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I've been watching Due South. I'll no doubt have some more in depths descriptions at some point, but a few observations:

( Minor spoilers )

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So, I have a phone line. I need a phone. What should I do?

* Buy a bog-standard cheap basic plastic handset from shop/internet?
* Browse for a shiny!futuristic phone on geek toy websites?
* Fiddle with laptop until modem, and headphone mike function together as phone?
* Grab one free when someone throws out their 5000 old useless handsets?
* Something else?

Torchwood

Oh no. I just turned Torchwood on. There are some good one-liners. And the concept and characters remain great. And it's nice to see Martha again, in the end, I discovered I did like her. And the episode premise is as always stupid.

But god, it's boring. The rest of the dialogue is all failed one liners, spoken in a tone of voice that says "this is a joke" or "this is dramatic", but pointless, stupid and boring :(

Reminder: Eclipse of the moon roughly 3am.

As several people have reminded people already, if you like seeing celestial mechanics in action, you won't be able to see the moon for several hours about around 03:00 GMT tonight. It may be wise to look now for comparison: if the moon is obscured from the sun by the earth, that's a lunar eclipse, if the earth is obscured from the sun by the moon, that's a solar eclipse, but if the sun is obscured by the earth from you, that's night, that's no less special, but happens every day night, and the moon being obscured from you by the moon is also normal, and happens every month[1], and the moon being obscured from the earth by the earth is also normal, and also happens every day, but doesn't have such a good name, except "after moonset".

[1] Pedant note, yes it DOES happen every month. Sometimes twice :)