Love's Labour's Lost - 2000

An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.

This was really GREAT fun watching tonight. Andrew would have enjoyed the 30's feel with swing dancing and very clever use of famous 30's show tunes. My goodness, this was a really good job. The nice part is they kept Shakespeare's beautiful language.

Dead Pets Are Fun?
http://www.deadpetsgame.com/

To promote a book, called Dead Pets, about pet cemataries, cruel animal death in movies, the stunt doubles that make that happen, pet afterlife and its religious implications and, yes, recipes for cooking pets, book publisher Canon Gate has launched a microsite, with ghoulish music, where you can play "whack a pet with a bat." I'm sure it's all done humorously. I hope.

The music is not bad. Ok, it's slightly amusing. But keep the kids away from this, please.

I need an Athens account! Not for myself, I just need to use someone's account briefly to get a couple of files. But it's now 10 days that I have been asking, even begging friends, aquaintenaces, hell, I've even pleaded to strangers! But no Athens account.

So what, you may ask, is an Anthens account. Simple, it's a sort of clearinghouse/gateway to a wide set of information and research databases in the UK. The entire thing from research to databases/archives to Athens.org are paid for with taxpayer money. And, Athens accounts are supplied free to UK Univeristy and Further Education students...but NO ONE ELSE.

BASTARDS - ATHENS ORG AND ALL ITS MINIONS SHOULD BURN IN HELL

I politely called Athens.org to arrange a short term account. I need the thing for less than 1 day, we're talking a couple hours work here. So I thought, ok, there must be short term accounts or perhaps a 1 time access scheme for people doing research outside the University system - like museums and libraries routinely do.

But NO! You are either a student or you are the dirt under their feet. The man I spoke with in Athens Support actually laughed at me.

Bastards!

There must be someone out there who has an Athens account and can help me. There must be!

Yes, I'm feeling very bitter about this. I do research for other people all the time, come up with the work/help/file/access they need, often desperately need. But the one time I need serious help, I'm banging my head against a wall. I'm really frustrated.

OK whoever you are reading this... Can you help me get access to an Athens account?

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You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

Damn, damn,damn, I knew there was something I was supposed to buy. A new black inkjet cartridge. Damn, I'll have to make sure to buy one tomorrow.

Sadly, I wasn't able to get 1010WINS net radio to work today. It was fine yesterday but no way today. The popup window just freezes part way. This happened previously when I first tried to listen to 1010WINS on the net. I have no choice but to use their screwy non-standard proprietary setup tho. They don't broadcast in any way that I can figure to recieve by any normal standard. Arrgh.

Thank you, lord, thank you ! I was finally able to connect to 1010WINS radio's internet stream. Oh my god I've missed listening to 1010WINS, I've missed having the radio playing in the background all day - IN ENGLISH!

Ok, big sigh of relief. Yes, of course I would prefer a local Basel station -if it was in English. But there isn't any and you get so isolated without people speaking your native language. I love Basel and think it's an incredibly wonderful city, a little gem. But, I can't wait to move to London. And yes, I actually do have a favorite local London morning drive show radio station and for the rest of the day there are several local stations I enjoy listening to.