Hope the big man in red and white brings you what you want.
As for me, I’ve just asked for sleep!
Archive > December 2005
Happy Christmas/Winterveil/Life Day/whatever you celebrate
Hatchling
Male, 8lbs 11oz, 9:48am.
Mother exhausted but fine. Baby is healthy and hungry, despite being two weeks early. Father is going down the pub.
Today I witnessed one of lifes little miracles and can now understand why people are so wowed by the experience.
All hands on deck!
I was going to write a missive about Star Wars pre-history and Stalinist revisionism but it looks like my wife may have gone into labour so it’ll have to wait.
Child’s play
I am sorely tempted to try out a new MMOG but get quickly irritated with having to share my fantasy world with 11 year old uber l337 gamz0rs trying to duel me at ever oppurtunity. What they need is an adults only game – perhaps a little like Sociolotron.
This game, which [...]
Isn’t it ironic?
Contrary to popular belief, the definition of irony as listed in dictionary.com is not made of iron but is actually this:
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
. (Okay, so there are other definitions too but they’re mainly to do with irony being a synonym for sarcasm and still nothing to do [...]
Identity
I’m bored of stalking Simon Pegg. It never really quite turned into what I thought it might. I feel I need to ‘re-imagine’ myself. Basically I’m thinking of redesigning the site (possibly this evening during a tedious 3 hour conference call with the US) and changing the name again. Of course, [...]
New Toy
I just bought one of these.
Seemed like a good idea at the time. Except I’ve no idea how I’m going to afford to by my flatscreen, HD ready, 42″ plasma TV now.
Ho hum.
In Motion
The title song on Neubauten’s last album, Perpetuum Mobile, was inspired by the copious amounts of travelling that the band did and the lyrics intriguingly describe a life spent away from home, wandering through international airports and hanging around in the queue at customs.
This morning, the song happened to be playing as I [...]