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It hardly seems relevant now, but that’s never stopped me in the past – one of the key elements I totally forgot to refer to in the Arcade Gaming story was the 3-letter-nicknames thing! As with most computer games, arcade games always had a High Score table – the difference between the modern setup and…
Ordinarily I wouldn’t bitch about fashion availability, but this concerns the potential purchase of a pair of Awesome Trousers. My life’s goal is the acquisition of Awesome Trousers. I can’t seem to back this claim up with readily available photographs, but it’s true. Anyway, I just got an email from a company I’ve bought cool…
This post was sort of inspired by reading Wil Wheaton’s recent piece reminiscing about arcade gaming. It was a particularly memory-inducing post, because as a child of the 80’s (or more accurate, a child of the mid-70’s, growing up in the 80’s), arcade games were a fairly present part of childhood, and who doesn’t like…
Just read in an interview with Ross Noble the following statement about my home town, Adelaide: Whereas other cities have spread themselves over several streets, Adelaide has not felt the need to do that. They’ve just gone, “Yeah, one street should do it. We’ll put the shops up one end and the restaurants down the…
OK, so one of my favourite particle physicists – Dr Simon Singh, author of “Big Bang” (the best book I’ve ever read on the development of understanding of the origin of the universe) – is in a spot of legal hot water at the moment surrounding a comment piece he wrote for The Guardian (mirrored…
What a weekend! This year saw the 75th anniversary of The Morris Ring, celebrated at the Thaxted Ring Meeting (I know, the what?!), and once again the Westminster Morris Men were honoured to participate. What this translates into for our young hero is a weekend absolutely jam-packed with dancing, beer sampling, travelling around Essex, watching…
Incredible: 10 minutes of sunshine on a Friday and this is what you get. It’s impossible to tell whether there’s been a fire drill, or if people have just bunked off early for a pint. Good job I’m still beavering away in the office in a dedicated way. At blogging, I guess.
I’ve hinted in prior blogs about being an avid reader (and subscriber) of the great British magazine, Viz. One of the things that appeals most to me is the outright stupidity inherent in a lot of the material in it. The “Top Tips” is always a favourite, however I’m a massive fan of “Letterbocks”. It’s…
Bugger. Just found out from Dad that our little dog Bojangles passed away this morning back in Adelaide: something to do with diabetic complications, which we didn’t realise he had. I was really looking forward to seeing him again at Christmas. Depressingly stupid animal, but a real little character, scamp & scoundrel nonetheless. We think…
Adelaidean superstar BKK & her sword-wielding boyfriend moved over to sunny London fairly recently (I say “recently” – I think they’ve been over about 6 months now, but then I’m still working on blog posts from that long ago too, so it’s all relative, innit?), and it’s been marvellous fun to have more people from…