The Empire has a heart

                         
Today sees the premier of the fan film that Star Wars fans have been waiting for. The Parkway Palace Theatre in Jackson Mississippi will play Heart of an Empire at 7pm today as part of the Crossroads Film Festival. tickets are $7 at [...]

Tonight we dine in Hell

“Our arrows will blot out the Sun”
“Then we shall fight in the shade”
300 Spartans against quite a few Persians. It’s quite a well known story from history and it was the subject of that wonderful graphic novel 300 and now the film of the same name. I went to see said film today, and my [...]

So should we stop the World Cup?

I haven’t really mentioned the death of Bob Woolmer here, but I suspect most people are aware of it by now. Bob Woolmer is an ex-Kent and England player, ex-South African coach, and ex-Pakistan coach. An astounding career and one that has meant his death has struck deep in the heart of cricket.
Coaching Pakistan had [...]

Let’s get ready to fly

It’s been a while since I updated you all on the hovercraft and its state of readiness. As it stands work on our wooden hull is on hold and we’re getting our fiber glass craft ready to fly. Thanks to the dedicated work of our team (including Paul and Jordan) the craft, which only needed [...]

Shaping up Well

I’m in, and I like it. About two weeks ago MenZa convinced me, well I say convinced, it didn’t take much, to apply to join Random Shapes. I looked around, got told how absolutely wonderful the people are and applied.
And then two days ago I got mail. And I’m very pleased to say that I’m [...]

Not So Tired

OK, I’m now slightly more awake so I’ll make a post about what I said I would. I’ll start with the cricket. As I said yesterday the West Indies beat Pakistan by 54 runs after Dwayne Smith made 32 off of 15 balls and took three wickets. The West Indian side lost the toss and [...]