Claire and I cooked thai food for Ruth, JTA, and Bryn last night. Paul, too, but owing to a communications breakdown he didn’t know about it, so he missed out. Unable to decide between making a sweet red Thai chilli and a black bean dish, I decided to make both, which immediately compounded into a problem when I realised that I was cooking both meat (for us normal people) and a vegetarian dish (for Ruth) of each.
So, hot-desking (hot-hobbing?) six pans later on, we all got fed – about 40 minutes late. Got to steam some pak choi over the noodles: I’m not sure that I’ve ever knowingly tried pak choy before – Claire pointed it out in Morrisons and said, “what’s this?” and I had to confess that I didn’t know, save from what it said on the packet (“ideal for stir-fry”). A quick scout around the web revealed what to do with the thing. Anyway; it turns out to be a fab-tasting vegetable.
After this, Bryn left, and the remainder of us had a game of Settlers of Catan, which Ruth won. Again.
My torrent of the entire first series of Gantz, a wonderfully destructive anime series we’ve been watching at Naruto Night, has been making good progress over the weekend. The numbers keep fluctuating, but we could have a copy of it within as little as the next 30 hours or so. It feels a bit of a waste having to download the entire series just to collect the two episodes I’m missing, but this was the only working torrent I could find that included these episodes at all.
I’m kinda impressed how tightly the TV series hugs the comic books (I’ve gotten hold of them, too). Dialog, framing, everything. Not so impressed as I was, though, by the stunning Sin City I had the joy of seeing last week, which didn’t even have the benefit of being animated to help the director to get the feel of the hand-drawn work from which it stems. See Sin City.
Meandering now, but should be working.
If you use something like Azerus you can grab specific files within a torrent and just download them. I did that when I need a specific episode of Full Metal Alchemist which I lost.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
People keep telling me this, and I know, but for some reason this particular torrent is a single, huge file.
Thanks anyway.
I know its a bit late but I found another torrent with all the files seperate, with DVD covers, and the trailer for a PS2 game!! check out torrentreactor.net then search for [shoc]_gantz_dvd itll be the one listed under the “other” catagory
Settlers of Catan rocks! I love it so mucn that I created a web site about the Settlers of Catan. Check it out!
You could have just used uTorrent and got just the episodes you wanted out of the torrent instead of downloading the entire thing. A bit useless now though as I would imagine it has finished downloading in 3 years!
Anyway, Gantz is brilliant, emotionally relentless. Gotta love it!
Maddy
Madaxe,
Thanks for that suggestion, but as I was downloading a DVD ISO image (rather than a collection of ripped episodes), that wasn’t an option anyway.