In Other News
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineA separate post for everything else. Stuff in the news.
The General Election has been announced for 6 May. So a whole month of suffering all the right-wing loons who crawl out of the woodwork (no web link because it's all over the place) :(
Corin Redgrave dies at age 70 I know he'd been ill in recent years, but :( And Four Weddings And A Funeral was only on TV on Sunday. The only other thing I know him from is the BBC's Persuasion from the mid-1990s, he played Sir Walter Elliot as a totally unspeakable upper-class arse. If you haven't seen this, I do recommend it very highly - also stars Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Simon Russell Beale, Susan Fleetwood and Sophie Thompson.
Dawn French and Lenny Henry split after 25 years of marriage Double :(
Discovery is in orbit and things are progressing well, but the Ku band has packed in completely - won't send or receive, so no onboard coverage on NASA TV. They're going to record the tile survey and edit/compress it in Windows Movie Maker 7 and then send it down from the ISS after docking & hatch open, apparently (cue discussion of PC vs Mac and Windows in general from space tweeps). There's alternatives and/or workarounds they can use for docking without Ku, I guess that's what the training's for. But NASA TV are replaying highlights of the crew's training, or stuff from previous missions in the absence of Flight Day Highlights. It feels like when it keeps raining at Wimbledon and they show you a 'classic' match from 1980.
There are now 49308493840328 potholes on my journey to/from work, more than there was immediately after the freezing weather had left its mark. I think the plan is to wait until the rest of the road is worn down to the level of the potholes and then claim they're "fixed".
The General Election has been announced for 6 May. So a whole month of suffering all the right-wing loons who crawl out of the woodwork (no web link because it's all over the place) :(
Corin Redgrave dies at age 70 I know he'd been ill in recent years, but :( And Four Weddings And A Funeral was only on TV on Sunday. The only other thing I know him from is the BBC's Persuasion from the mid-1990s, he played Sir Walter Elliot as a totally unspeakable upper-class arse. If you haven't seen this, I do recommend it very highly - also stars Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Simon Russell Beale, Susan Fleetwood and Sophie Thompson.
Dawn French and Lenny Henry split after 25 years of marriage Double :(
Discovery is in orbit and things are progressing well, but the Ku band has packed in completely - won't send or receive, so no onboard coverage on NASA TV. They're going to record the tile survey and edit/compress it in Windows Movie Maker 7 and then send it down from the ISS after docking & hatch open, apparently (cue discussion of PC vs Mac and Windows in general from space tweeps). There's alternatives and/or workarounds they can use for docking without Ku, I guess that's what the training's for. But NASA TV are replaying highlights of the crew's training, or stuff from previous missions in the absence of Flight Day Highlights. It feels like when it keeps raining at Wimbledon and they show you a 'classic' match from 1980.
There are now 49308493840328 potholes on my journey to/from work, more than there was immediately after the freezing weather had left its mark. I think the plan is to wait until the rest of the road is worn down to the level of the potholes and then claim they're "fixed".
