Absence

Haven't been able to post for the last few days because my laptop died.
Back up and running again.
List of recent ebay deliveries coming soon.

Doctor Who Series 7 Blu Ray

Started watching Doctor Who Series 7 Part 1 Blu Ray.

Really impressed with 1080p quality and sound is awesome.

Amy Pond in HD yes please!!!

Watched first disc which had the episodes:

Asylum Of The Daleks

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

A Town Called Mercy

Really looking forward to disc 2.

Awesome Grand Prix!
So much happened not sure I can remember:

Kimi was given a 3 place penalty for blocking during qualifying, though it didn't make much difference the car looked undrivable throughout the race.

We started off with intermediate conditions.
Several cars including Mark Webber slid off the track on their way to the grid (pre race).
Once the race got under way, Alonso hit the rear of Vettel's car and after failing to stop for a new front wing ending up crashing out after the nose detached and lodged under the car.
Verne was released out of the pits in front of Pic and the two cars collided.

Later Ferrari released Massa unsafely but unsurprisingly this was not investigated FIA (Ferrari International Assistance me thinks).
Hamilton comically parked in the McLaren pit box and lost around 5-6 seconds.
Jenson's front right wheel was not secured at the pit stop and this caused him to have to stop and be wheeled back by the mechanics putting him out of what looked like a secure 5th place.
Button ultimately retired.
Force India ended up retiring both cars due to what seemed to be a failure of the wheel nuts during pitstops.
The two main stories of the race however were Rosberg not being allowed to pass Hamilton despite being much faster during the fuel save phase and then of course Vettel ignoring team orders to stay behind Webber and winning the race.
Seb apologised to Mark after the race, but it was not accepted and Webber hinted that he may have to consider his future in F1.
Today John Watson commented that Vettel should get a one race ban for ignoring team orders.
I think this would be a good punishment, but as Mark said "Seb has the protection of the teams as ever" so no doubt nothing will happen to him.

Results:

1 Sebastian Vettel
2 Mark Webber
3 Lewis Hamilton
4 Nico Rosberg
5 Felipe Massa
6 Romain Grosjean
7 Kimi Raikkonen
8 Nico Hulkenberg
9 Sergio Perez
10 Jean-Eric Vergne
11 Valtteri Bottas
12 Esteban Gutierrez

13 Jules Bianchi
14 Charles Pic
15 Giedo van der Garde
16 Max Chilton
17 Jenson Button
18 Daniel Ricciardo
19 Pastor Maldonado
20 Adrian Sutil
21 Paul Di Resta
22 Fernando Alonso

All in All amazing race and can't wait for China in 3 weeks.

PC Game Purchases

I just purchased 2 new PC games on offer at Gamefly:

Resident Evil 5 &
Civilization V (Game Of The Year)

I was a HUGE fun of Civilization Revolution of the Xbox 360 and have been wanting to try out the latest game in the series for a while.
On offer for just £5.75 I thought this was a good opportunity to try this out without breaking the bank.




Whilst I was purchasing Civilization I noticed Resident Evil 5 on offer for just £3.50 and figured I may as well pick it up.


Will post more info when I actually get chance to use the games.

Resident Evil 3DS

I downloaded the demo of Resident Evil Revelations from the Nintendo Eshop today and have to say I am really impressed.
The game plays really nicely and for the first time made me see the DS as a decent little gaming machine.
The 3D effect and the sound were both really nice too.
Controls seem good.
I will be buying this game soon along with Zelda OOT but not from the Nintendo store as they want £39.99 each!!!

Ebay Deliveries 23/03/2013

Two videos arrived in the post today. Yay!

Doctor Who: The Ark In Space (Tom Baker)

1989 Original Edited Release

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius (Tom Baker)

1984 Original Pre-Cert

Blue Label Release (Very Rare)

My Doctor Who VHS collection is nearly complete as far as I can tell, although it is difficult to be sure because a complete list is very hard to find.

I will start watching through them very soon as well as catching up with the current series.

