Mr Mist’s Blog

How strange! According to this story, a car ended up in the top floor of this house after a crash [news.bbc.co.uk]. It seems to have taken off and flew towards it. Hmm. I found the pictures quite amusing.

Good news! Next week sees a Dalek back on tv, in the new Dr Who series [news.bbc.co.uk]. Dalek’s are always fun. No longer confounded by simple stairways - not since Sylvester McCoy’s incarnation - the only problem to them now is a door that’s just not quite wide enough for the Dalek to move through.

I was moving along through the bbc news website when I came across a link to this set of attutitude tests [harvard.edu], which is an interesting set of simple tests that show if you have any leanings towards, for example, old people versus young people, or black versus white.

So far I have taken the young v old test and it said that my attitude was strongly in favour of young more than old. Curious.

There is, of course a new Pope now, Pope Benedict XVI [news.bbc.co.uk], and, at 78, he is fairly old, and apparently very conservative but, still, good luck to him I say.

Aside from that, we have an election going on, which is fairly dull. Yikes.

It looks like David Tennant is to be the next Doctor Who [news.bbc.co.uk], taking over after the end of the current run. I reckon that the series is going quite well. I’ve not seen viewing figures, but I’ve not seen too many people grumbling about it, either.

There’s a magazine thing about Lego being voted the best plastic product ever made [news.bbc.co.uk] and that, at the same time, Lego could be struggling against computers and video games.

I loved lego and I still do love lego, but the problem that I see with it these days is that it seems to have lost track of its roots. Lego used to be about the basic bricks, and using them to build up whatever you liked to have the little lego people wander around in. But now lego is just Harry Potter or Spiderman or whatever the latest craze is, and instead of actually building the things the lego seems to consists of just three bits that you snap together. That’s pointless, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t sell that well.

The people who would be buying lego now would either be the past users of lego buying for their kids, or the hobbiest lego enthusiast who wants to recapture some of the fun. Neither of these sets of people are going to be that impressed by lego versions of the latest fad, in my opinion.

Bring back traditional lego!