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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Dan Corbett is WeatherMan!
"That's the weather, for now" is Kirsty's regular blog sharing with the world the joy of Daniel Corbett, weatherman extraordinaire on BBC News 24.
He couples gloriously enthusiastic presenting style with off-the-wall metaphors and accompanying gesture worthy of Marcel Marceau. He is, in short, a gem of British TV.
5:35 PM
Saturday, August 18, 2007
The 17th Century 'Cosmopolitan'
Loath as I am to link to The Daily Mail, this is nonetheless a rather interesting historical text on the social mores of the late 17th century: The 17th century women's guide to looking good.
The treatment is typically crass, but as an exercise in contrasting styles, perhaps that has its own value...
10:10 AM
Monday, August 06, 2007
Comics Progress
Here on my Google/Picasa web album space, I've been uploading some longer samples of my comic book writing. The current short, 'Whoah!', should end up there in full, at least.
6:37 PM
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Compendium of Lost Words
Compendium of Lost Words
Must add this to the blog: The Phrontistery collects obscure, unusual and otherwise interesting bits of language for your pointless perusing pleasure.
9:25 AM
Friday, July 20, 2007
Facebook
The advent of Facebook and my perhaps inevitable roping into it has encouraged me to return to this blog for the first time in over a year, if only to add a link to my Facebook profile.
Simple as Blogger is - and I now see that its integration with Google has aided this still further - it relies on you being self-motivated to keep updating. Once you lose that impetus, there's no-one kicking you to keep it up.
Whereas Facebookers can poke you.
With constant updates on what other people are doing, you feel there's a sense of energy and continuity that's missing from a blog (unless you have a good commenting system in place and a large, responsive community responding to you).
I had linked from Facebook to this page - until I looked at it again and realised how lame it was. :) You neve know, perhaps it will prompt me to restart my blog cabin posts after all...
11:13 AM
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Hey Again
Not much to say except to note that once again the Blog Cabin has been stale for a looong time.
Also, noticed the other day that a Google Image Search turns up a number of places where my NWN portraits can be found... occasionally in nicer-presented formats than here. Ho hum. Still, the original is best. :)
10:18 AM
Monday, December 19, 2005
Long Thyme Nobe Log
But I just had to record this graet pome for use in GCSE classes.
11:28 AM
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
The Aeroplanes
This Is My Love was the first iTunes download I ever got - a freebie Single of the Week. And it was great.
Now the group that made it, Liverpool's The Aeroplanes, have signed with a record company and have their own website up and running. They also have an EP with three new songs on (I like the slower ones best), and to top it all, they're playing a gig in Brighton at The Hanbury Ballroom on the 27th of this month. Who wants to come?
8:35 PM
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Noodles on my Back
I'm a hippopotamus, and I've got noodles on my back.
9:29 AM
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
New Job!
Should have posted this a while back when I'd had the offer... but today I actually received the contract and signed on the dotted line for a new, permanent, full-time, properly paid job at Park 6th Form College, part of Sussex Downs where I was working part-time already.
I'l be doing pretty much the same as I have been this year, only a bit more of it, a bit further away, and for proper cash on a proper contract. The staff and students there seem really nice and I'm looking forward to starting in September. Just one more Summer School at Lewes to go...
11:37 AM
Friday, July 08, 2005
Comic Sans Relief
There comes a time when we in the western world need to stand up and say 'No more'. Stop the hurt. Stop the abuse. Ban comic sans. Now. Make Comic Sans History.
6:20 PM
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
We are teh Modz!
I have achieved a sort of geek nirvana.
Over at Lionhead Studios I've become a moderator on their forums. Yay! It means I get a shiny badge and have all sorts of powers over other geeks. I intend to use them for good, and to defeat evil, unless someone good pisses me off, in which case I'll ban them. Mwahahahahah!
3:46 PM
Sunday, July 03, 2005
The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?
For the morbid among you, check out The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die?. This will calculate the statistically likely day of your death, based on whether you are male, female, a smoker, and your Body Mass Index (ie, whether you're a porker). It'll even count down the seconds for you.
My big day will be: Tuesday, August 1, 2045.
So I'll just get in the 100th anniversary of WW2. I didn't tell them I'm an ex-smoker though. If I was still smoking it'd be Monday, March 8, 2038. I wouldn't even get to celebrate the annexation of Poland.
1,264,694,971... 1,264,694,970... 1,264,694,969...
12:02 PM
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Personality Disorder Test
Here's a web-quiz that's more than a web-quiz. This Personality Disorder Test is based on DSM-IV personality disorders, and will not only indicate how mad you are, but also what kind of mad you are. :)
My results, in a clickable table:
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I'm a bit schizo, but not that mad.. which must be why I'm sooo great! :D
Note, of course, that this is just a web test and not clinically reliable information. :) Average scores are given on the results page for comparison.
9:30 AM
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Fate
Fate is a 'casual RPG' for zero money (initially), from a group called Wild Tangent - who've been around for a while, trying to make money from free software.
It looks like a high quality game - it's a free download, but I think there's a £20 fee later on for continued play / expanded content / something.
9:05 AM
Saturday, May 14, 2005
The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005
An update on The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005: "The convention was a mixed success. Unfortunately, we had no confirmed time travelers visit us, yet many time travelers could have attended incognito to avoid endless questions about the future. We had a great series of lectures, awesome bands, and even a DeLorean. We regret having had to turn away visitors, but there were capacity restrictions governing Morss Hall. Thanks so much to the dozens of people who helped. "
Ah, well. I'd say 'better luck next time', but...
Perhaps in some alternate timelines this report will look very, very different. :)
9:11 AM
Monday, May 02, 2005
The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005
You can't knock this for geek genius.
Tell your friends, write it in the margin of library books, carve it into stone tablets and bury it in peat, but make sure that all future civilisations know about
The Time Traveler Convention - May 7, 2005:
"The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)"
The idea is that if time travel is in fact possible, it will be invented at some point in the future. So, if potential future time travellers know about the WORLD FAMOUS Time Traveler Convention, it'll be high on their list of places (and times) to visit. Ergo, pop along on the 7th and you might just see a myriad of people from assorted periods of the future there. :D
Of course, the alternative possibility is that it'll be the one place future time travellers are banned from going to, precisely because they'll be so expected, conspicuous and cause paradoxes/break the future/meet their own grandfathers etc.
Which would be ironic.
Expect humorous stories turning up at the end of the News where you live, and multiple socially deviant geeks posing as visitors from 2589. Of course, the canny real Time Traveller will be the guy looking nicely inconspicuous in the background...
10:36 AM
Friday, April 29, 2005
ThankyouGeorge.com
Suck up to Mr Lucas (if you want a load of spam I suspect...)
2:49 PM
Saturday, April 16, 2005
IFTF: What's your personal video gaming history?
Palo Alto's Institute for the Future are inviting any and all to email them with a personal video gaming history. It's up to you how much and what you tell them...
9:40 AM
Friday, April 01, 2005
artPad
Have a look at artPad. It is teh k00l!
12:25 PM
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