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| Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | | 8:17 am |
Help with a quiz?
There's a mini competition on boardgamegeek I'm trying to complete, which involves rebus puzzles of board game names. I've got almost every one, but I'm unsure of 14 because I have no freaking idea what the thing in the middle is. It looks vaguely familiar, like it's from an old movie or something, but... Anyone have any idea? Current Mood:  annoyed | | 2:16 am |
| | Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | | 3:38 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 | | 8:31 pm |
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Links Post Number 55
And now some reassurance that under all that emotion, the world is mostly just completely insane. The theme for today's links is pure wtf-ness! The 10 Most Baffling Action Figure Accessories of All-Time. Because what the fastest man alive really needs is a motorcycle! Cat registered as hypnotherapist. "You will provide me with tuna. Tuunnnaaa..." Regretsy. The darker side of the the pit of crafty creativity known at Etsy. Warning; some of the stuff on the site is not safe for work. Or your brain. Or your sanity... The Best of Awful Library Books 2009. Featuring such classics as "Dee Snider's Teenage Survival Guide" and the unfortunately named "What's Wrong with my Snake?" It's the next food craze! Warning: do not open link if you are a vegetarian or sane. Finally, there's this book which is... I mean, I don't even... Uh? Not safe for work? If you are a passionate cook and are not afraid to experiment with new ingredients - you will love this cook book! ...New ingredients. *backs away* Current Mood:  scared | | Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 | | 2:42 am |
Links Post Number 54
The theme for this post is moving things. No, not things on YouTube, things that are moving emotionally. About living and dying and feeling. I will warn you in advance; some of these links made me cry. True stories told in one sentence. These are the most popular of all time. They are simultaneously depressing, moving and uplifting. The only existing film images of Anne Frank. Things I learned from Holly. One person's experience of love, with all its awkwardness and wonderfulness. Whatever you do, don't panic. Transcripts of calls to 999 in Britain, with some actual calls to listen to. The transcripts are more comfortable to read than the calls are to listen to. Something about hearing the panic in the voices... But they were okay in the end! And finally, something to show that combining real life and art together can produce the most moving thing of all. The winner of "Ukraine's got Talent". I know, I know. It's one of those silly reality shows. But this is amazingly different. She's not a singer or a dancer or someone with a silly gimmick. She's a sand artist and what she creates is just... beautiful. One and Two. Current Mood:  contemplative | | Friday, January 1st, 2010 | | 3:10 am |
| | Monday, December 21st, 2009 | | 6:58 pm |
| | Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | | 12:16 am |
| | Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | | 11:46 pm |
Links Post Number 53
Okay, I've got time on my hands, I'm going to make a concentrated effort to get some posts in this thing. And since it's been ages since I've done one of these I've got enough links stacked up to do a few of these. Hell, I can probably theme them! Let's see...the theme of this links post is inanimate objects! Firstly, let's have a dissection! Haven't you always wanted to know what was in a magic 8-ball? The mystery is solved in a way that probably seems gruesome if you're an 8-ball! You know those cool machines you get at tourist attractions that squish pennies into a somehow much more awesome souvenir? The people at this site certainly know them! In fact, they have a list of almost every penny squishing machine in the world so that you too can build a squished collection you can be proud of. I may or may not have collected a few myself while visiting all the attractions :-). How to make a hollow coin. I suspect it only works in the US, yet I can't help but think it's cool. Owner of garden patio ornament is told it's actually an ancient Egyptian artefact. Oops. The water pistol umbrella. That's kind of awesome. This is the most adorable home made version of a game I've ever seen. " Pass the Piggies". And there's a pattern if you're talented. Sadly I am not :-(. Finally, who says you have to have sentience to have a twitter account? Big Ben's twitter is right over here and it's certainly the coolest site written by a huge bell I've ever seen. Not a lot of variety there, I'll admit. Big Ben is focused :-). Current Mood:  cheerful | | Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | | 11:01 am |
Ahh!
It's totally snowing outside! In London! Sure, some may say it's just a flurry, but there are flakes. All drifty! Oooh! Current Mood:  giddy | | Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | | 4:45 pm |
Man, I'm really crap at this 'keeping a record' thing.
