Avatar in IMAX 3D

Last weekend I saw Avatar at the IMAX theater at the Glasgow science center. Getting tickets was a pain in the ass as they were selling out over two weeks in advance. It was worth the wait to see it at the IMAX. The huge screen made it seem like you were actually on the planet at times. The 3D effort was cool but at the same time not distracting. I had heard bad things about the plot, but it was fine. A little predictable at times but good enough to keep you interested in the movie.

Missed Fastnacht Day

Tuesday was Fastnacht Day and I completely missed it. For some reason I thought that fat Tuesday was the following week. I don't believe that I celebrated Fastnacht Day in university due to the difficulty of buying anything resembling a fastnacht, but I was planing on making a serious effort to at least find doughnuts that were similar. 363 days to go until the next one...

Update

Since I'm staying home from work today because I came down with the flu yesterday, I figured I could post a brief update of what I've been up to.

I've been on two short business trips in the past two weeks. One to London and the other to Birmingham. I took the 1st class Virgin train to Birmingham. It was a pretty nice train ride with beautiful scenery. The sleeper train was still the more memorable trip though. The city of Birmingham is a different story. It was probable the crapest British city I've been to. I also got the feeling that it was the most American-like city I've been to, but I kept that to myself.

I stayed up and watched the Super Bowl on BBC One. It was really weird without the commercials.

Centralia's final days

Here is an interesting story my local paper back in PA ran on Centralia. Centralia is a town in Pennsylvania with a coal vein on fire underneath it. The government has slowly moved people out over the decades turning it into a kind of ghost town.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/02/centralia_could_be_facing_its.html

Haggis

On Friday night, I went to one of my coworker's flats for dinner. His girlfriend had made haggis. I've had haggis before but hers was better. As long as you don't think about what it is made out of, its actually pretty good.

I've also gotten a new cell phone. I went with the HTC Hero which runs Google's Android OS. I'll post more about it once I get to play around with it some more.

Jellyfish

Today I ate some Jellyfish. That is all

Living in the Arctic Tundra - Redux

Keeping a long story short, I'm back in Scotland after surviving the chaos of Newark Airport being shut down because some Chinese dude crept through security so he could kiss his girlfriend. I was sitting on the plane, had to disboard the plane, and then exit the airport. I sat on a black plastic tray in the baggage claim hall for hours waiting until I could go through security again.

I just happened to be living in Scotland during one of the coldest winters in generations. I used to joke that Hamilton was in the arctic tundra that is upstate New York. Scotland has been just as cold this week as it was in Hamilton. Someone needs to remind me that I need to apply to law schools in warm places.