'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe

Sometimes, the algorithm finds the perfect video...

We were nattering at pasta night and jonners99_uk mentioned that he'd been trying to teach his son to say "In the Land of Mordor". Of course, there is only one possible reaction to that...

( They're taking the hobbits to Isengard! )

Things then escalated and many classic Youtube videos were deployed...

( Why is the rum gone? )

( VeggieTales: The pirates who don't do anything )

( Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise )


Anyway, on to the games! We were a bit thin on numbers for tonight, so Beth dug out some games that we don't often play due to having too many people and first up was Dixit. It's a nice easy game to play, with absolutely beautiful artwork on the cards, and we managed to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful combinations of clues and cards. I have to admit, I almost want to buy this just for the art. elemnar managed to storm ahead early on and won with a hefty lead.

Dixit went fairly quickly so we had time for a another game - Takenoko, which hasn't come up at pasta night for probably over a year. This game is much more complicated, revolving around placing tiles and manoeuvring a gardener to grow bamboo and a panda to eat it, and the lateness of the evening showed as some of us started making silly mistakes. I didn't feel that I was doing all that well at it, but did manage to score the bonus points for being the one to end the game and when we added up everything I was joint first with elemnar! Go us!

Sharing is Caring: Day five
For one week, recommend/share:

• Day one: a song: Tattered Slippers (by DarkeSword), a remix of Midna's Lament from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess


• Day two: a picture: West pier (taken by me)


• Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic: you get two today, the Zelda fanfic The Mirror's Twin and the Sheikah (by the Aku Soku Zan Syndicate), and the paper book The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (by Russell Stannard)


• Day four: a site: pouet.net, an enormous portal for the demoscene. I'll even recommend a few demos as well: The Product by farbrausch, Lifeforce and Rupture by asd, and Youscope by tvt


• Day five: a youtube clip: to make up for the delay you get a clip: 'Star Wars (John Williams Is The Man)' - an a cappella tribute, and the very funny fanfilm: Legend of Link parts one, two and three (by Obsession Studios)


• Day six: a quote


• Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Edit: found part 3!

pleaseremove pointed me in the direction of this video.

It's of a person known as "the Trainrider", who was a German man suffering from leukemia.


He died from that about a year after the rides in the video.


It's very moving, more so for me as I was doing the sound for a group singing the final song (Knocking on Heaven's Door) only yesterday.