So Long, and Don’t Forget to Salt the Fries
I’m sure this will come as a surprise to all of no-one, but the time has come to zap this blog with the Hiat-o-Tron.
I find no joy in reading blog posts about other people’s banal lives. As so little of interest has happened¹ in my life of late (well, that can’t be encapsulated in 140 characters or less), I wouldn’t want to subject my 18 readers to the same fate just to maintain the illusion of activity.
In the meantime, feel free to follow me on Twitter (or via this RSS feed, if you don’t use Twitter. You luddite).
¹Showdown, RPS Thinkosium, Thought Bubble & BAF: Game about cover it I think. And even then, I only actually wrote about two of them.
Did You Ever Feel the Thrill of the Chase?
[Two posts in one month? Perhaps there's hope for this thing yet. Though, really, I wouldn't consider the last one a "true" post. More a glorified tweet.]
My Plan for Happiness;
Phase 1: Meet girl
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit
Just a shame I’m failing miserably at Phase 1.
One night last week, Sarann said to me “life is boring if you don’t fancy anyone”, and by golly she’s right. I’ve always measured my, ahem, droughts purely on how long I’ve been single (Coming up to 11 months, fact fans). But now I realise there’s more to it than that.
Look At You, Taffer
Yes, I’m not dead etc, but don’t get your hopes up. This is just a quick post to highlight the fact that Thief 4 is all but officially coming, and this is the third best piece of news I could ever receive (second being the announcement of System Shock 3, first being, well, I’m not saying). So yes, without further ado;
An ad for EIDOS spotted in the latest issue of EDGE. The text behind the note says Thief 4, obv, but if further proof is needed;
“Hall of Fame” – Gamespy
“Greatest Games of All Time” and “Ten Best Heroes in Gaming” – Gamespot
All will be revealed on the 11th of May. Don’t mess this up, EIDOS.
We Interrupt This Broadcast
[It's not often I do these things, but I'm a sucker for movie quotes. If you want to answer and are reading this on FB, click through to my blog and post there. Or don't. Tbh, not too arsed if no one answers, it was a moderatly entertaining way to kill half an hour.]
The rules:
- Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
- Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
The List Redux (or Why I’m Glad I’m Not a Student)
[A little over a year ago, before this place even existed, I wrote the following note over on Facebook. I'm republishing it here with some "one year later" comments for, well, shits and giggles to be honest. Plus I imagine most of my readership would have missed this the first time round.]
Anyone who’s spoken to me recently has probably heard me say “that’s on my list” or “god, that’s why I hate being a student”. So, in an effort to avoid revision stress, I decided to compile said list. They’re in no real order. Except No. 1, I hate exams.
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With Every Broken Heart We Should Become More Adventurous
Mmmm, pancakes. It honestly hadn’t occurred to me that it was Shrove Tuesday today until I got a text mid-afternoon from Michelle inviting me round this evening for some battery goodness with her and Sarann. Of course, the pancakes themselves lasted ohh, about 10 minutes, but were followed up by a good three hours of chatting.
*Clink* *Crack* *Hssss* *Fzzzz*
It’s the strangest compulsion. I get in from work and all I want to do is crack open a bottle of Coke. I’m not thirsty. If I was, well, I’d much rather be drinking Dr Pepper. Yet that simple action of lifting a Cold One out of the fridge and the resulting satisfaction gleaned from prying off the bottlecap is almost intoxicating. Clearly, that (alco) pop-culture is starting to have an effect, perhaps my brain is trying to tell me something?
Ham and Jam and…
I’ve been getting a lot of these specific spam comments recently. I wonder if the intertubes are trying to tell me something.
I Remember When Twitter Was Cool
It occurred to me that I have never really publicised that I use Twitter. I mean, there are plenty of references to it in my various web presences (for example, the box just to your right), but I haven’t explicitly mentioned it. I guess, when I started using it, it was just some little thing on the side. An experiment to supplement this place, if you will. Not to mention it wasn’t cool.
Now however, well, everyone is talking about it; countless mentions on the radio and TV, articles in various tabloids proclaiming it as being pointless (pot, kettle etc) & an invasion of all manner of A to Z list celebs, cult figures, marketing types, presidents and more besides.
I tend to use it an awful lot than this place now, too. Often I’ll have thoughts that I could stretch out to a full entry, but there’s little point when I can plainly post it on my Twitter. I also use it a lot during work when I find/think of something that I would spam MSN/Steam with were I BLOODY ABLE. Ahem. And unlike Facebook status’ , there’s none of that third person perspective nonsense.
I can be found, funnily enough, here. Until, that is, I get bored and find a new Web 2.0 frontier to brave.
Why I Love Mondays (Off)
I didn’t go to work today, and it was wonderful. Three day weekends are one of (my) life’s great pleasures. After last week and all that it entailed, I elected to take today off to recharge my batteries, and it has done me wonders.
On the surface, it wasn’t the most thrilling of days off. I did some ironing, some hoovering, finally went to the car wash and did the weekly shop (via Subway for lunch with Dan, which was grand. Something I wish we could do more often, if it weren’t for the whole working 10 miles apart). I generally just pottered around the flat, doing the kinds of things I would be doing at the weekend, if I wasn’t so pressed for time (or rather, exhausted). I also discovered just why my flat is so bloody awful at keeping the heat. All the trickle vents on my windows were open. And had been open all of winter. Piffle, nads and darnit indeed. Still, we’re not out of the thick of yet, so closing them should at least make things more bearable for the next couple of months.
The great knock on is that this is now a four-day week, and the next weekend will come even sooner. However, that will then leave me with a week till my project is due, but I don’t think anyone really believes that is going to happen. As for next weekend, well, I’ve no plans yet. Though, if the past few weekends are anything to go by, I shant be stuck for things to do!
As mentioned yesterday, I really do feel much better now, almost as though last week hadn’t even happened. Though this does raise the concern of just how easily my defenses can be shattered, but I guess that’s not likely to happen again for another few months yet, eh? Sometime around April, I wager.
