Phones, film

I'm not quite sure how you lose a phone socket, but that's what my mum told me when I woke up yesterday morning. I looked for myself, and sure enough, the cover where last night there had been a phone socket was completely blank, with no sign of opening at all. As luck would have it, I was particularly anxious to talk to Whitney that morning, so I had to run downstairs and plug all the extensions in to each other to make 15m of cable stretch out of my room, down the stairs, and in to the study's phone socket, with a "Don't kill yourself on this" note on the cable stretched strategically across the stairs.

Later on in the day, I looked at it again. It seemed that my mum had attempted to plug the phone back in by repeatedly ramming it against the cover of the socket, making it seal up in an attempt to defend itself and slip down further than it was meant to. A screwdriver sorted that out. There was also the problem of the wire that had come out when my dad had hamfistedly opened it up - I put that back on a randomly chosen pin, and everything works and nothing's caught fire yet, so I think the repair was a success.

It's reminded me that I need to be around when anyone in the house tries anything particularly hazardous, like plugging things in.

That evening I picked up e_to_the_ipi with my brother and, after all the talk of how rubbish it looked, went to see Fantastic Four. I expected it to be amusingly terrible (the trailer makes it seem that way) but I'll admit it was pretty decent. It's true that it's one of the sillier Marvel films.

I don't want to give spoilers, as if you care, so I'll just have to say that it was clever when the film makes you think that an important plot element has happened, but it hasn't... as stupid as that sounds. The ending also seems rather anti-climactic - most Marvel films rely on a large set-piece at the end, but in this one the villian-catching (Von Doom!) happens very suddenly. There also seemed to be no reason for him to start wearing the mask at all. The last thing is that they had the potential to set up a sequel as the Puppetmaster's daughter made an appearance, but he was never given a mention.

Whitney requested that I take a photo of a DDR pad. The reasons are as yet unknown.