I tend to disappear for a month or two, do a spat of posting, and then disappear again. Will I ever change my ways? Who knows? Anyway, I'm on the train back to London from York at the moment, where I spent a rather nice time. I didn't think there would be any tourists there at all as this is hardly the season, but there were still a reasonable amount. York does have a lot to do if you're a tourist, I have to admit. The Minster is the big one, but there are many museums and heritage sites. I especially recommend the Castle Museum, which is huge and awesome. As well as York, since my last post I have: - visited Colchester (the oldest recorded town in Britain, apparently) - visited Brighton. In the rain. - watched Guy Fawkes fireworks (two days after Guy Fawkes night, because it was a weekday) - went to the Natural History Museum again. Finished looking through all the sections that were there last time, but there's another that's been opened since then! - went to a matinee of La Cage Aux Folles with John Barrowman in it - went to Dusseldorf and Essen in Germany, in order to attend Spiel, the largest board game convention in the world. It was pretty awesome, actually. I'll try to do a bigger update soon. Maybe? Hopefully? :-) Hope all my flist is well :-). Current Mood:  bouncy | | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 12:05 am |
| | Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | | 11:04 pm |
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As an addendum to the last post, I wondered whether there was an actual meaning to the term 'Boo-yah', or whether it was just one of those things you yelled when things were cool. So I looked it up.Number 6 is...not what I meant. You learn something new everyday? Current Mood:  weird | | 10:55 pm |
Back home for another week...
...then I'm going to head back to the UK probably until March, I think. I mean, I've got the visa until my birthday in October next year, so I may as well use it, right? I've come back for a few weeks to catch up with people, attend a teacher friend's wedding and see S and confirm her okayness :-). She's out of hospital and recovering well, so that's a relief. I'm staying at my parents house and it's nice to just relax for a bit. I haven't really gotten everything done that I said I would, however. Ah well. In other news, I've decided to attend Spiel 2009 in Essen, which is basically the biggest board game festival in the world. I've been really enjoying the games I've played at the game club I joined, and since I'm going to be closer to Germany this year than I'm likely to be for a while, I might as well go for it. Boo-yah! Current Mood: cheerful | | Sunday, September 6th, 2009 | | 9:52 pm |
What I've seen and done so far: Geeky things!
- London MCM – This was a film, comic, but mostly gaming convention at the Excel centre in London. They were trying to set a record for the most people dressed as video game characters in one place, which means there were lots of awesome costumes around. - The Hub 2 – A Torchwood (Doctor Who spin-off) convention in Northhampton. Most of the cast where there and they were very entertaining. - Torchwood mini-series preview – At the BFI on the river. The first episode was really character driven and team-centred, which was why I was so disappointed when the whole mini became less and less about the original characters and more about a bunch of new characters I wasn’t half as interested in. And then they pretty much killed off the whole original show in the finale, which was just fine if you hadn’t actually liked the original show. - Watchmen and Wolverine – Saw the first in a tiny theatre in Leicester Square, the second in the local cinema near where I live. Gambit and Wade Wilson were cool. Plus the Watchmen credits. - The Torchwood Forum Meet-Up – Met up with a bunch of people from an online forum I browse at. We hung around Cardiff and had a lot of fun. - The Doctor Who Exhibition in Cardiff – This was seen while we were there. You needed to be a kid to really get into the ‘terrifying atmosphere’ but it was fun seeing all the props :-). - London Film and Comic Convention – I saw Tom Baker at this one, although it was hard to tell what he was saying because of poor sound equipment and a stage that was not cut off from the rest of the convention. What I did hear proved that he was just as bonkers as everyone always said he was :-). - Joined a weekly board game club – I’ve always been interested in board games, but could never really find enough people who were interested in playing a variety of complex ones regularly. The great thing about being in London is that there are always people around interested in anything. This is a well organized club and the people are very friendly. My favourites from what I’ve played so far have been Amun Re and Stone Age. ( Pictures: ) Current Mood:  tired | | Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | | 1:25 am |
Things to Watch Post Number 4
He Dies at the End. A short indie film. As you might imagine from the title, you might not want to click if you're the jumpy type. Every jellybaby scene from Doctor Who (except for a handful that got missed). I really didn't realise there were so many of them! OMG I'm having bad nostalgic flashbacks. Emphasis on the 'bad'... I've always loved this song from Kate Bush, but I only recently saw the video. It's got some awesome interpretive dance in it, as well as some awesomely weird moves. Very Kate Bush :-). Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer. What do you mean, it wasn't made in 1954? And to finish with some creepy reality, " The War Game". Created for the BBC in 1965 as a "fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city", it was declared too disturbing to show on television and was instead licensed to play in a limited number of theatres. It was finally shown on the BBC in 1985, when the cold war had been going on for quite some time and people where presumably more jaded about these things. It's a bit over the top at times, but the calm documentary manner is genuinely rather chilling, moreso for knowing that the threat of nuclear weapons has not receded as much as we wish it has... Current Mood: awake | | Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | | 11:30 pm |
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| | Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | | 12:20 am |
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