Nico's Journal

On jhall1's rec, I watched Micro Men, a comedy-drama about Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry (Acorn Computers) and the rise and sad fall of the British personal computer industry, complete with a pub brawl involving a rolled-up newspaper. Man, Sinclair was a nutter. I don't know much about Curry, but Martin Freeman made him lovable just by playing him. He's still my pick for a new Vila even though he's starting to show his age.

And speaking of Vila, there was unexpected bonus Michael Keating! He was only in about three scenes at the beginning, but still. :-)

Look what thetisonline found for me: a young and cute Michael Keating! Just watch the first ad (or more if you're British and nostalgic). Awww, he's adorable! He looks as if he's just come in from a game. Which team does her support? Not Aston Villa anyway; wrong colours.

The ad was shown in 1977 on LWT, pre Blake's 7. I remember Michael saying he'd got his hair cut very short just before filming on B7 started and being worried they'd fire him. I suppose they cast him looking like this--and Goudy in The Sunmakers. I wish he'd kept it longer for the role of Vila. More, I dunno, roguish. :-)

From communicator, a fun pictorial mosaic meme.

You answer twelve questions about yourself. You enter each answer into Flickr's search engine. You pick a photo from the first three pages of results and put its URL into this rather cool mosaic-maker.

Then you post the resulting mosaic in your blog. (I set mine to a width of 600.)

( Meme and my results )

thetisonline

babel

I'm in Wales, at linda_joyce's cottage.

( Star One and another sort of Villa )