could still access the site via FTP but then folders kept randomly disappearing as I tried to edit them and…

You can probably imagine the swearing.

So I have reinstated BrightMeadow2 here at wordpress.com and I expect I will keep on this domain for a little bit till I can be satisfied that all is as it should be. If you read via RSS then I have been sneaky and automatically redirected you, so you don’t have to do ANYTHING to keep on reading the Meadowy-goodness. If you are a non-RSS reader (and I know there are lots of you), then adjust your bookmark to brightmeadow.wordpress.com. That is it. Keep reading and commenting as usual :)

(I will be cross-posting things on both blogs when/if I can gain access to brightmeadow.co.uk to try and keep the archives in as much of synch as possible - keep commenting at wordpress.com though if you can. I’m going to take this as a sign that I really need to upgrade my WordPress install and get that new design sorted. We could be on wordpress.com for a little while!)

What have I been doing in the last few weeks whilst Moose and Neko kept things going with their roasts? Well, not much to be honest. I have had the two weeks off work as I had holiday that needed to be taken before the end of March and spent that time doing bugger all. Sleeping, getting a teeny bit of writing done but not as much as hoped for as my wrists are playing up, going back the Homestead for some TLC from my mum, reading LOTS (I lost count of the number of books I’ve read at about the 20 mark) and sleeping some more. Not blog-worthy I will admit, but total bliss and just what I needed in order to go back into work tomorrow to face the aftermath of the office move.

Oh yes, they moved office whilst I was on leave. Gibber. I’m bad enough when someone has used my desk when I am away - what am I going to be like when they’ve moved building without me?!!!!!??!!!

To keep my mind off that concern, let us on with the Roast. After-all, that is what we are all here for, isn’t it?

Glad to see that Moose and myself aren’t the only ones to go on Stargate marathons

And I complain about having too many books - this guy puts me to shame (and has the funkiest bookshelf in creation!)

It’s been a while since I linked to this blog and I think it’s time I remedied the situation. So many beautiful things to look at, not enough time!

So many questions posed by this small article. Lots to think about, not just the division between phones and cameras and what do we do with all this digital media to share it?

Perhaps in answer to my own question of how I find new books, I have just found out the publisher I am obsessed with has the first chapters of all their new novels for download. Free. Now I just need a way of reading them not on my laptop…

Can’t understand the fuss about Battlestar Galactica? Get the backstory in 8 minutes in this video. Worth it even for those of us who know/love the show as it has some great lines

Michael Chabon, author of the brilliant Kavallier & Clay, on Superheroes and their costumes

30 years of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Wow. And please Mr Fry, let us in on the secret of 42!

I wish my notebooks looked this good

Continuing the Flickr love, have a look at these aerial photographs. Breathtaking and mindbending and gorgeous.

And let us end with the traditional movie stuff for Abi (though she is at SXSW at the moment, lucky so-and-so, so doesn’t really deserve this :P )

Iron Man - now Moose isn’t overly impressed or excited by Iron Man. I’m not familiar with the comic at all, but this trailer just had me giggling with glee and impatient for the film. Admittedly because I adore Robert Downey Jr. but still, it does look rather fine!

Not a movie trailer, more an educational video: Zombies in plain English (this gets bonus points for making me giggle so hard, Moose had to come ask what was going on)

C’est tout for this first roast on wordpress.com. Hope you enjoyed it and I hope you forgive me all the hassle with the servers!

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16 Responses to “Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver”

  1. Bright Meadow » Sunday Roast - You can’t improve on MacGyver, on March 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm Said:

    [...] Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:36 pm Posted in Daily Waffle This post is cross-posted with the alternate Bright Meadow whilst I resolve some server [...]

  2. Moose, on March 9th, 2008 at 1:58 pm Said:

    love the BSG update, very funny commentary.
    Iron Man - I’ll admitt it’s looking a little better, and RDJr has some good lines, but I still can’t see what all the fuss is about.

  3. Cas, on March 9th, 2008 at 4:39 pm Said:

    Glad you liked the BSG video. As for Iron Man, it can’t be as bad as either of the Fantastic Fours, and I went willingly to see both of them, so perhaps I’m not the best judge!

  4. Ollie, on March 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm Said:

    Hope BrightMeadow is getting back to normality. I just thought I’d swing by, say “hi”, drop a link to more weird and wonderful bookcases;, and then slip out the back door quietly. :D

  5. Cas, on March 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm Said:

    You didn’t just use “Bright Meadow” and “normality” in the same sentence did you Ollie?!

    Great bookcases, though if the Crazy Canalman’s plan comes through and I do end up living in a boat, I’ll only be able to dream about book covered walls. And to think I complain about lack of shelf space now when I live in a spacious 2 bedroom apartment!

  6. Edrei, on March 10th, 2008 at 1:55 am Said:

    I’ve always thought that the answer to 42 is obvious or at least he understood what 42 means in Japanese. 42 in Japanese means death. From there on end, the answer to the ultimate question makes sense.

  7. Moose, on March 10th, 2008 at 8:02 am Said:

    so the answer to life, the universe and everything is death? that’s a bit depressing.

  8. Cas, on March 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pm Said:

    Like Moose said, that’s a bit depressing, unless you’re one of those people who subscribes to the idea that death is just the next step in a grand adventure to something bigger and better. But still, it is a little bit depressing.

  9. Swan, on March 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm Said:

    You got a mention on the BBC, Cas! (Ok, it’s a line, but hey, it’s press!)

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7287536.stm

  10. Cas, on March 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm Said:

    I know! I saw, I re-read, I shrieked at Moose to come make sure I wasn’t imagining it, and then I went and hid under the desk because I’m the one who was “complaining”.

    Just goes to show, you never can be sure who’s watching what you say :D

  11. Neko, on March 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am Said:

    Iron Man does indeed look awesome. The trailer is pitch-perfect for the character of Tony Stark as I read him :) And the notebooks were sooo pretty. I wish I could write and draw like that!

  12. Cas, on March 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm Said:

    Neko - I tried to do neat handwriting in one of my notebooks the other night when I was writing out a story idea, but it just didn’t work! I need to write fast to get the idea down, but I can’t write fast and neatly.

  13. Neko, on March 11th, 2008 at 6:31 pm Said:

    One of my in character ones is kinda pretty… I shall take some ‘interior’ shots when I grab them all at the weekend. I think some of my site sketches are kinda cool as well, even though I can’t draw…

  14. Cas, on March 12th, 2008 at 10:52 pm Said:

    I try the odd sketch, then get so embarrassed by them I tend to rip them out of the notebook! One sketch, and one only, am I proud of and that’s the all important map. There’s a handy index tab but the notebook is opened to that page so often it falls there automatically now. My sense of geography is so shit that I need a visual reminder of which direction my characters need to walk!

    Look forward to the sketches :) There is something so wonderfully snoop-tastic about getting sneak peaks in other peoples notebooks!

  15. Masakado, on March 16th, 2008 at 8:48 pm Said:

    (the not-spouse-creature actually rousing from his normal laconic state) You mention Chabon, have you read ‘The Escapists’ at all? It’s Brian Vaughn’s ‘tribute’ and it’s very, very good (imho)

  16. Cas, on March 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pm Said:

    Hello and welcome (finally) to the comments, Masakado/not-spouse-creature. No, I haven’t read “The Escapists”, but it has now gone on my list :D

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