Lone Locust Productions

Category: General

  • Biggles Buys a Book

    If you’re like me and you’ve watched a lot of British television you’re bound to have seen references to Biggles (that’s Major James Bigglesworth to you) – the quintessential British air ace.

    Biggles is a fictional boys-adventure series of books spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s.

    However, if you’re American, even if you’ve heard of Biggles, you’ve never been exposed directly to him.

    Imagine my surprise when I ran across this uncommon book at a used bookstore.

    I’m really looking forward to reading this book. We’ll see if I feel the same way when I’m done.

  • Avon’s Smile

    Computers

    I can’t do the smile in a blog post, but… despite it still showing up on my shared computer list, Liberator, my first Mac (Dual 1.33ghz, G4 PowerMac) is dead.

    The naming convention doesn’t make much sense, but our second Mac was Scorpio, my wife’s eMac, now replaced by an iMac (hence the snazzy iMac icon.)

    Liberator had long-ago been “replaced” by Zen, my MacBook, but lived on as an iTunes server. That has now been replaced by my newest Mac, TARDIS. A Mac Mini which is… yeah yeah yeah, bigger on the inside… Well , I’ve just plain run out of Blakes 7 stuff. (And yes, my iPhone is Orac.)

  • Legoland

    No, we didn’t go to Legoland.

    However, while visiting the Apple Store at Chandler Fashion Mall I learned that there is a Lego Store in the mall. How cool is that?

    So, as James is really hot on Lego Indiana Jones, we thought it might he time to graduate the kids up to Legos.

    After two trips we manger to get them a massive Indiana Jones set, which, quite honestly, was too complicated for the kids, a couple of small figurine sets (Batman and Indiana Jones), a 50th anniversary set which was much more general, like the sets I had when I was a kid and finally, since we had no good place to play with them, a Lego table.

    Legos are still cool, but I still can’t produce a reasonable facsimile of the starship Enterprise.

    Hmmm, wonder if we have enough blue to build a TARDIS?

  • Library Science

    Library science has always fascinated me. First, because I love books, second because I’m an extremely disorganized person.

    It always seemed simple enough – far too simple to be something you actually need a college degree in.

    Now, finally, I understand why!

    You’ve got to be trained professional to install fish tanks in the Library and then put books in them!

    Brilliant! That would never have ocurred to me. I’m too stuck in the whole, “books on bookshelves” paradigm.

  • Last of the Dodos

    How sad! Did I today see the last of it’s kind?

  • Moffat on a Hat Trick

    And this couldn’t be any more richly deserved…

    Future Doctor Who Executive Producer Steven Moffat has scooped his third Hugo Award in a row. Blink, written by Steven and directed by Hettie Macdonald, beat off strong competition from Paul Cornell’s two-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Catherine Treganna’s Torchwood episode Captain Jack Harkness to be voted Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. [From BBC – Doctor Who – News]

    …although, if those episodes listed were his only competition, a copy of the phone book could have won.

  • 007 on Top

    007 on top

    I happened to hit the wrong sort order today on my iTunes, bringing the “most played” songs to the top. I must say, I was a bit surprised at the results.

    I can only imagine that I must have put a 007 playlist on and left for vacation.

    Only one non-007 song cracked the top 35 – the theme from the Return of the Saint. OK, I know why that one’s up there.

  • Fresh & Easy Chopsticks

    We just picked up some California rolls at Fresh & Easy and the package comes with these disposible, collapsable chopsticks.

    Half plastic, half wood – how green can that be?

    Update: Here’s a picture of “green” chopsticks. 🙂

  • Bonekickers

    I just watched the first episode if a new BBC series entitled Bonekickers.

    It’s about a team of archaeologists.

    I have but one question to ask: Do they cast and write these shows just to create material for Dead Ringers to send up?

  • More sleazy union tactics

    Tomorrow, the Fresh & Easy near my house will finally open (it’s about 8 months late).

    Once again, the scumbag union – with obviously way too much money at their disposal – are canvasing the neighborhoods, leaving glossy fliers to try to sabotage Fresh & Easy’s business.

    I suppose that’s what unions do, isn’t it? Try to eliminate competition to artificially inflate their own profits.

    So far, they’ve failed on every front. They tried to get the liquor licenses denied, they’ve canvased adjacent parking lots to newly opened F&Es trying to scare away business and now they’re sending out fliers trying to scare people about the quality of produce.

    They have big cajones to try to use produce handling scare tactics just weeks after people were dying of salmonella from produce probably sold in the very stores they’re trying to protect.

    Scumbuckets.

    I love the requirement that the people who distribute these things have to identify themselves – in this case it’s the United Food and Commercial Workers.

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