It's too hot to function. There is something really wrong with Norway; we're all cost, but the climate is like sodding Siberia. And they call this a temperate zone? This climate is bipolar. I shower at least three times a day in very cold water, I only wear scraps of flimsy fabric, I sit completely still in the shade drinking cold drinks and I'm still a sweaty, panting mess. The only reason I'm not naked all day is because the sun hurts my skin more than the heat does. Also, I tried it and got chewing gum in unseemly places.

I got my iPod to work, so I've got The Italian Job, Due South (S3), Eddie Izzard and Sherlock Holmes on my iPod, funtimes on the bus tonight/tomorrow. Because I'm going to Roskilde music festival! Haven't I said? Which will be awesome. I'm sharing a tent with one of my favourite people, she doesn't snore and is practical so it will be good. We will see Madness (MADNESS!!!) and Katzenjammer and Lily Allen and weird Canadian bands play, and get drunk and make fun of Danes and their ridiculous language that is in no way similar to our own.

Then I'm going to Koblenz, Germany, which you silly English kn-ights probably call Cobbles or something equally stupid. (München! Wien! Venezia! Firenze! God, that annoys me. Only english-speaking person I've heard pronounce foreign names correctly is Stephen Fry, and he only does it to show off on QI.) I have no idea what we're going to do there, probably the same old: we drive about in a rented car, look at castles, that sort of thing. I've never been to Germany, so this will be interesting. Mein handy. Durchfall. Gehaben gehaben.

So long, see you in two weeks.

Help! I'm going to be traveling over 18 hours by train next week, and I want to watch videos on my iPod. I use Handbrake to convert the films to m4v, I thought iTunes could play those? But in true iTunes fashion, when I try to import them nothing happens and I get no error message or explanation. Wonderful! What am I doing wrong? The first one I tried worked, but I have no idea what I'm doing different now. Do any of you know what to do, preferably without me having to download seven new programs and a decoder?

I BOUGHT THE DVD. WITH MONEY. I OWN IT. Why can't I just import it straight into iTunes like a CD? This actually encourages illegal downloading. AAAAH.

Check out trf_chan 's linkage concerning the green revolution, she covers it better than I can.

I especially like this: Iranian government say courts will teach protesters a lesson. A lesson? I think they've learned their lesson: never surrender. These people are so brave. I thought history was something that happened to past generations. And it is, sort of. See what this woman says, "No matter who is president of Iran, they would stone me". These laws and mores are medieval, if that. I hope they succeed in not only overthrowing Ahmadinejad and reforming the existing regime but in replacing it with one where everyone is equal and has a voice. I'm not saying they should become like us, but that we are the product of our own revolutions. Liberty and democracy are not western values, as some of us like to think, they are revolutionary values. Can you think of any country whose people have always been free? Do tell, because I can't. And most countries turned out okay and managed to balance religion and the rights of the individual. Good luck, Iran.

Five word meme: get five words, write something. Ask me for five words, it will be funky. Got five prompts from schemingreader , here's what I wrote:
( Oscar Wilde, cake, hair, grandfather, travel. )

I can't pick one, it's got to be a top three list:

Maggie in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Adrian in The Liar by Stephen Fry
Maurice in Maurice by E. M Forster

I would like to say Jane Eyre, but I only identify with her as a child. Wow, I need to read more books by female authors.

I nailed the Hemingway/Faulkner presentation. Queen Mary, here I come!

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Imaginary conversation with my boss:
Me: "Hi, I can't be at work today."
Boss: "Why not? Are you ill?"
Me: "House is going crazy, you see, and it makes me cry."
Boss: "That's too bad. You should get some sleep."

Real conversation with my boss:
Boss: "Are you all right?"
Me: "Er. Yes."
Boss: "Are you crying?"
Me: "Er. Yes. You see... House is going crazy."
Boss: "Who is House, someone you know?"
Me: "Er- yes. I'll just go wash my face now."

I'll never watch House on my iPod during breaks again.

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New Sherlock Holmes trailer. I don't really object to the action or that they're all American. I like that Holmes and Watson fight like an old married couple, and his new and improved lockpicking gear. What bothers me is a) his HAIR, LORD, Jeremy Brett is turning in his grave! and b) the slapstick and horrible jokes. I mean, Holmes is classy. Holmes does not make inane "release" jokes. What makes me insanely happy is that someone has finally bought a clue that Watson is a sexy devil. He's not old, dull and portly, he's young, fresh out out of the military and has shagged a hundred people or so.

Not shaggadelic:



A bit more shaggadelic:



I'd do him anyday:


Well, Ian Hart is delish as well, and he had some smarts on him in the 2002 HOUN, so here's hoping this Watson will be more true to the original: not an idiot, merely a more conservative thinker than Holmes. Without him, the readers wouldn't be able to relate to Holmes at all, especially the 19th century readers. Anyone would look stupid next to Holmes.

CONCLUSION: JOHN WATSON IS AWESOME

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Well, now I've got a header, but it looks like crap. I want it to be part of the layout, not above it. Can't I get the header where it says "wanna see my lightsaber"? And I'd like something cooler than this wee thing. Do you know of any cool header communities?

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