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18th June 2007

What I’ve Been Doing Today - 2007-06-18

  • 0838 - Today’s Car CD - Bruce Cockburn “Bruce Cockburn” - great Canadian acoustic folk rock debut from the early 70s #
  • 1549 - Just had my 71st delivery for the year. Considering I had just short of 100 last year, it’s not a bad effort #
  • 1635 - finally leaving work now. Ended up being a long day #



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18th June 2007

More Coffee, Less Gout

It’s the Coffee, Not Caffeine, for Gout Prevention — HealthandAge

Came across yet another story today on the health benefits of coffee. This time it’s a study that showed that regular drinkers of four or more cups a day had a 40% lower risk of developing gout than non-drinkers. Interestingly this benefit seemed to not be due to caffeine but to some other unidentified component of coffee. Drinkers of decaffeinated coffee still got some gout-reduction, whereas tea drinkers did not.

My home espresso machine has been out of action for a week now (was blowing off too much steam) and is off being fixed so I’ve been in a coffee drought, forced to drink cafe and instant coffee - I can almost feel my big toe starting to ache already…



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18th June 2007

The Last King of Scotland

Less than 3 weeks to go now until we head off on our trip, or to put it another way, 13 more days of work. The first, and most important, stop on our journey will be Kampala, Uganda, where we will again visit the Sanyu Babies Home.

It’ll be good to get back to Uganda again. My enthusiasm to see the country again was piqued last night when we finally got around to watching the Last King of Scotland DVD which was filmed almost entirely in Uganda. In addition to the film itself we watched an excellent featurette about Idi Amin, and the movie’s treatment of him. Much of the countryside, architecture, and some of the city sites were very familiar. Can’t wait to be there again.

As for the movie itself, it was very good. Forrest Whitaker’s Oscar winning performance as Amin was superb, and James McAvoy (aka Mr Tumnus in Narnia) was excellent as the central character Dr Nicholas Garrigan. Having read the book on which it was based though, I must say I was a little disappointed. In many ways the plot deviated significantly from the book - many key events and characters were left out entirely and certain events were completely changed. There’s always a challenge in making a movie out of an excellent book and while this movie certainly is very very good, I’d have to say the book is much better. If you haven’t done either I’d say watch the movie first, and then read the book - that way you might not find the movie to be a bit of a let down. You can read my initial thoughts on the book from last August here.

Aside from that the weekend was pretty good. Owen’s soccer match on Saturday was an intense, high standard game (well by 6 year old standards it was), and we spent the afternoon shopping before watching the classic movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Sunday at church we had an excellent sermon preached by Pastor Julie and then went up to our nephew Jason’s 4th birthday. Almost a shame to be back at work but I’ll just keep counting down those days - 12 work days to go after today…



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18th June 2007

WOTD - Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Metalocalypse is an animated television series on Adult Swim created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. It has been described as “Spinal Tap meets Scooby-Doo meets Norway“.[1] The series was originally pitched as Deathclock, but the name could not be used due to an existing trademark. The show and the main characters’ band were then renamed Dethklok. The show’s title was then extended to Death Clock Metalocalypse, although the starring band still retained the name Dethklok. The crew finally shortened the title to Metalocalypse because the extended show title was too complicated.

The show’s first season consists of twenty eleven-minute episodes, the first of which premiered on the Adult Swim Fix on August 4, 2006, and on Adult Swim proper the following Sunday. According to AdultSwim, Metalocalypse has been renewed for a second season consisting of twenty episodes to begin airing in late 2007.  [..read more..]



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