I’m not sure what to think – the deadpool game is in obvious bad taste; but the ghoulish way the media reported every up and down of George Best’s last few weeks makes me feel somewhat uneasy for doing the same.
As far as the game is concerned this moves Janice and Chris up from one death to two where they join Bethan. Andy, Paul and myself have four deaths each and Jolyon brings up the rear with just one.
Just five weeks to go so time to start thinking about next year’s lists. Will 2006 match 2005 in deadliness?
Joe Strummer… you’ve been through the cleansing fire of punk, only to pick up a few venerial venereal diseases along the way. You’re more of an optimist when it comes to fucked-up genius. But you can write wicked-deadly riffs and lycs lyrics.
I wish the people who write these things would learn to spell – venerial is clearly a mistake, though lycs is ambiguous and just about could be licks rather than lyrics.
If you saw this as a search term in the log report for your web site, what would you think? contact or mail or email or phone or fax or tel site www.stevepugh.net
A Google search for contact OR mail OR email OR phone OR fax OR tel site:www.stevepugh.net returns lots of hits, mostly because the individual post pages on this blog all have the word e-mail as part of the comments form.
Some one must really want to get in touch with me, but considering they already have the domain name why go to all this effort when there there’s an e-mail address listed on just about every page on the site?
Okay, the big question of the day: Civilization IV or Age of Empires III?
Actually, the bigger question is will either run on either of my laptops?
The newer laptop has better processor, memory, graphics card… but the graphics card overheats (or something) and screws up the display after a period of intensive use (games and to a lesser extent videos). So whilst I could play, for example, Doom III on the newer laptop I could only play for a limited period before I needed to shut the computer down and leave it for a few hours to recover.
The older laptop is lower spec and has a general overheating problem which means I need to make sure it’s well ventilated if I want to play without the risk of a abrupt shutdown. But so long as I avoid that I can play for ages within the limits of the machines performance.
Guess I need to get hold of the demos and see what happens. Or maybe I need to find the space and money for a desktop. Now that we’ve moved to a bigger flat (though the yarn mountain means that it doesn’t feel as big as when we moved in) and now that I’m no longer working from home, my computer needs have changed. I don’t need a laptop for work purposes any more so maybe a gaming machine makes sense.
Recently I’ve been playing Civ III a lot on the old machine (another, unrelated, bug stops it from working at all on the newer one). Last night I won without fighting a single war. Playing as the Arabs I built the United Nations and was elected Secretary General by all the other nations (except the other candidate who obviously voted for himself). Especially pleasing to avoid conflict as my territory contained no coal, rubber, oil or aluminium so I was totally stuffed for modern resources.
Press Release from Conquest Miniatures on TMP. Three paragraphs of sales blurb (about Zombie Pygmies BTW. Zombie Pygmies? Cool.) and then: “…Or just buy them and throw ‘em in a box with all your other stuff!”. Such a very true thing.
Just said by me, to my boss, whilst banging my head against the desk, and it’s not even ten o’clock yet: “If the answer is JavaScript, the question is wrong.”
For reasons that aren’t important I found myself looking at the web site of Michael White which says “Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d’Overbroeck’s College in Oxford”.
Now I spent the best part of five years in Oxford and I’ve never heard of d’Overbroeck’s College. A quick google reveals that it’s a sixth form college. But would that be your first conclusion based on the simple sentence above? Lecturer. College. Oxford. With no further qualification given, that all screams University doesn’t it?
Of course, I’ve never polished a CV, oh no, not me.
Lots of classic features and some new twists. Better than the Revenge design; probably better than the 80s design (which I have an irrational soft spot); but is it a classic like the Tomb design? We’ll have to see it action – I’m curious to see if the mouth is a 60s style shutter or an 80s style jaw.
If, as seems to be the case, the actors’ feet are in the flares and the actor is looking out the mouth slot, then they should be suitably towering.
Not a case for Use JavaScript after all, unless Quizilla are so lazy that they can’t implement a trivial fix. This is the bug report I just sent to them:
Currently a click anywhere in your pages causes Opera to open up the main menu. This is particularly annoying when filling out a quiz as selecting an answer to question one causes the main menu to appear and cover the text of question two.
