Sandeberg Rising

Okay, I didn’t bunk off the afternoon “team building” activity after all, so I’m incredibly sweaty now. And heading home.

Another mandatory company meeting today, though thankfully involving less travelling. It compensates with increased pointlessness though …

Test tweet from mobile.

So I have Twitter. Now what?

So, I’m spending most of the day today in transit to or from Leeds. This is helped by the fact that National Express, who I was surprised to learn don’t just do coaches but trains too, actually provide free wifi access on their trains. Nice! It’s not fast enough for WoW, but it does just fine or general browsing. I wish they also provided power points in standard class like Virgin Trains do, but apparently I can’t have everything.

As for the rest of the day, it’ll be two meetings and a spot of lunch. Is that worth a £220 train fare and a day of not being billable? Who knows…

So we saw Iron Man at the weekend, a nice gentle end to the stag weekend in Bristol before we all had to go on our journeys. I’ll get straight to the point: Despite my initial reservations (It’s Marvel) I really enjoyed it and rate it… Must watch.

It was funny, it worked visually and musically and Robert Downey Jr. pulled it off marvellously. Marvel must be pleased with their first release where they’ve had full creative rights throughout the process and have already signed up all the cast for two sequels with the next one slated for 2010. Stark will also make a brief appearance in The Incredible Hulk.

I originally thought that Marvel would end up shooting Ultimate Iron Man, after all, one reboot should lead into another. Oh no. I read through a copy of UIM in Waterstones on Sunday and it is god-awful. No, instead large reams of plotting are sourced from Warren Ellis’ reboot, Iron Man: Extremis which actually looks quite good.

Slowly but steadily I’m discovering the occasional thoroughbred in Marvels stable, which I still believe mostly consists of nags.

Regardless what the shifty Ferret said, I’m not going to post up my impression of the stag weekend, since it’s pretty much covered in his blog post. Instead, I have the following thanks:

• Thanks to the groom for playing along with good humour and for being the cause for the stag do.
• Thanks to the bride letting the groom off the leash one last time.
• Thanks to the best man for organising the stag do.
• Thanks to the owl man for collecting random tat as souvenirs.
• Thanks to T for going further than he thought he could.
• Thanks to M for moving our drinking up a gear with his lethal drinking games.
• Thanks to A, R and D for their enthusiasm and good laughs.

• And a very special thanks to the girls in togas.

I’ve already started working throough the photos from Friday and will hopefully will have them ready later this week. You guys are actually in some of them!

Yeah, I tend to avoid net memes (AKA following the herd like sheep), but this one tickled me. Below are the top 106 books tagged “unread” in LibraryThing.

The rules:
Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list.

Full list after the break.

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