Bjewelled - Jewels' Journal

Ok, so there are some advantages to having your work's roof leaking massively after eight hours of rainfall (which is continuing). I got to shimy into the roofspace with an engineer.

It's awesome. It's like a birdshit-strewn, gouge-your-eyes-out-if-you're-not-careful, demented version of an obstacle course. I kinda like it. Pitch black and you're dodging and weaving around pipes and air conditioning duct work. Although I did discover that if I want to scramble over something at chest height, I have to do a little run up and jump, rather than do what the engineer and just lever myself up. ;D

On the other hand, there was a serious reason we were in there. Water was flooding through the ceilings in several rooms, at serious risk of shorting out a lot of very expensive equipment. No fun for anyone if that happens. We were trying to do damage control with buckets and paper towels.

I've decided that I really want to play The Secret World if only because it's the same team as worked on Dreamfall (and if you haven't played that game, you really should).

Anyway. To the point of this post. I'm just reposting the SGA_Flashfic fic I did back in July. It didn't get much reaction, alas, but I kinda like it. It occurred to me I should pop it on here before I forget.

( Title: Beneath The Sand )

I've always been of the vague opinion that details in storytelling don't necessarily need to be accurate for good storytelling. Which makes it all the more surprising to me that with the recent horizonssing challenge, I'm having to bite my lanyard and restraining myself from hitting the comment button. This is simply because communications infrastructure is my job, or more to the point, my company's (my own job is in a different division). It totally doesn't matter, because the story's are fun to read, but I want to point out that the BBC no longer has a broadcast division, or exactly what a satellite groundstation looks like.

So, you know. Shut up, me. Because you're a sad loser who doesn't need to spoil other people's fun because you're a geek. Go back to playing the first line game on ff.net or something. ;)

Anyway! Dr Horrible! Oh. My. God. Joss Whedon, you bastard for pulling your usual tricks. If you see this post while the episodes are still up, and you haven't yet seen it, GO SEE IT NOW. And then pay for it when it becomes available for download, because this is the sort of thing that needs supporting to prove to US studios that direct to audience stuff works.

I was astonished at the sheer number of people in the credits, though, given that it was apparently made on a shoestring budget. But then, it's who you know, I suppose. I'm reminded of a video that some clients of ours made for their annual conference. The contribution from the German division of the channel was a take-off on Das Boot, complete with the actual submarine used in the film. German arm is based in the same town, and people knew people, apparently.

It was also a damned funny film, and you couldn't get it on their intranet because they were afraid it would leak to the internet. Wasn't very PC. Very very funny though.

Anyway, Dr. Horrible did lead me to watching The Guild though, which was quite entertaining, even if the last episode was a bit painfully awkward in its dialogue and geekishness. I thought it had otherwise worked up to that point. Still worth a look if you're like me and managed to miss this particular bit of internet culture (apparently I fail for not having noticed this before, but then I only recently became a WoW player).

Speaking of World of Warcraft, I want a Voidwalker plushy, please. Myfanwy's getting lonely.