Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

Went to B@1 and The Exhibit in Balham last night. Got back at 2am in the morning and managed to not sit straight down at the Poker tables.

My brother has started watching the Grand Prix downstairs so I can't finish watching The Return of the King, that I saw a bit of last night. While I understand that it's a movie set in a fantasy setting, there are quite a few ridiculous impracticalities. For example, when the riders of Rohan are going to meet their buddies in Gondor, why do they set up camp on that small but green shelf on the side of the mountain? Surely it must have been a lot of effort to climb up there.

Also, when Faramir leads his suicidal charge to retake Osgiliath, all he seems to be doing is riding into a pile of rubble. Even if the orcs weren't there shooting arrows (and we ignore the fact that their short bows probably wouldn't have done too much against Faramir's plate armour), all he could really have achieved with the gesture would have bee a few broken legs for the horses and maybe some broken bones for his riders as they got chucked off the horses.

Anyway, the guy on the TV just said something about Ayrton Senna, which reminds me of this bad joke:

Q: What is Ayrton Senna's favourite ice cream?

A: Walls.