Christmas & Winter

  • Posted by Michiel
  • December 24, 2008

Christmas is here! As a family, we never really celebrated it with presents, but because we didn’t have the time to do presents during Sinterklaas, we moved them to Christmas. Looking forward to the next couple of days, should be fun. It also seems that it’ll be freezing quite a bit the coming week, but I don’t think I’ll be doing any skating. Every past winter, when the weather permitted it, me and my father would go skating at least once together. But unfortunately, that won’t be possible anymore. Not that I was really any good at it (I never took the time to learn how to properly go through corners, for example), but I really liked it nonetheless.

Today I finished work on a DVD I’m preparing for my family. I had to redo a large part of it because there were some bugs in the test DVD I burned. All in all it turned out pretty good, although I kept it quite simple. The DVD consists of four videos, three of them taken during family events (birthdays, Christmas) during 1997-1998. I included an extra video I encountered which I hope the ‘actors’ will somehow enjoy. I’m anxious to see people’s reactions; the videos themselves are really fun to watch but some people (myself included) might be confronted with their own behavior in these videos ;)

I bought Planet Earth on DVD last week. I never saw the documentary series before (shame on me), and even though I’m beginning to get slightly irritated by David Attenborough’s voice, I’ve so far really enjoyed myself. The amount of time and energy spent on this series must have been enormous…

I also finished watching the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Although it’s different from most sci-fi I’ve read and seen in the past few years, the first two seasons were very, very good. Unfortunately it’s now beginning to be a bit too floaty and ‘out there’ for my tastes, but it’s still enjoyable.

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Written by:
Ivan
Posted on:
December 24, 2008 at 12:16

“I included an extra video I encountered which I hope the ‘actors’ will somehow enjoy.”
Sounds familiar, have I already seen that one? ;)

I really like Planet Earth, the video quality and cuts are incredibly good. It shows nature in all it’s beauty, that is off course without any humans in the picture at all.

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Written by:
Michiel
Posted on:
December 24, 2008 at 22:06

Yes, that’s the one :)

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Written by:
Iardacil
Posted on:
December 26, 2008 at 21:32

First: Merry Christmas for you.. and I hope you will have some snow. We have little here – not enough for sking but every year we have gone to skh our family..

Is it coincident or not.. but I am watching BSG too.. and got it over season 2.. now on third and it looks like there is coming some weak episodes.. but I love the show.. maybe it is the script – those hard decitions, that dark feeling and those char.. I really like the show.. not that I always have liked sci-fi.. but this one is special for me – it is not just some space thing.. actions.. there is deep story.. and I love those things with stories..

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Written by:
Michiel
Posted on:
December 26, 2008 at 23:28

Iardacil,

Thank you for the Christmas wishes! We’ve said it in a few places already but it can never be said too often! Hope you’ve enjoyed yourself this Christmas! We haven’t had much snow here; we almost never have that around Christmas. Actually, we never have much snow during winter. It is rather cold right now, though… but that’s something else. Too bad you couldn’t go skiing this year, but hopefully you’ll get some more snow later this year. I believe Estonia has more chance at that than the Netherlands ;)

About BSG: it’s not really a coincidence I was watching it too. I read about it in your journal, and since I was planning on watching it anyway I thought: what the hell, why not start now?

I agree it is really, really good. It’s so different from the other sci-fi I have seen so far. The show is very well written, has some superb actors, and is just amazingly exciting to watch! I agree that (starting from) the third season the show gets a bit weaker. It’s still pretty good, but it’s getting a bit less exciting. Like I mentioned, it became a bit too spiritual for my tastes, but I’m still looking forward to the last ten episodes.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment! Really appreciate it :)

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Written by:
Iardacil
Posted on:
December 27, 2008 at 14:37

Thanks, Michiel..

I just did not stopped to wander.. spiritual? Ok.. maybe I have not get far enough in third season but.. I think it was more about spiritual between season 1 and 2.. I mean all the Kobol thing and Roslin..

I yesterday finished “Unfinished business” so maybe I am not yet enough into 3rd season..

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Written by:
Michiel
Posted on:
December 27, 2008 at 23:19

Well, you may not find it that spiritual after all. Maybe that’s not the best description of what’s happening with the series. It’s definitely towards the end of season 3 though, and mostly during season 4 so far. It’s not too bad though, but the series gets a tiny bit less enjoyable because there’s so much of that ‘believing’ stuff going on.