Name our Manx, Watchmen, Economics, Stuff

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caseopaya and I would like to welcome the newest member of our household. An, as yet, unnamed Manx kitten. He's integrating well with the rabbits, but hasn't met the rats yet. Help us el-jay! Help us name our cat.



Went to see Watchmen last night. It has some changes from Allan Moore's classic comic series of superheroes and the very real fear in the early 1980s of nuclear war, but the changes don't alter the storyline or theme and indeed the one big change at the end actually makes much more sense (big credits here to the screenwriters, who must had balls of steel to try this). It is that the core content was included in the 170 minutes and the charactre portrayals as pretty good well, especially Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. I suspect that history will largely absolve Zack Snyder's pretty average effort with 300 with this film. A genuine pity that Pop Will Eat Itself's Def Con One wasn't included in the soundtrack.

An inordinate amount of time was spent this week writing Normative and Postive Economics: An Isocratic Sketch, an attempts to reconcile, or at least find appropriate types of economic activity for socialist and capitalist means of ownership and planned or market means of distribution and exchange, and at the same time recommending the socialisation of income from natural resources. Comments invited. This week I also joined Amnesty International Australia. This is an organisation I joined and let my membership lapse several times over the past twenty-five years or so. This time, I've checked the box for 'renew every year'; the wonders of modern technology!

Recently lokicarbis had a good idea for extending the functionality libraries; I have been playing with since Koha since then, which is great one you get the right version of Perl installed (*mutter*, *mutter*). In more Loki-related news, I'm looking after several crates of RPGs for him; at the same time, I've finally gotten around to cataloguing many extras that I have and am putting these up for sale on RPG Review. I also have a big collection of stuff that I just want to give away; including an Encore W255 Acoustic Guitar, a whole bunch of VHS videos (including series one and two of Friends.. uh, yeah), a lot of IT books including Microsoft MSCE NT books, Visual Basic books, MCDBA SQL server 7 and Oracle 8 books, a collection of 3D Studio Max guides etc. etc.

Comments

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

He kind of looks like a Vincent to me. Then again, I have a bad habit of naming my animals perfectly serious human names (Logan, Connor, Penny)...and then turning around and calling my human kids 'Boo and Cookie'. =)

[stawberi.livejournal.com]

There was a Manx kitten in an Enid Blyton story. It was called Mankie.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

I'd consider that cat a Tamara, but... I already jumped on the bandwagon to name one friend's pet, so that's probably my quota for the year.

It's interesting seeing the reviews of Watchmen across the board... very varied.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Oh Enid, oh dear... :)

I was thinking about Manannan from which some say the Isle of Mann was named after..

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Vincent? As in Vincent Price? :)

There is a good argument that felines deserve surnames...

[mundens.livejournal.com]

You want to get rid of an Encore W255? Damn, wish I was over there, they're one of the best knockabout guitars out, with nuts and machine-heads better than a lot of premium brand guitars!

Would be keen on your "Fine" Southern Mirkwood, Angmar, and Rangers of the North MERP supplements though.

While I think about, do you think Koha is worth thinking about for personal use? Or is too heavy-weight for that?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

The biggest criticism from reviewers is that it was too faithful to the comic; which I agree doesn't say too much for the director's imagination, but I am very glad that was the case. Watchmen was already a work of great imagination, and among fans there was some concern that it could easily turn into a train wreck. By being relatively modest in the changes (and making one big change that was correct in the narrative) that were made the integrity of the original is maintained.

At times I tried to watch it imagining I had not read the series, but that didn't work. However, caseopaya who is in that category however says that the film still worked well.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a great guitar but I just don't use it. So far better it is in the hands of someone who will. :)

I'll put aside those MERP books for you tho'...

I think Koha would be a bit heavy for personal use, but that's just a personal opinion :) There's certainly plenty of people who have said they use it for their own libraries..

[severina-242.livejournal.com]

Mortimer? Macintosh?

Is this a rescue puss, or did you just fall in love? Sooooo cute!!

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Or, indeed, Pop Will Eat Itself's Can U Dig It.

[ironed_orchid]

Cute kittiness.

I can't think of any names which aren't bad puns.

[crankynick.livejournal.com]

How about Magog, then?

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[keith418.livejournal.com]

Dix.

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

Nope, we took a drive to Lara in order to see Manx kittens, then this one sort of picked us, he purred as soon as Lev picked him up :) And seemed to enjoy the drive home too. H is a little purr ball!

[aurickandrien.livejournal.com]

I think I'd go with the little fairy tale creature vibe and call him Goblin

[kallistos.livejournal.com]

Tcp, I really liked your summation of economics. Kudos for the rather clear and effective descriptions.

[dodgethis.livejournal.com]

What a charming little guy! I've always wanted a cat called P.O.T.U.S, but maybe that's just me.

[absinthetears.livejournal.com]

hmm Domino, Alfred these are names I can see being worn well. Callisto also not sure why. :)

Glad he is a freind of the bunnies. *grins*

Found a home for your guitar!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Lev, happy to give you guitar a new home.

Wayne

Kitteh

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

Where have I seen that look before?
http://members.ii.net/~drmellis/alex-de-large1.jpg
(Sorry first link I could find)

So rather than Alex, how about 6?

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

It certainly would have fit better than that godawful LOUD BLAND EMOROCK they spewed all over the end credits.

Dylan cover or no, it just didn't fit with the rest of the film at all.

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Magnificat (Maggie for short)?
Charlemagne (he looks like a Charlemagne)
Herne (if he is a hunter)
Chaucer (though he has no tale...) (Geoffrey is also nice, and has resonance with Christopher Smart's poem about his cat Jeoffrey)

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Cat name: Gygax

I agree with your review. I'm so glad they didn't go with the graphic novel's ending. There just wasn't enough room in the film to foreshadow it properly, so when it happened you'd have the audience laughing and throwing things.

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

Fluffit!

[blind-sublime.livejournal.com]

Karloff *nods*.

But Vincent is good too.