Pretty good, but a weak ending.

Highlights: Rhys being Torchwood Reserves, and Ianto pouring his heart out. From what RT says, both these things lead into Children of Earth.

Lowlight: Taking a solution that actually makes sense (using an EMP to disrupt the connection) and explain it with a metaphor that doesn't ("Just like a computer uses an EM pulse to repel viruses!" What. The. Flip?)

I thought thunderstorms were supposed to clear the air. It's just as close and uncomfortable as it was, the only difference being that now it's wet as well.

Excellent. Interesting to learn a bit more about Torchwood's history, and the subtle reference to Doctor Who was fun (Yeti spheres).

I know "the pictures are better on radio", but I really would like to have seen Torchwood India.

Edit: And, it's just occured to me, if Torchwood had bases in the protectorates and dominions, was there a Torchwood Canada or a Torchwood Australia? Torchwood Africa? Torchwood Jamacia? They raise all sorts of possibilities. (Maybe Commonwealth countries that still have the British Monarch as Head of State didn't have their Torchwoods closed down like India did.)

Me: Now we're getting diet Irn Bru, I can stop thinking I should only have one glass a day.

Mum: That makes sense. Apparently there's absolutely no points in Diet Irn Bru.

Me: Then ... why are we buying it?

That was pretty cool.
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Memed from lost_spook. I'm really not a shippy person, so I thought having to come up with answers to the meme might produce some surprises even to me...
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Yes, the British press have learnt that this year, for Children In Need, all the Doctors are going to team up in one huge story.

Presumably, the thinking is that if they keep repeating this, it's bound to be true eventually.

(Apart from anything else, the timeslot for the CiN Doctor Who skit is such that they'd barely get a line each. Dimensions In Time only had four Doctors to deal with [plus Tom Baker in a prologue and two floating heads], and it still felt rushed.)

capriuni recently mentioned her hometown's logo, which reminded me that I keep meaning to do a mini-rant here about what's wrong with our one. Here it is:
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For all I don't go out much, this is the second week in a row I've had an active Saturday (last week we went on an archeological walk round Inverness). This week I was at The Crossing, and the Ranald and Ian concert.
( Contains boats and folk music )

Just heard the first post-Humph ISIHAC on Listen Again. (We were round at my sister's on Monday; we had it on, but with two kids running around we heard less than half of it, and most of that we couldn't follow because we'd missed the setups.)
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Happy birthday, ericjarvis!

Woah.
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Euro election results are through. Labour did worse than UKIP, which is just scary for all sorts of reasons.

Back home, confidence in Gordon is still circling the drain.

Swine flu is still on the rise.

And the front page headline in The Scotsman is the winner of The Apprentice...

On Thursday, I went and voted like a good European.

Listening to the News Quiz at lunchtime, I suddenly thought "what were the results anyway?"

I spent five minutes being infuriated by the BBC website, which seemed far more interested in the English council elections, before finally discovering that they can't make any announcement until all the countries have voted. D'oh!

Another intriguing one.
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Sorry I haven't been online for a couple of days - I am still working on the others.

( When you need a McGuffin, where do you go? )

There's an Invernesian companion.

An Invernesian companion.

After three Londoners, I really hope she keeps her accent.

"Ya travel through time in that? Aye, that'll be right!"

Still working on the others, but I came up with an idea for this quite quickly.

( Since <i>which</i> Doctor wasn't specified, I decided to be silly )

Memed from lost_spook

Give me two characters from different fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a dialogue happening between the two of them. Without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed or how they could even meet each other. Just a silly crossover conversation with no backstory, for fun.

The last fanfic meme has a list of properties I've used. In addition to them, I'd also be prepared to have a stab at a number of 80s and 90s sitcoms (I think people here know my sense of humour, and therefore what ones I'm likely to have seen); the Muppets, in all their incarnations; Hitchhiker's Guide; Heroes; Merlin; Scrubs; Robin Hood, Robin of Sherwood and (for preference) Maid Marian And Her Merry Men; anything I mentioned in a meme involving books; and a lot of 80s cartoons (throw one out, and I'll tell you if I can do it).

Last year I mentioned I'd started reading The Comics Curmugeon, a sarcastic blog that reviews newspaper comics. Naturally, I also started reading the comments.

Which presented me with a problem. I don't (or didn't) read a lot of newspaper comics. And the comments threads often talk about comics other than the ones Josh is showcasing, sometimes without links.

The result of which is that these days, I often spend my evenings reading comic strips online that I don't even like, simply so I can understand what other people who don't like them either are complaining about...