Archive for March, 2008
Call of Annoyance
Today I am yet again annoyed with computer games. The first reason comes down to my own weakness for a penny pinching special offer and the irrestible lure that the warm lighting and purple glow of branches of Game have on me – I went in yesterday when wandering down to town to obtain lunch [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
Center?
I like Centrepoint. Or however you spell it.
Posted: March 26th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
The Scottish Branch of the Thames
From: Thames Gallery Of Arts
Subject: EMPLOYMENT:JOB OFFER.
EMPLOYMENT:JOB OFFER.
Hello Dear,
We are an European Art company with an immediate opening for a part-time
book keeper/administrative assistant to join our team.You will be working
for us from home. Thames Gallery Of Arts islocated in Aberdeen, Scotland.
…
Posted: March 19th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
Roll 2d6 against Chutzpah. I am going to ignore the result, but rolling dice seems to make you happy
With the recent departure of Gary Gygax, inventor of D&D, I’ve been thinking a bit about my hidden roleplaying past. However, I just heard a comment from China Mi
Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
Grindhouse
It seems that while I missed the Edgar Wright intro’d showing of the proper double bill version of Grindhouse at the PCC (due to it being during my birthday party) the lovely people at the Curzon Soho are doing a showing on Friday March 28th:
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/whats_on/all_venues/midnight_movies/midnight_movies/grindhouse
They’ve already sold out one screen and I’ve got a ticket [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: none
Survival
Well, I seem to have survived the weekend of my thirtieth birthday, which is nice. I started out gently on Friday with a lunchtime trip to the new(ish) City branch of The Lowlander, where they have tasty beers and slightly disappointing “pie” (stew in a dish with a nice circle of pastry on top, but [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: none
Strikethrough struckthrough
From the Powerpoint 2003 help. How to replicate “seldom used” features of the earlier versions of Office. It’s not as if anyone ever really needed to use strikethrough.
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
Many people will watch them. The distributers hope.
I have been quietly reading the occasional post that appears on the Watchmen production blog – a site that I originally thought was a joke, as it is a Well Known Fact that noone can ever make a film of Watchmen, despite all the various attempts – and other than occasional pictures of an alley [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 15









