We survived.
We made it around in 2hrs 34mins and were placed 321st (out of 1690 finishers and ~2000 starters). It seemed harder than last year but we did do it 20 minutes quicker. A few changes to the course (notably the Berlin Wall was another 10 foot higher and was mainly a climb [...]
Archive > July 2006
Nettle Warriors
Tough Guy kit list
I’ve been dreaming about Tough Guy lately. In fact, I’ve been having dreams about Tough Guy on and off for the last few months. The dreams have all been on the same theme: I’m late for the start, forgot to go or, having remembered to go and been on time, I’ve forgotten, lost [...]
Scary Little Girls
I’ve started playing F.E.A.R. (which stands for First Encounter Assault Recon which is awful but never mind.) It took me the best part of a week to be able to even get to the main menu because the DVD is copy protected using Securom. A bit of searching shows that this has caused [...]
Working with Portals
Oh. My. God.*
Update: My initial reaction was because I thought this was actually part of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 but it turns out it’s a single player puzzle game, although the portal technology is well suited to the HL2 world. A shame as I was looking forward to using a combination of [...]
Time Marches On
I left university over ten years ago but only today have I finally figured out what the title of my dissertation should have been.
Instead of “Can censorship ever be justified?”, I should have researched the answer to the question “Why are films and music censored and given age ratings but books and paintings are not?”
This [...]
Nettle Warrior Countdown: T minus 12 days
I received another newsletter about Tough Guy today and along with it, my race number and Death Warrant (the disclaimer which I sign to say that if I die before I complete the course, I won’t be eligible for either a medal or a nice refreshing cup of tea) and some last minute info about [...]
Knee Deep
This pretty much sums up my life since last week:
Wading through shit!
(Metaphorically speaking of course. I won’t actually be wading through real shit until the weekend after this!)
Back soon.
Mice and Men (Best Laid Plans part 2)
I resigned this morning.
My manager’s first question was “Have you found another job?” My answer? “Nope. I’m going to be a gentleman of leisure.”
Well, as much leisure as is left over after looking after an 8 month old baby for 3 days a week.
I rule.
Best Laid Plans
You know how, after an evening’s drinking and after you’ve put the world to rights and explained exactly why, in your opinion, the country would be a much better place if all the trees moved one inch to the left, you sometimes end up discussing a personal issue and come to the conclusion that there’s [...]
Post Run Review
The JPM run last night was horrendous. There were around 12000 people taking part and I didn’t get that close to the front so had to fight my way through the sweating horde. This made for an interesting fartlek of a race as it was easy to get stuck behind a slow paced [...]
