Archive for June, 2010
What’s the best dinosaur?
Posted on in Dinosaurs.Dino Mini round up
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures.Some new dinosaur miniatures to tempt your wallet:
Khurasan Miniatures have previewed some feathered raptors that are intended to be 15mm Deinonychus but also work as 28mm Velociraptors.
Acheson Creations continue to release figures in their 28mm Primaeval Designs range, including some dire wolves, 4 packs of Neanderthals and the Nanotyrannus shown here.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20
Posted on in Tweets.- 3 Blogs updated to WordPress 3.0. Must find time to redo my theme and play with the new features. #
- I could take 32 @justinbieber's in a fight! http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/justin_bieber via @oatmeal #
- Last night I dreamt I was buying a house from John Simm 'cos we were both wearing Wales rugby tops. It doesn't make sense to me either. #fb #
- Just some plastic being blown about by the wind. #butthisisreallife #fb #
- Ooo, there's a very strange noise outside. I wonder what it is…? #ifthiswasahorromovie #fb #
- Take the Big Gamer Survey 2010 before it ends! Plus you could win free games too! http://playfire.com/gamersurvey/3332313536 #
Top 5, First Letter, Music Meme, in the key of W
Posted on in Memes, Music.- Reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter.
- List (and upload, if you feel like it) five songs that start with that letter.
- Post them to your journal with these instructions.
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ggreig gave me the letter “W”, well he gave me “Z” first but with only eight Z-tracks in my iTunes that would have been somewhat limited so we mutually agreed to go with the second choice.
- Weekend Without Makeup – The Long Blondes
- What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
- We Almost Got It Together – Tanita Tikaram
- We’re Going To Be Friends – The White Stripes
- When I Grow Up – Garbage
Argh! That was hard. I had a long list of about 25 and a short list of ten but getting it down to five took all evening.
Casting suggestion
Posted on in Films, The World.The home page of BBC News is currently reporting on BP CEO Tony Hayward getting a telling off from the US Congress. And they are illustrating it with this picture:
If Michael Sheen is looking for his next real life role then he need look no further, the similarity is much greater than with Brian Clough, David Frost or even Tony Blair.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13
Posted on in Tweets.- A very inaccurate one. If I had to guess I might go with Pachyrhinosaurus (@supernicemango)http://yfrog.com/mwvo7j #
- Getting annoyed with Apple… #
- Doctor Who was rather good.
But there's nothing else on telly tonight. 
#fb # - Day two of #wdx #atmedia was great stuff, lots of HTML5 goodness. I got to quickly catch up with @mattb – it's a long time since Balliol #fb #
- Survived day one of #wdx #atmedia Enjoyed the talks on mobile web and SVG. But the silver bags? Oh dear. #fb #
- And going by train is effectively two sides of a triangle, but going by any other means takes even longer #fb #
- Bollocks. I have to get up how early to make it to #atmedia despite only living 5 miles away? Trains all run the wrong way… #fb #
- Learnt today – at Whitechapel Station the Overground line is below the Underground line. #
- Trying to solve a problem that isn't quite Information Architecture and isn't quite Technical Architecture but somewhere nebulous in between #
Not quite the normal meaning of free verse
Posted on in My Life.Wednesday’s NaBloPoMo question,
What’s your favourite poem? (And if you don’t have one, why?)
There was a young hooker from Kew
Who filled her vagina with glue
She said with a grin
“If they pay to get in
They can pay to get out of it too!”
And Thursday’s,
Define “freedom.”
Mostly, the freedom to post tasteless limericks. 
When I grow up…
Posted on in My Life.The folks over at NaBloPoMo have declared that June’s theme is Now and have also implemented a prompt of the day, similar to LiveJournal’s Writer’s Block feature. Seeing as I haven’t been posting much of late I thought I’d give it a try.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
An astronaut.
In the late ’70s and early ’80s we were at the tail end of the space race era – the moon landings were still recent (and very few people imagined that, 30 years later, we wouldn’t have gone back), the shuttle was brand new and shiny, oh, and Star Wars was in the cinema.
I’m not an astronaut. Yet.