Google Boldly Goes...

Forgive me for the dreadful title?

It's the 46th anniversary of the original Star Trek series! The first regular episode was 'The Man Trap' shown on Thursday September 8th 1966 at 8:30 - so guess what I'll be watching this evening... well probably the Paralympics actually, but maybe Star Trek in tiny bursts  during the advert breaks.

Google have celebrated with a commemorative Doodle:

Screenshot from Google

It incorporates lots of nods to iconic scenes to keep fans happy, and it's fun. Here's an interview with the guy who designed it: http://www.startrek.com/article/celebrating-46-years-with-a-google-doodle.

This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpCUZ2c4qc shows all of the little animations - it's much more fun to try them out for yourself though! If it's not the 8th anymore then you can find it here http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2012/All%20doodles.

*spoilers alert*

Hats off to Google: they've thought of everything! We are treated to tribbles falling out of an overhead locker, the Gorn fight, the bridge console will cycle through sound effects including the communicator chirrup, they've even reproduced the soft-focus-close-up-shots-of-attractive-female-characters thing for if you click on Lieutenant Uhura at the beginning! (admittedly the latter was a completely unnecessary quirk in filming the series, but since it was there, it's here).

Poor redshirt 'e' gets hit by Kirk's stick bouncing off the Gorn and splattered by the makeshift cannon, but he does manage to survive the 'episode', so he can't complain.

I only wish that 'Google' was seven letters so that there could have been a Scotty letter...

Avengers!

I'm going to come clean here - I have, in fact, been to see this film multiple times since it came out. You'll have to trust me that that is testament to how awesome it is, rather than how desperate I am for excuses to avoid revision.


It is actually more awesome than Kirk thinks he is:

...and that's a pretty high level of awesome.


It was funny, it had snarky banter, it had (pseudo?)science, it had a 'blue stick of destiny', it had LOKI, and a character who, as we learnt in Iron Man 2 actually speaks Latin!!! It basically had everything, including a lack of excessive romance (I'll take banter over romance any day). It was hugely entertaining and I wholeheartedly recommend it - although you might want to watch Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Captain America and Thor before you see it, for character background. 


If you are also now in Avengers-withdrawal - here are some hilarious and cute comics of the characters (this artist is amazing, she also does the Broship of the Ring, X-Men stuff, Harry Potter stuff, Sherlock stuff... I may be a little in love).  

Hello, world

Nice to meet you (:

(Or nice to think you may be spending a minute of your life reading something I wrote anyway.) I'm Erin - just about an adult, but pretty far from being grown up.

I'm quite geeky, excitable (consider yourself duly warned for exclamation mark and capitals abuse) and may be too lazy to update this regularly. I expect I'll be blogging about medical school (fingers crossed I get there), ranting about fandom and adding to the wealth of pointless Internet in my own special way.

Things I like: Biology, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (cue incoherent gesticulation as I fail to convey the awesome), Tolkien (ditto),  Pratchett (there's a pattern here), Star Trek (TOS), Wodehouse, Doctor Who (especially 3, 10 and 11), Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, the Edge Chronicles, waistcoats, pocket watches, 5ml beakers, moustaches, the history of medicine and lots lots lots more. I am very attached to all of them, so either I have a really big heart or a very short attention span...

Things I don't like: GLORFINDEL WASN'T IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS FILMS  D: and the real world's pretty messed up too.

I can't promise not to sound pretentious sometimes (read: most of the time), but it will probably be because I like excuses to use long words  rather than because I'm incredibly stuck up. Though that might be the same thing.

TTFN - and that's not at all pretentious, since I got it from Tigger in one of the Winnie the Pooh films, right?