As a lifelong gamer I have fond memories of certain games that I know I’m viewing through rose-tinted goggles and if I went to play them now, they’d be bloody awful. Grand Theft Auto 3 is a perfect example. I loved that game. But when I tried to play it on my PS3, it looked [...]
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Nostalgic gaming that’s still good – Dizzy Prince of the Yolk Folk
Posted: 15th December 2011 by Age in Interesting Discoveries, MusingsTags: dizzy, gaming
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…and you thought it was HMRC. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. With work, commuting, Christmas shopping, washing, ironing, eating, pooping, blah, blah, blah…where are we meant to fit in the fun stuff? I’ve got so much to do already that finding time to blog, write stories, help @zombie_dod and others with their [...]
The freelance photographer with an eye for detail
Posted: 2nd December 2010 by Age in MusingsTags: cat in snow, freelance photographer, http://churchill-images.com, snow kent, zombie
You might think me biased (being his friend and all) but some people have a talent which you truly have to stand back and admire. Scott is one of those people. A freelance photographer with an eye for detail he snaps wonderful photos with ease. Yet he’s so awfully fussy – out of 40,000 photographs [...]
Devon school children launched Spudnik 2 in a science experiment; basically a plastic bottle with a GPA tracking system, a camera and a potato dressed as a Santa strung to a helium weather balloon. It brought back images from space! Now this is what it’s all about – I love it! I remember a teacher at my junior school who had [...]
I’m not homophobic but that’s ghey
Posted: 16th November 2010 by Age in MusingsTags: gay, ghey, homophobic, internet terminology
One of the chaps in the office said he was trying to break his kid of certain phrases. Apparently his 9 year old had taken to running around calling things “gay”. It’s the craze, everyone’s doing it. Back in the day, “Gay” meant to be happy, then later it was a reference to homosexuals, now [...]
Things that are funny but probably shouldn’t be
Posted: 10th November 2010 by Age in MusingsTags: millbank riots, shocked woman
Sometimes you stifle a snigger laughing at something totally appropriate that you know shouldn’t be funny. Like this snap of a “shocked” woman attending the Millbank Riots. Apparently she doesn’t like seeing Police beating protesters. In reality it looks like she’s just seen a rather large and unexpected penis. A colleague bought a leaving present [...]
My lovely mate Zombie honoured me with his photography skills this weekend. Totally worth sharing.
This is again a project I am working on in my secret laboratory and I claim full rights to the idea. For all ladies out there who are in my position, you will certainly mull over this new and completely original idea. Do you have a husband who doesn’t like parties, weddings, Barmitzvahs or indeed any [...]
First Person or Third Person?
Posted: 27th October 2010 by Age in Musings, WritingTags: 1st person, 3rd person, perspective, writing
I’m what you could call a “bedroom” author – that is I write in my bedroom, not about bedrooms. I used to be a bedroom DJ, no one really heard me play, but a few choice people have read my stories. I’ve always written fiction in the third person, but lately I’ve been toying with [...]
Possibly the best phone in the world
Posted: 27th October 2010 by Age in MusingsTags: blackberry, iphone, mobile, phone, world
In this wonderful world of free speech where Kodabar, Lex and I can all dream up our own ideal video games and no one will pay any attention whatsoever, I thought about what other wonderful things I could conjure up with my imagination. The mobile phone Yesterday I was musing with a friend about how [...]