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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
“A watched pot never boils.” What the hell? Of course it boils. In exactly the same time as it would if it were unobserved. What, is there some kind of quantum thing going on here? No, the only time a watched pot wouldn’t boil is if you were the bastard...
Travelling alone, riding a cross-country train into the darkness of evening, enraptured by music and by story, I experience a strange feeling that something is different, something has fundamentally changed. Wrapped up in fantasies, I revel in what pathetic part of my wanderlust I am allowed to exorcise. But yet,...
As part of my irrational desire to teach myself OpenGL programming, I’m making a game that’s (currently at least) called Gunboat. It’s a fairly slow-paced 2D shooter that has the player in command of a ship, protecting a harbour from an attacking fleet. There’s not that much of a game...
Candles burn in the windows of the flat, dividing the warmth of the inside from the darkness and the snow that still coats the ground outside. Today, after being out of the house an hour, I’d travelled about a hundred yards. All in all, two and a half hours were...
A black man is the leader of the free world. Not only that, but one in whose inaugration speech favourably mentioned Islam, atheism and scientific reasoning. I think we might be on the right track after all. Or rather, I think they might. Because I’m not American. Before very long,...
Today has been a silly day. I present: Why LARPers should not have children. In related news, why roleplayers should not watch pre-school television shows. I will run this game one day, mark my words!
Neo Garlic!, originally uploaded by Tsuki-chama. Neo Garlic’s power level is over 9000!
This week has been a good one for food. Thanks to non-traditional (or at least not traditionally British) Christmas dinners, I’ve had five different meats over the last three days, if you’ll indulge my reference to pork loin and gammon as different things. And I’ve two days running had my...
What the hell? Suddenly, it’s the 19th of December. It’s my last day at work before two weeks of Christmas holiday. But where was the build-up? Where the sense of the joyous release of the holiday season? Is it a sign that I’m getting older - or perhaps that I’m...
Clearly I work for an uncool defence contractor, or something. I wonder how you get into the cool side… Also squee, (the bit after the credits)!