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Aug. 26th, 2004 10:52 amOh look! It's a new Batman movie.
Aug. 26th, 2004
Beds and Rangers
Aug. 26th, 2004 02:08 pmYesterday myself and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ghostbritain both bought "backpacker" airbeds and battery-powered pumps from a camping shop. Having had a quick go, I have found that the pump is almost but not entirely incompatible with the bed. Rather than having a single large nozzle, the bed is structured like a lilo, with six separate sections that need to be inflated separately, and each has a smaller nozzle, again in the style of a lilo. These nozzles are far too small to fit the adapter on the pump - they're clearly mouth nozzles. After some experimentation I found that the pump's vent fits over the nozzle without the adapter in, which will probably save me a few lungfulls of air, but the whole process is enormously fiddly. I will probably be trying to get hold of a proper airbed before Maelstrom...
In other news, I finally got around to watching Power Rangers: The Movie. It's, yeah, okay. The plot is a fairly standard one for Power Rangers (the Upgrade Needed To Thwart Villain plot, Temporary Substitute Powers variation, with a side-serving of Ninja), the effects are mid-to-high for the period, dialogue is clunky but functional. Cinematography is a great improvement on a standard episode, with the increased budget allowing for more sweeps, pans and general camera motion on effects shots. The movie has, however, won me over with a single element - the "For Emergency Use Only" button. ( Spoiler? ) So, overall, I enjoyed it. The painfully obvious CGI Zord fight is still a lot of fun, and the brightly-coloured ninja costumes were cool. And after all this time Tommy is still the hot. So a general "Thumbs Up" there.
Is it just me, or were Rocky and Adam a couple?
ghostbritain both bought "backpacker" airbeds and battery-powered pumps from a camping shop. Having had a quick go, I have found that the pump is almost but not entirely incompatible with the bed. Rather than having a single large nozzle, the bed is structured like a lilo, with six separate sections that need to be inflated separately, and each has a smaller nozzle, again in the style of a lilo. These nozzles are far too small to fit the adapter on the pump - they're clearly mouth nozzles. After some experimentation I found that the pump's vent fits over the nozzle without the adapter in, which will probably save me a few lungfulls of air, but the whole process is enormously fiddly. I will probably be trying to get hold of a proper airbed before Maelstrom...In other news, I finally got around to watching Power Rangers: The Movie. It's, yeah, okay. The plot is a fairly standard one for Power Rangers (the Upgrade Needed To Thwart Villain plot, Temporary Substitute Powers variation, with a side-serving of Ninja), the effects are mid-to-high for the period, dialogue is clunky but functional. Cinematography is a great improvement on a standard episode, with the increased budget allowing for more sweeps, pans and general camera motion on effects shots. The movie has, however, won me over with a single element - the "For Emergency Use Only" button. ( Spoiler? ) So, overall, I enjoyed it. The painfully obvious CGI Zord fight is still a lot of fun, and the brightly-coloured ninja costumes were cool. And after all this time Tommy is still the hot. So a general "Thumbs Up" there.
Is it just me, or were Rocky and Adam a couple?