Revolution

Saw a trailer for this on Sky and could wait to start watching.
Watched the first four episodes last night and think the show has lots of potential.
Weird seeing Billy Burke (Charlie from Twilight) in something else, but he rocks it.

Only the first 10 Episodes have been shown so far in the US but they are due to resume soon and there is already talk of Season 2.

Episodes I watched:

Episode 1: Pilot
Episode 2: Chained Heat
Episode 3: No Quarter
Episode 4: The Plague Dogs

Is it me or does Tim Guinee (Ben Matheson) look alot like Nathan Fillion from Firefly?
Looking forward to continuing with this show.

Qualifying for Malaysian GP was interesting.
Rain part way through Q2 spiced things up but no shock who came out on top:

1 Sebastian Vettel
2 Felipe Massa
3 Fernando Alonso
4 Lewis Hamilton
5 Mark Webber
6 Nico Rosberg
7 Kimi Raikkonen
8 Jenson Button
9 Adrian Sutil
10 Sergio Perez
11 Romain Grosjean
12 Nico Hulkenberg
13 Daniel Ricciardo
14 Esteban Gutierrez
15 Paul Di Resta
16 Pastor Maldonado
17 Jean-Eric Vergne
18 Valtteri Bottas
19 Jules Bianchi
20 Charles Pic
21 Max Chilton
22 Giedo van der Garde

Another early start to watch FP3 from Malaysia.

Good session, results as follows:

1 Sebastian Vettel

2 Lewis Hamilton

3 Adrian Sutil

4 Mark Webber

5 Kimi Raikkonen

6 Paul Di Resta

7 Jenson Button

8 Felipe Massa

9 Nico Rosberg

10 Fernando Alonso

11 Pastor Maldonado

12 Sergio Perez

13 Nico Hulkenberg

14 Romain Grosjean

15 Valtteri Bottas

16 Esteban Gutierrez

17 Jean-Eric Vergne

18 Daniel Ricciardo

19 Charles Pic

20 Jules Bianchi

21 Giedo van der Garde

22 Max Chilton

Grey's Anatomy

Episode 17: Transplant Wasteland

Episode 18: Idle Hands

Watched Season 9

Episodes 17 & 18 yesterday.

Celebrity Juice 21/03/2012

Got around to watching this today.

Holly's Team:

Kimberly Wyatt
Danny Dyer

Kelly's Team:

Rylan Clark
Chris Ramsey

Watched the first two practice sessions from Malaysia this morning.
Struggled to stay awake, especially as in FP1 it took almost 40mins for anyone to set a laptime.
Wet conditions made FP2 interesting and I hope that continues into the race.

FP 1 Results:

1 Mark Webber
2 Kimi Raikkonen
3 Sebastian Vettel
4 Fernando Alonso
6 Adrian Sutil
7 Felipe Massa
8 Paul Di Resta
9 Lewis Hamilton
10 Romain Grosjean
11 Jenson Button
12 Pastor Maldonado
13 Sergio Perez
14 Nico Hulkenberg
15 Esteban Gutierrez
16 Valtteri Bottas
17 Jean-Eric Vergne
18 Daniel Ricciardo
19 Giedo van der Garde
20 Jules Bianchi
21 Charles Pic
22 Max Chilton

FP2 Results:

1 Kimi Raikkonen
2 Sebastian Vettel
3 Felipe Massa
4 Fernando Alonso
5 Mark Webber
6 Romain Grosjean
7 Nico Rosberg
8 Paul Di Resta
9 Lewis Hamilton
10 Adrian Sutil
11 Sergio Perez
12 Jenson Button
13 Nico Hulkenberg
14 Esteban Gutierrez
15 Jean-Eric Vergne
16 Pastor Maldonado
17 Daniel Ricciardo
18 Jules Bianchi
19 Valtteri Bottas
20 Charles Pic
21 Giedo van der Garde
22 Max Chilton

First Post

Hi,

I have no idea if anyone will ever read this blog, but this is more about me keeping a record of the things I do (mostly things I watch) when I'm not working.
It will be an incredibly geeky blog but I'm proud of my geekness!

RetroFatty.