Things that annoy Roridge, and other junk

Might actually be the greatest song that I ever heard.

Weezer (The Red Album) Deluxe Edition

With this song Weezer have basically INVENTED music... it was all just tuning up before then!

Ror (oh baby, i've been told that im goin crazy)

Is it possible that The Beatles were really time travellers from the Future?
Is it possible that The Beatles were putting sly (enough to avoid a paradox) references to the future into their music?

Magical Mystery Tour

What leads me to believe this is the song from The Magical Mystery Tour  "I Am The Walrus".

There is a line, not too far from the end that starts "Expert texpert" - Is it possible that they knew the future and therefore future technological advancements and the invention of SMS messages AKA Text messages. With the common verb to Text, or Texting. The noun for someone who is very good at Texting being a Textpert (or an expert working for a text (SMS) based information company)???

I clicked back on my generic mp3 player ;) and listened to the song again, and to my surprise that full line goes "Expert texpert, choking smokers, don't you think the joker laughs at you?"

OMG!!

How could The Beatles possibly know that there would be a mass ban on public smoking in the future? The cosmic joke being the government (the joker) who originally endorsed smoking, now turns full circle and enforces a ban thus "choking" smokers rights??

They couldn't, there is NO WAY The Beatles could have known this unless they were from the Future.

I put this to you bloggers... if The Beatles are in fact from the future is it possible that John isn't actually dead, or George for that matter?
Is it possible that Paul and Ringo just preferred our time? That John went home (or to another time) and when George got ill, he returned to his time when he could be cured (thus faking his own death in an Elvis stylee)?.

Even more interesting than that, is it possible, (dare I mention it), that John Titor was the 5th Beatle?????

I will now embark on a listening to the back catalogue in an attempt to find further teasing references from the future.

What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life?
Submitted by bodhibound.

Fight Club... before then everything was just a copy, of a copy of a copy ;)

Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda. 

Red Dwarf

I figured this was a good title for an auto-biography.

Went to a Borders yesterday evening, and while there decided to get a Starbucks to drink whilst looking around. When choosing from all the different kinds of coffee, and the Christmas coffee additions (which makes it even harder) I found myself thinking "I really fancy Hot Chocolate".

Being the kind of person that I am I immediately thought "is it ok to have Hot Chocolate at Starbucks? or does that make me the kind of person who just goes to Starbucks because it's the (expensive) place to be?" (its not even listed on their web site!!).

Unusually for me, I quite quickly decided that, yes, indeed, it WAS ok for me to have Hot Chocolate at Starbucks, but only because I had gone there under the guise of having coffee and simply just changed my mind. That and it was the only coffee shop in the book store ;)

So I guess it IS ok for me to have Hot Chocolate at Starbucks, as long as I didn't go "hmmm, I fancy hot chocolate, think lets go to Starbucks" or at least this is the restriction I have placed upon myself.

Borders is very thought provoking I think, aI came away with the feeling that it would be pretty cool to work in a book shop.

A possible carrier change perhaps?

Ok, so this one has been bugging me for a few years, and as much as I try and forget it, it still keeps bugging me.

In Grosse Point Blank, John Cusack plays a character, who left his girlfriend on prom night, joined the army, became a sniper, then left and is now a freelance professional killer, right?

He then returns to his high school for their 10 year reunion, and everyone he meets (even his poor mum) has no idea where he was, what happened to him or what he was doing for the last 10 years (TEN YEARS MAN, TEN YEARS... TENNNN YEEEARS, TEN YEARS), right?

So my question is this: How did he know about the reunion?

He got a letter from the alumni association of the high school, which Joan Cusak reads out to him - But how did they know where to send the letter too?

Work that one out Sgt Pepper.

I saw Zodiac last night, and really enjoyed it.

Jake Gyllenhaal is good, although he doesn't look old enough to be as old as he was. And Mark Ruffalo was great too. I saw the need for Robert Downey Jr.'s character, but only in the sense that he is part of the story. Had it just been a film I would have thought that he wasn't quite so necessary.

You really have to be paying attention as things jump in time quickly, and if you miss even one jump it can become confusing as to where they are in the time line. Also some parts of the film I didn't see a point too.

Other than that the ambiance that the film emits is excellent, and is shot so well. Starting like it is in the 70's with the old WB logos and the scratchy film effect, even though it was shot on digital.

Fincher certainly continues to impress me. Although I was slightly disturbed to learn that the murder scenes were filmed on the actual crime scenes.

I was just talking to a friend, and he was telling me something, and I realised that I had already read on his blog!

Is it possible that the internet is killing conversation?

Sometime in the future, in a year of a decade, not too long from our own, two friends agree to meet in a pub/bar/taco bell. They sit down with their drinks/burritos, they get the pleasantries out of the way, and on friend starts to tell a story that happened to them recently, and the other friend stops them short and says "I know, I read it on your Blog".

"oh" says the first friend.

And suddenly they realise that they have nothing to talk about. Which only leaves them to finish their drinks in silence and go home and write a Blog about how no one has anything to say any more.

Therefore, I here by pledge to only blog about things that I would never bring up in a social situation. Admittedly being a geek there are very few social situations, but never the less, welcome to my world of crap ;)

Hi, my name is Roridge and I am a Geek. But with the help of the group I am getting help. I can now go outside in daylight, and I have cut down to 14 hours of computer use a day, and 8 hours of console useage. Every day is a struggle.

There was a time when my friends (even the imaginary ones) would simply point out that my gripes with fiction are stupid because "its just a film" or "its the Simpson's"... and you know, they are right!

However, it doesn't stop it from bugging me. However, I am also the LAST person to go to like a comic con and ask these questions (which would make me a full blown Nerd, and mean years of therapy, something I might never come back from) .

This is a Geek therapy blog, I need this as an outlet, so I don't impose my geekyness on to the people around me.

I am a Geek in need (I should put that on a t-shirt)

Peace Out
Ror

"Halo 3" was released this week - did you get a copy?  What are your early thoughts on this final installment of the blockbuster trilogy?

I like it

However, it feels a little, padded. Like you are walking around in cotton wool.

I have a 40" TV, and it still looks a little.... well... padded.... im not sure how else to explain it, like close. Its not the HUD, i just feel that the weapons take up a little to much room on the screen perhaps... something.

Anyone else? just me?

However, I like the removable gun turrets and the 3rd person view, and I really like way the HUD wraps around the screen, like its in the Chiefs helmet (he he helmet).

Ror