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They think it's all over....
Posted by Chris
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Friday, March 27, 2009
...it is now.
Less than three weeks old and already my first missed blog post. Holy Crap!
According to the Bloggers Guide to Blogging, my blog is now deprived of readership and doomed to obscurity. The last few weeks disappear as if they've never happened, the earth will open up and Armageddon has already started.
Oh. How disappointing.
Nothing happened.
Well, nothing happened because of the missed blog post. Something was very much happening yesterday - and that's why there was no news: not because nothing was happening, but because so much was happening there was no time to scurry back and type it all up.
First up, the matinee performance of Waiting for Godot, starring Gandalf and Jean-Luc (Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to the high-brow readers). Let's not forget Simon Callow, who would normally be a headline act in his own right - but happy to play second fiddle to these two giants of both screen and stage.
I didn't know much about the play - except I'd been told the spoiler ending many years ago on the odd occasion I attended an English Literature class (Godot never turns up) and that a lot of "grown ups" think it's boring.
To be honest, a theatre performance with three of the biggest RSC actors around sounded like a nightmare mix of luvviness and backslapping, but it's not every day you get see Gandalf and Jean-Luc live on stage!
What a fantastic performance: Ian McKellen was absolutely natural, Patrick Stewart was incredible and even Simon Callow failed to ham it up (too much) although he very impressively can turn his face purple almost at will. The play was much funnier that I'd expected - even the star turns had to check themselves to stop giggling every now and again. A brilliant performance. It's a shame it's sold out in Brighton - if there were any spare tickets, I'd be straight back in line to buy some more!
Straight after the theatre, there was only an hour to stuff some dinner down then get back on my bike and head off to the Brighton Robot Hack Night at The Skiff.
The turnout was very good and everyone was really enthusiastic about Steve's robot kit. Despite a few mishaps with the superglue (part of the hack was to modify some servos and a few people found that being over-liberal with the glue didn't exactly help to make their wheels go round!) it didn't take long for a few bumper robots to start scuttling around, in-between feet and chairs and coats and bags.
Downstairs, a league game of "shoot-the-bot-up-the-arse" broke out and players were invited to blast a poor defenceless robot up the back end, not just once but three times, and times were recorded in a league table. Despite never having used an air-pump gun before, I thought that my time of 140-odd seconds wasn't too bad. But I hadn't banked on the awesome might of Geek Girls With Guns.
Emily managed an incredible 24 seconds and as she went upstairs to gloat, Julie took to the hot seat and obliterated what looked like was going to be the record for the night, with a staggering score of just 17 seconds.
There wasn't quite the time left over at the end for letting all the new bots loose what had become the play area, downstairs, but as 11pm rolled along and people had to start making their way home, everyone was agreed that it had been a really good night. Personally, I'm already looking forward to the next one in about four weeks time.
Who knows - my PIC programmer might have even arrived by then!
Less than three weeks old and already my first missed blog post. Holy Crap!
According to the Bloggers Guide to Blogging, my blog is now deprived of readership and doomed to obscurity. The last few weeks disappear as if they've never happened, the earth will open up and Armageddon has already started.
Oh. How disappointing.
Nothing happened.
Well, nothing happened because of the missed blog post. Something was very much happening yesterday - and that's why there was no news: not because nothing was happening, but because so much was happening there was no time to scurry back and type it all up.
First up, the matinee performance of Waiting for Godot, starring Gandalf and Jean-Luc (Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to the high-brow readers). Let's not forget Simon Callow, who would normally be a headline act in his own right - but happy to play second fiddle to these two giants of both screen and stage.
I didn't know much about the play - except I'd been told the spoiler ending many years ago on the odd occasion I attended an English Literature class (Godot never turns up) and that a lot of "grown ups" think it's boring.
To be honest, a theatre performance with three of the biggest RSC actors around sounded like a nightmare mix of luvviness and backslapping, but it's not every day you get see Gandalf and Jean-Luc live on stage!
What a fantastic performance: Ian McKellen was absolutely natural, Patrick Stewart was incredible and even Simon Callow failed to ham it up (too much) although he very impressively can turn his face purple almost at will. The play was much funnier that I'd expected - even the star turns had to check themselves to stop giggling every now and again. A brilliant performance. It's a shame it's sold out in Brighton - if there were any spare tickets, I'd be straight back in line to buy some more!
Straight after the theatre, there was only an hour to stuff some dinner down then get back on my bike and head off to the Brighton Robot Hack Night at The Skiff.
The turnout was very good and everyone was really enthusiastic about Steve's robot kit. Despite a few mishaps with the superglue (part of the hack was to modify some servos and a few people found that being over-liberal with the glue didn't exactly help to make their wheels go round!) it didn't take long for a few bumper robots to start scuttling around, in-between feet and chairs and coats and bags.
Downstairs, a league game of "shoot-the-bot-up-the-arse" broke out and players were invited to blast a poor defenceless robot up the back end, not just once but three times, and times were recorded in a league table. Despite never having used an air-pump gun before, I thought that my time of 140-odd seconds wasn't too bad. But I hadn't banked on the awesome might of Geek Girls With Guns.
Emily managed an incredible 24 seconds and as she went upstairs to gloat, Julie took to the hot seat and obliterated what looked like was going to be the record for the night, with a staggering score of just 17 seconds.
There wasn't quite the time left over at the end for letting all the new bots loose what had become the play area, downstairs, but as 11pm rolled along and people had to start making their way home, everyone was agreed that it had been a really good night. Personally, I'm already looking forward to the next one in about four weeks time.
Who knows - my PIC programmer might have even arrived by then!
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