Greenwich

Greenwich

Go to Greenwich. Everything's free. Apart from the car park (£12.50 for the day), and the Noodle Bar (busy, bench seating, noisy, £17.60 for a Singapore style vermicelli noodles with mixed meat and a mixed veg and tofu noodles, ten veg mini spring rolls, a Tango and a pot of really good Jasmine tea, huge portions). Even then BLISS had a witchy-poo moment and played the car park bandit refund button game to the tune of two quid (reducing the actual cost of parking to £10.50).

The National Maritime museum is big, and interesting and free of charge. We tried the bridge simulator. We didn't get out of New York Harbour before crashing. There's a lot of models, and huge propellers and, well, more fantastic exhibits than you can shake a bargepole at. We narrowly missed death by foreign student coach party. That was a close thing.

Then we climbed the hill up to the observatory, where we tried the trip to Venus. We didn't get out of Cape Kennedy because we'd overloaded the rocket with all the great kit they tempted us into packing. We looked at the meridian (seven quid just to enter the courtyard? Have they not heard of Photoshop?), dodged the builders striking the stands for the equestrian events (cricket conversation: “was there equestrian stuff at the paralympics?” “Nah.” “Why not?” “Shortage of three-legged horses, isn't there?”) and moaned about the steep hill (stupid place to build an observatory, oh, yep, actually the perfect place) and marvelled at the view.

Nice day.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The English version is great. It's much better than the Swedish version (with the bad dubbing) and just marginally inferior to the Swedish version (with subtitles). James Bond does a decent job, and the story does the rest, really. The books must've been a movie-maker's dream. The only dilemmas would've been what to leave out.

Arkology

Listened to this all day:

Reel (CD) 1: Dub Organiser

Reel (CD) 2: Dub Shepherd

Reel (CD) 3: Dub Adventurer

Lee Perry is a genius. Of the highest order (if there's a genius rating system).

Cube

Going to watch Cube with StbFTP tonight. It'll be interesting to see if she enjoys it. It depends so much on atmosphere and the claustrophobic nature of the Cubes and the Cube that I think it'll either be a hit or a resounding miss, with the decision taken to walk out of the front room fleapit early doors.