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Saturday, Dec 15, 2007 - 20:14 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Urgh

Perhaps it would be wise to settle down to several days of completely guilt-free finding of roses to smell. Got started on Claymore after finishing Eyeshield 21, and just completed reading that too. Synopsis: Shadowy nameless organization trains kick-ass female half-fiend warriors (with the requisite bod, looks and gear) to execute the real fiends. Come to think of it, when was the last time I saw a properly average-looking/fat girl in a comic or game? Ugly, stout or downright obese guys are a dozen a dime in contrast. Oh well, it figures that figures like Croft figure in healthy financial figures.


Claire, protagonist. (from Claymore Extra Scene)

The premise isn't completely without precedent - Fans of Dune will catch the similarities with the Bene Gesserit (indeed Claymores are also known as "(silver-eyed) witches"), a sisterhood of frightening abilities, though perhaps they are closer to the Honored Matres in physical/mental balance. Like the Bene Gesserit, Claymores are composed of females only, though for Claymores the reason is that the males were found to Awaken into greater fiends far more readily, while for the Bene Gesserit the males' access to "the part that takes" rather than "the part that gives" in the soul results in them not being able to survive the Spice Agony and gain Other Memory.

If that isn't enough, The Wheel of Time also plays on the same concepts, with the Aes Sedai wielding saidar, the female half of the One Power, while there are almost no male channelers remaining due to the taint on saidin. Now, what did they say about there being nothing really new under the sun? Sadly, Robert Jordan has passed on, so the series will have to be tied up by another author.

Back to the Dune bit, Dune actually has a direct reference in Hellsing - heard of Seras Victoria's Hellsing ARMS Anti-Midian Cannon 'Harkonnen'? Personally I'm not sure if I like this sort of cross-referencing...


What's it with drunken prawns?

Been thinking a little about how to attract users on Facebook now that the App Rush is petering out. Our professor for the module has jokingly pre-empted any attempts with naughty stuff in the information session, but a cursory check on the stats shows that human nature isn't so easily swayed - over a tenth of the whole Internet is pr0n? Wow. A quarter of all search requests are for pr0n? Double wow. This topic was covered (or uncovered) before here, too, so feel free to take a peek. Looking up may not be the answer, unfortunately.

By the way, at least one of our ministers is so morally upstanding as to have never, ever, indulged in this weakness. I guess they do deserve their exceptional pay after all.

Today's EPL predictions - these matches are overshadowed by Super Sunday's Big Four Free-For-All tomorrow, but what the heck:

Portsmouth 1 Tottenham 1
Birmingham 1 Reading 2
Derby 0 Boro 2
West Ham 1 Everton 2
Man City 1 Bolton 0
Wigan 0 Blackburn 2
Sunderland 1 Aston Villa 1
Fulham 1 Newcastle 3

Quite a few of these were plucked out of the air, and the few I have any bit of confidence in are:

$25 on Boro to beat Derby (at 2.12) - over evens for someone to defeat Derby? I'm in (no disrespect intended towards Derby supporters)
$25 on Man City to beat Bolton (1.77) - City will lose at home eventually, just not today
$25 on Portsmouth to draw Spurs (3.20) - Tottenham have got to live up to their potential once in a while



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