December 2009
44 posts
I can haz rest now pls?
21 people in a conservatory. Of which four are excitable, hyperactive young children, one is pregnant and another is mentally ill. I love my family. The only thing is I never get to see them enough. Grandad is worse and worse every time I see him, and it’s just plain upsetting that he’s not even coherent anymore, and he doesn’t even remember who I am. Poor Grandma is stressed out...
Busy busy busy.
More tumblrage coming soon, I promise. Visiting family and sketchy internet makes it hard, iPhone or no.
Haha…. ‘tumbl rage’
“You will face me, sir! *smacks me round the head with a pillow*”
– My six year old cousin Matthew after reading my blog title blessim
“Blessblessblessbless NOM NOM NOM ARRGH”
– Beckyshank
“Watching people go around corners makes me dizzy.”
– One cinema bloke talking to another
A good haul.
So if you didn’t realise it was Christmas yesterday, get out from under your rock. I had a rest from “stressful” blogging, and relaxed, ate too much, got loads of free stuff, and hung out avec ma famille. And it was pretty awesomeful.
So I’m currently sitting in the car heading North to hang out with the extended family. First we will stop off at Birmingham, then tomorrow...
Dark Days Are Coming.
I’ve just seen the second teaser for TSW. And oh. My. God. I want this game. I want Funcom in my pants. I want 2012 to come so that I can stand on top of the world as it ends with a giant pair of reins and gallop it into its doom, screaming ‘CRY GAIA CRY’ at the top of my lungs.
Trailer one
Teaser one
Teaser two
I love the atmosphere. I love the metaphor. I love the setting....
I MISS FIFTY-SIX
That is all.
Well, actually, that’s not all.
For anyone reading this who doesn’t know me, I’m a 20 year old British gentleman who’s currently at university in Bournemouth. And fifty-six, the house I’m renting there, has quickly become more of a home than home (that’d be Kent) is.
I love spending the first Christmas in three years at home with the ‘rents...
Has OS X died?
I’ll spare you the suspense, the answer’s no. Of course not. But this was what came into my head a few moments ago when I couldn’t click on anything.
I panicked, I thought my system had frozen. I pressed sleep, woke it up. Nothing. Hard reboot. Nothing - and what’s more I couldn’t click on my name to log in. Rebooted into the OS X install DVD, intending to verify my...
Hahaha @ the latest xkcd.
Quantum mechanics jokes for the win.
(see below for the strip, and don’t forget to read the alt-text)
“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without,...”
– Stan Kelly-Bootle
The best bit of the xkcd book:
Inside the front cover:
“This is not a copyright page. This is a Creative Commons page.”
Bringing the CC licence to books!
“Breakpig is not a traditional publisher. The majority of the profits of this book are going to the artist, Randall Munroe. And as with all Breadpig projects, the company’s profits are being donated to a worthy charity. We selected the organization...
My xkcd order arrived!
A while back I ordered stuff from my favourite webcomic, xkcd (every new issue of which is posted on here via RSS feed) . And it’s here! Took a while to arrive from America, but I have my parcel now :)
Included: 1x ‘Correlation’ t-shirt, Small:
1x ‘xkcd: Volume 0’ book:
1x ‘Jealousy’ print (my favourite - morbid?):
Clicky images to see them...
Weather you understand. →
Thrice supporting Brand New? YES PLEASE. →
“I’ll do anything for you
Kill anyone for you
So leave yourself intact...”
– Coheed and Cambria, ofc
“So make sure you love like you’ve never been hurt,
And when you dance,...”
– Dallas Green
Facebook sucks.
Photo uploading is being a fail. This is one of the reasons I got rid of it.
Tom is rapping really badly.
Becky has moved her warm, warm legs from my cold, cold legs.
And as soon as these photos have finished uploading I think I’m gonna reboot into W7 for some Twelve Days of Christmas fun :) I’M GONNA FARM LOTSA CHRISTMAS SHIT :)
Packing for home tonight, but not before I have made...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KERRI
I made a lot of typos while typing this.
This is not like me.
I’ve had a fair bit to drink, I’m not drunk but I’ve had an awesome ambulance-themed night. Kerri’s merrily wasted, Tom’s pretty far gone, Becky’s unconscious… good times :) (btw all three of you rule, if you read this ♡)
Now for an early night (lol, it’s funny ‘cos it’s...
Make it snow with a click of your mouse. →
All Your Twitter Are Belong To Us. →
That's it.
I just fell through the floor.
Miles back and through hordes of Flood to any checkpoint.
I’m going to bed. Maybe the answer to why those gameplay elements from the trailer (see previous post) were omitted will come to me in my dreams.
Tomorrow night (tonight?) I’m wearing a box and getting drunk in the sub-zero temperatures of December. I’m sure pictures will follow.
...
Did Bungie actually make Halo 2?
Because it’s not like them to make such a sub-standard, annoying, enraging, bug-fest of a checkpointless game. Everything in it is done badly. Everything. There are strokes of genius in there, don’t get me wrong - the multiplayer map design was perfect, the plot superb. But man, did they screw up.
Let’s just say that a Halo game I only played through the campaign of properly...
Actually, that is ironic.
Kerri: A traffic jam
Me: When you're already late
Kerri: No smoking signs
Me: On your cigarette break
Kerri: It's like ten thousand spoons
Me: When all you need is a knife
Kerri: It's like meeting the man of your dreams
Me: And then meeting his beautiful wife.
Pause.
Me: A traffic jam...
Kerri: On your cigarette break.
Me: What?! How are you getting to your fag break, taxi?
Kerri: Now that is ironic.
buy this. →
(via xcalendardays)
Late night ramblings, or: I told you so.
Concerning sleep-deprivation, 500 Days of Summer (possible spoilers), relationship strife and how I’ve figured out Halo: Reach in under two hours.
This will actually be a little shorter than I imagined due to wine, due to sleep-dep catching up with me, and due to that pink hippopotamus I seem to be hallucinating in that corner due to said sleep-dep.
I’d close your eyes now if...
...It does, apparently.
Because we’re putting 500 Days of Summer on. I really, really want to see this movie… and besides, it’s an opportunity to ogle one of the Deschanel sisters.
Yum.
I don't drink pink wine.
Especially when it’s called ‘The Pink Chill’. Which sounds to me like a cold vulva.
But that’s okay because I have red wine.
Also cheese.
Crackers.
Spotify.
And copious amounts of extracurricular HTML to be getting on with.
Does life get much better?
What's next?
The XKCD’s connected to the… Tumblr
The Tumblr’s connected to the… Twitter
The Twitter’s not connected to the… Tumblr
But the Digg is connected to the… Tumblr
Perhaps a ‘Tweet this’ link?
Keeping you updated
Forty-one minutes remaining in my Leopard install.
Next up: Snow Leopard.
Then restoring all my stuff.
It’s quite funny that I have to go through three generations of operating systems. It’d be annoying if I wasn’t doing it by choice, tbh.
Also: Flashback to when I first got this bad boy:
That was then. This is now.
And that is all.
It's 'Lottie', surely.
Me: Please tell me she doesn't spell 'Lawwtee' like that?
Tom: Yeah.
Me: She's one of those people who deserves to be thrown out of a window.
Kerri: Or down a well.
sudo rm -rf /
…is what I just typed in on my iMac a few minutes ago. And watched parts of my operating system disappear, and my applications stop working, and my files vanish. 250 GB of my life erased.
Well not so much erased. I, like Jesus, save.
Now, as I sit here with a cup of tea and fluffy women’s boot slippers on, creating a Tumblr account and learning the nuances of this quite nicely...