LogicCamera.com published a list of the 10 most frequently used cameras on Flickr, which I find sort of fascinating. It’s a fantastic little side-effect of the age of smart gadgets and the so-called information age.
Now that all of the electronic doodads we carry about with us are smart enough to know things about themselves and [...]
You know, for a video game which I’m so patently, atrociously, embarrassingly poor at, I sure have played a lot of Geometry Wars.
Other people with OCD-ish tendencies are at least good at the things they mindlessly repeat over and over again, but not me, oh no. I can cheerfully perform some action, absolutely ineptly, for [...]
A suicidal ladybird just landed under my palm as I started typing. (in Central London, no less. The usual animal population around here is limited to cockroaches, rats and pigeons.) Hence I’ve just discovered that squished ladybirds smell like raw silage.
The things you never learn in nature programmes on TV, eh?
A strangely pleasing little factoid that I ran across for the first time today:
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
I had a lovely two-week holiday in Edinburgh and Galashiels, and then:
Fight home delayed by 1 hour.
Train then bus from the airport to home inexplicably slow. Arrive after 1am.
Home to discover kitchen ripped up for refurbishment. Meaning no washing machine for dealing with burgeoning pile of holiday laundry.
Discover that all local laundrettes have opening hours [...]
Man Pocky
Originally uploaded by FeralChicken.
At the risk of turning this into “Too-Hot-Here Blog,” the weather has been taunting me today. After a week of lovely overcast 16-18 degC weather, today has been back to tarmac-melting, brain-oozing, sweaty-zombie heat. Luckily I’m now well skilled in the art of spending 40 minutes selecting a pint of milk [...]
It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again: Top Gear is the funniest piece of British TV in the last 10 years.
Also, I really wish Parkour was a viable hobby for unfit computer programmers with dodgy ankles. The insurance interview would be hilarious: “Sir, could you explain how you shattered both of your tibias?” [...]
Ah, the agony of choice.
The temperature here is keeping pace with the rest of the week, during which, let us not forget, the UK’s highest ever temperature was recorded. (And, marvelously, the day the air conditioner in our office broke down, leading to indoor temperatures of 37 degrees C and to me breaking our game [...]
Because this arrived while I was reading The Dice Man and was thinking on the theme of life lived through random chance, because I am bored, and because I have just run out of whisky: Tag, you are all it!
Directions: Put your iTunes/Winamp/WMP/whatever on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud (or not), and press play. [...]
One of the nicer perqs of our company being bought out is that we get free copies of all newly released MS Game Studios titles, and this evening we all trooped off with shiny new copies of Rise of Legends, which was lovely.
What was less lovely was discovering that there was a magnetic security tag [...]
Since it’s too freakin’ hot to do anything involving movement, I’ve been looking for more books to read. I came across this link to an Authors on the Web where they’re collecting recommended reading lists from various authors, which sounded promising. But!, I slowly realised that I don’t recognise any of the authors on the [...]
Sweet Zombie Jeebus, the weather is trying to kill me. Send ice cream, air conditioning units and all of your money!
(and furthermore…)
I conclude that ITV’s live coverage of the World Cup has 3 seconds extra time delay compared to SkyTV’s:
Watching the England/Sweden game out of the corner of my eye while messing about on the computer.
HUGE roar from the pub down the street.
Look up to see a cross going in and England scoring.
Go back to what [...]
The Elder Gods of the Interweb will strike me down for filling this in, but what the hell. Received via email, but responded to here rather than forwarding it to a bunch of people, since everyone knows blogs are the new chain emails…
Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this [...]
DC Studios, the company which bought the remnants of the place I used to work and proceeded to: irritate the remaining staff to the extent that hardly any agreed to stay on, sign our final in-progress game to an tiny, inept publisher and then take a year to finish said game - which was a [...]