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black dynamite: can you dig it?
posted by
dtra on
6th-feb-2010
ok, well i watched black dynamite last night, never previously heard of it, so it was good, a completely fresh viewing. basically, it's a spoof on blaxploitation films of the 70's, with a bit of bruce lee style mixed in. i'm not going to spoil it, cos i think people should watch it fresh, and have some fun watching it....
hardcore cycling
posted by
dtra on
29th-jan-2010
well, all my cycling stuff has come together, and i've now got the whole package. my indoor trainer (which i won't be using indoors) came in yesterday, and my pedals last week, got some new shoes to go with the pedals earlier this week, and now i am looking like a pro. i managed to get the pedals on (despite the ridiculously narrow nut) and they seem reasonably tight, so i've been practising engaging and disengaging (i wanted to sound special) from the pedals using my new shoes with cleats....
muscle scales
posted by
dtra on
25th-jan-2010
so i saw these muscle mass scales on the 1 day site, and because i'm in a real health and fitness stage right now (ha!!), i decided to get them, only $30 bux or something with shipping. according to the scales i have about 16.7% body fat, 59.4% water, 79% muscle, and 7% bone. don't ask me what the icons mean, apart from male and female, i don't know....
senor chang: el caracter numero uno
posted by
dtra on
19th-jan-2010
ok, so i just caught up on community, and i'm all up to date now, while it's not the office, or even 30 rock, more like on a scrubs level, it's a funny show. and as the title suggests, my favourite character is senor chang (damn no unicode it should be the squiggly n), maybe i'm over-rating him, but i'm putting him up there as the best character on tv right now. who else is there?...
review: avatar... in 3d!!
posted by
dtra on
16th-jan-2010
yeah, so we've all heard the avatar story by now, boy meets alien girl, boy falls in love with alien girl, boy loses alien girl, boy gets alien girl back. went to watch it at the imax, it was probably worth it to see what all the fuss was about, the 3d, and the cgi. the film itself was pretty boring, kind of independence day meets pocahontas (i haven't seen pocahontas or heard the story, so that's a completely ignorant guess)....
sabah, mount kinaba-luuuuuuuuu!! sepilok (orangutans), labuk bay (proboscis monkeys), and beaches
posted by
dtra on
12th-jan-2010
onto the second week of the malaysian trip, and after spending new year's eve in kuala lumpur, we had a flight out to kota kinabalu (kk) in sabah on malaysian borneo on new years day. while ozzy will blame our missing this flight on being hungover (or just drowsy), i like to blame alf (
) for making us be that little bit late 
(i have to admit mine the previous night was one of the smoothest i can remember having, not that i really remember any of them). so we missed check-in by about ten minutes, and had to get the next flight to kk, which was about three hours later....
last edited at 19:48 15th-jan-2010
peninsular malaysia, and langkawi pointers
posted by
dtra on
11th-jan-2010
ok, so it's time for the full briefing of the malaysian trip (the first week anyway), i'll mostly provide reviews and tips in this post, and then, over the next few weeks, as the pictures from the trip start going up on flickr, i'll post some updates here to keep everyone informed of the latest pictures. we'll start with kuala lumpur and i guess, air asia, the flight in was pretty stock standard, except that their seats don't recline (i mean, is there an extra fee to get reclining seats?), i paid extra for the exit row seats, but i think the leg room for the normal seats is fine (obviously there is more than you will need in the exit row), and you also don't have morons standing around your area for no good reason other than to be annoying. we had a flight delayed for three hours returning to kl from kota kinabalu (i suspect because they wanted to try and sell more seats, it was a pretty empty flight)....
late-ish malaysia holiday post
posted by
dtra on
6th-jan-2010
i'll do a full wrap up next week when i get back, but for now, just a few quick notes with a couple of pictures to whet your appetite. started in kuala lumpur before heading up the west coast to penang to meet alf and ozzy. we moved on to langkawi for some beach time then, and got to ride a jet ski that went pretty fast, that was fun....
last edited at 3:33 6th-jan-2010
happy festivus cya in the new year, or before
posted by
dtra on
23rd-dec-2009
finally (por fin if you will) i'm getting back on the road (or in the air), and heading for malaysia for xmas and new years (and my birthday), so possibly the last post from me before the year is out. either way, no big deal, you'll see the pictures of the island/archipelago in about three weeks time popping up. alf and ozzy are already over there, so i'll catch up with them before nye, and then we'll have a grand old time in my first muslim state....
product review, wtf?
posted by
dtra on
21st-dec-2009
just looked at the front page of my web site the other day, and it really just looks like a product review site. anyway, just to get off topic a bit, i thought i'd post something a little different, something that has nothing to do with anything. and the picture is basically what i thought when i looked at my front page, and also, i like lolcats, the picture was taken from this lolcats page....
last edited at 3:22 13th-jan-2010
new mouse: logitech m555b
posted by
dtra on
15th-dec-2009
after a year of dealing with the piece of shit hp bluetooth mouse, i finally went and spent a bit (not a ridiculous amount, but it was the most expensive mouse i ever bought by far) and got me a real mouse. it's a logitech m555b, and it connected up straight away, and let's hope it doesn't have any of the connectivity issues that stupid hp one had. it even has that horizontal scrolling on the wheel (seems to have been a feature for a while), but it's the first i've ever seen of it, very useful when you're scrolling around the finder....
