Bubbles in my Beer

Last night was fun.

To make up for the lack of a live 1vs100 on Saturday they scheduled a game for Tuesday night instead and jolly good fun it was too. It is still a little rough in places - the animation for the live host is still being triggered even though there is not anybody in that role this season - and some of the adverts are a bit irritating, but on the whole it works pretty well considering that there were 30,000 people playing. I like the new mechanism for levelling up as you score more points which gives you new animations and dances for your avatar to perform. I played for an hour and apparently just missed seeing somebody going all the way to 1vs1 and winning.

After that, we listened to AIOTM (it's not all cumpkin jokes and anyone who says it is, is lying) whilst eating and another excellent episode it was too. The show has really hit its stride with plenty of running gags and callbacks, and much self deprecation from Richard Herring himself (who called the project "the longest suicide note in history"). I really hope that (a) he doesn't actually kill himself doing it and (b) the show makes sufficient money to make it worth doing a second season. I'd really like to go and see a show live, but London and back on a Monday night is probably pushing it.

We also started watching 'Paradox' on BBC1 which sounded promising, with a similar premise to 'Flash Forward' with messages appearing from the future, but unfortunately it was a bit of a clunker and I don't think we'll be bothering with it again. The bit that really made me laugh (and not in a good way) was a scene with a character talking on a web cam. The connection started to drop out and his reaction was to start fiddling with the monitor like somebody hitting an old fashioned telly that is on the blink. The solar study lab in the hi-tech glass and chrome building, with the huge multi-screen displays was similarly daft.