The Rule

The Rule

I don’t pretend to be as choosy about my film watching choice, I’ll watch almost anything.

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Except “Brides Maids” Annabel and I started watching that movie a couple of weeks ago and we had to stop watching it after half an hour because it was so bad. The horrible thing is that in a way Brides Maids fits this rule, the women discuss each other, dresses, food, farting, getting along.

Sure there is talk of men in the film but it’s in the back ground. And yet it’s still an absolutely awful movie. The characters are:

  • The bride to be, whose defining feature is that she is getting married.
  • The main character who is unlucky in life and love and everything. Also she’s jealous that her bestest friend in the whole wide world has other friends.
  • The annoying one who’s only just married.
  • The annoying one who’s married with kids.
  • The one who is a female version of Zach Galifianakis’ character from the Hangover.
The movie had no redeeming features what so ever, which is a shame because it was hyped up to me as being better than The Hangover a movie I didn’t think I’d like but ended up really enjoying.

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The Avengers Has Turned the Internet Shawarma Crazy

Image: Shawarma near damascus from gomideast.com

Words cannot describe my love for shawarma, if you aren’t familiar with shawarma it’s chicken or lamb or more recently beef cooked on a huge rotating skewer rolled up in flat bread with some vegetables sauce (Garlic sauce or tahina depending on the meat) and occasionally french fries (Although I think the french fries are not part of the traditional recipe) and it is what I grew up eating. It’s a staple food in the middle east, it costs about 50p (I reackon 75 cents?) and it absolutely delicious.

I’ve had shawarma in London, Glasgow and even Tokyo I think if you told me I could only eat one food for the rest of my life I’d pick shawarma. But enough about that. I’ve noticed the internet has picked up on shawarma because of a passing reference to it in the Avengers.

This can only be a good thing as it will hopefully lead to shawarma being more mainstream, which means that I will have access to it wherever I go!

Image from Do-Nut-No
T-Shirt on Be Obscure
T-Shirt On Redbubble
Another T-Shirt on Redbubble

 

 

Learn Koreans in 15 Minutes, Or at Least How To Read It…

I love linguistics and I love learning about different writing systems, Ryan Estrada has put together a webcomic that teaches you how to read Korean, it’s actually quite simple, unlike Chinese or Japanese Kanji, where the character has next to no relation to the sound; Korean characters are actually logically made up of sounds. You just need to know how to read the different sub characters and put it all together. Have a look:

Voltron Star Shooter

Voltron Star Shooter, originally uploaded by John Kratz.

Screw my 500D I want one of these! It’s a Voltron figuring that transforms into an SLR camera!

When I was I kid I used to love Voltron and I would have killed for this. The top part is (was) a working film camera, albeit not SLR and the SLR lens is a fake.

Come to think of it maybe I think I’ll stick with the 500D… But if this was digital I’d be there…

This reminded me of reflector a set of three transformers who joined together to form a camera, I remember it being a send away for toy int he 80s, I had it but I think I broke it 🙁
Day 82! - We Are Reflector (September 4, 2007)

Microman Micro Robo Camera Robo

Plastic 52: Week 37

Also some people have put up some amazing photoshopped camera robots on flickr like this one:
Camera Transformers

And this one