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12/29/2002 Archived Entry: "We can rebuild it...we have the technology"

We saw Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for the second time today. Was even better the second time, honeslty. The first time I was really into the CGI stuff, paying extra-special attention to small flaws in the animation (there weren't many), and where they used doubles (or in one case, a stuffed doll!!! I guess two men on a horse, with one being the portly John Rhys-Davies, would be a bit much). My favourite scene? Thank you for asking - definitely the Ents attacking the land around Sarumon's tower. Beautifully done, Mr. Jackson (and your animators).

My favourite scene in the first one was the lady of the woods refusing the power of the One Ring. My god...if I was there I would have pledged my life to worship her in that very moment.

After the movie, we got lost on Annacis Island on the way to Ikea. I was hoping to show Jen the wild rabbits that are all over the place down there. No such luck.

We were very good in Ikea...we bought what we came for and nothing else. Here is what we got (click for popup):
This is our desk before Ikea.
This and this are our desks after Ikea.

I'm very pleased...so much more space for stuff in so much less floorspace. Say what you like about Ikea ("Ikea is Swedish for no-resale-value!", I heard at a party recently), but if you've got a small space and two people with all their stuff in it, you aren't going to be able to get furniture that works in the regular furniture shops...and you are going to pay bucketloads more for that stuff that doesn't meet your storage needs. Myself, I'd rather buy some Ikea stuff that I am not planning on passing down to my friends' kids and have it fill my storage and utility needs than buy some stuff that doesn't do what I need it to do that will last forever.

So...NYAH!!

Quick add on: Ikea has this damned cool online Ivar building tool, which helped quite a lot. And it's fun too.