Fujitsu Overlords
The buy-out is through: Today we officially became Fujitsu.
This morning we were each given a Fujitsu notepad, and a gourmet cookie.
We also received an email with a new letterhead from the director containing information which was then contradicted by a second email. Then corrected.
Also, there is a sign in the kitchen that says “Fujitsu 2009!” and “1+1= 3″
I think it’s meant to represent the synergy of our two companies.
But as overheard in the tearoom: “I don’t like the look of their accounting practices”
5 minutes of Alan Rickman fandom
Alan Rickman facts:
- Failed his California driving test at one point for “driving too cautiously through a green light”
- Aww too cute - Auditioned for Chris Barrie’s character Rimmer in “Red Dwarf” (1988)
- I could definitely see that! - When he was a child, he had a speech disability: his lower jaw was very tight, causing his words to be indistinctive and muffled. He still has a slight speech impediment, it is the tight lower jaw which gives him his distinctive drawl.
- This makes me feel a lot better about the ‘do you have an accent?’ questions I get from new people I meet. No, I don’t have an accent, (other than ‘my mother was an English teacher’ regular Australian), I’m just secretly incredibly shy and since I was a child I speak with marbles in my mouth whilst trying to appear cheery.
/ end Alan Rickman facts
Miles to go before I sleep
…
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
But really……are my promises *that* binding? Really? Surely they’d all get over it, right?
Full poem after the cut:
movies in which Jason Statham takes off his shirt and kicks people
It’s like when Defrag occasionally watches live theatre instead of movies in which Jason Statham takes off his shirt and kicks people: you need the bad to appreciate the good.
- Defrag, Australian IT
Fun with context & irony
“If you don’t appreciate the irony, the irony appreciates”
- Seen in a signature on a Snopes discussion board
Unrehearsed
The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
—Sean O’Casey, Playwright
Vague evangelion happy rant
Hmm. Getting to the point where this journal is probably emo enough to merge with my anon live journal…
We went on a huge completely deliciously remastered Neon Genesis Evangelion binge this weekend. And I mean pretty huge – episodes 1 to 18. This is the first lazy weekend we have had in a while, and the last we will get until the next school holidays…
Now I’m 100% ‘It’s about the gameplay, not the graphics’. Az remarked ‘my GOD how gorgeous is that colouring! Look at that animation! How beautiful does it look!’ every 10 seconds which was strangely annoying because all I could think about was how affecting the series was to me on SBS on my tiny telly all those years ago, and of our shelves of Eva VHS set videos, plus the DVD set, plus the remastered set, plus the re-birth movies, plus the manga – but eventually I got sick of saying ‘Gameplay! Not Graphics!’ and admitted it is truly gorgeous.
Only because I know Az loves the series as much as I did, could I enjoy someone making comments like that at all without any kicking taking place!
I’m always in it for the gameplay, not the graphics, and I’m always in Media for the angst, not the giant-Mecha-robot fights.
Although they *are* good…
Death Note
I am missing L.
*sigh*
We finished all of Death Note, and watched the two live action movies on Monday and Tuesday.
Which cheered me up in a bittersweet kind of way.
I am trolling Minotaur for merchandise.
Arieh and I have had many discussions, due to him rooting for Light and me loving L – he believes in capital punishment and I don’t. However in the past few days people have been remarking about similarities with the way Arieh crouches on his chair during all his classes so he can jump up to write something on the board or move around the room all the time. I have L’s eyes. (lol – Hunt eyes as Arieh called them, or, more accuaretly, Grey eyes – haha – since Grey was my nana’s maiden name)
We’re also super smart.
lol
Okay, so I’m ADDICTED to this trope site
A comment from the ‘World Half Empty’ definition page:
The depiction of the world in Se7en is pretty half empty, but I think the last lines of the film say it best:
Somerset: Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldHalfEmpty
A quote from the ‘Creator Breakdown’ definition page:
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. Mencken- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorBreakdown
