Walsingham

I bought Far Cry 2 on teh special offer. A couple of thoughts: - It's all very PC, but why are there so many white mercenaries. You would almost think there weren't any black people in Africa. - Why does everyone shoot on sight? It's too hot to take that attitude in Africa during the day. Why can't you establish a reputation as a professional, and they'll look the other way in exchange for beer and help? Maybe a mission per checkpoint? - Guns break very fast. I'm just glad I don't own a real one. It would go exploding every 200 rounds. - Two things about Africa: colours, and smells. i know they can't encode the smell of an open sewer, or hot grass, or the rich red eath after a storm, but they could get the colours right. Everything looks washed out.

You're all perverts. What is this? Luddite-sidian?

He's engaged in a war with his own face.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7966390.stm Which comes first? The delusional mindstate and self-importance which can sustain a beard like that? Or is it the beard? Or is it the terrorism?

I couldn't have one of them. No room on my desk. I need that space for... *looks* a small screwdriver, a nectarine, a banana, a disposable razor, and a watch that shoots tiny plastic rockets. I do still rate the thing because it's a bright sunny day and I can have the sun on my face while still working.

What? Walsausages - the slightly attainable cure for a broken heart? It has originality, if nothing else. And of course, they have to be very cheap sausages in quality, so big profits for us. Sluggo can be chief accountant. Enoch: on no accuont are you to drink malt whisky over ice. You insane bastard. Once you get that sorted you can use some of your insanely massive salary to hire all of us forum goons as your winged monkeys.

Personally, I agree that your school doesn't matter too much. But the sad fact is there are always snobs to whom it does matter. Actually, having said that, I think that may be less true as a subject becomes more arty. Photography and psychology spring to mind. A lot of those comes down to style of tuition and emphasis in spirit. However, ultimately who you are will come through after about five years in your profession anyway.

That sucks, man. On the plus side you won't turn into a hipster asshat.

Helping my friend plan his new start up business. It's a lot of fun doing the conceptual stuff. Read a bit, ate salad, played Company of Heroes, sorted company accounts (again).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7961889.stm I just loved the attitudes of the guys doing it. Very simple and straightforward. No false hyperactivity. But still very original and neat.

Oh I'll use the bastards, with much satisfaction. I just don't understand them. It's rather like the Welsh.

What if that's how we talk in England? Eh? Eh? I am sorry for your loss, Gorgo. I haven't lost my mum yet, but I can guess what it will be like. I lost my godfather to cancer and was fething FURIOUS for ages. I just couldn't believe how someone so awesome could be taken when so many asshats still ran around free. It's funny, because in many ways I do feel like I'm growing up all over again. I had to support my mum when I was a teenager through chronic depression and recovery after spinal meningitis. It offset the teenage rebellion until I left at 17 and went travelling. Even then it wasn't on purpose. I just came back and found I'd gone far beyond the restraints I had known. Finding she had cancer i did what I am used to doing, which is help, in spite of any trivial interpersonal rubbish. What I'm doing now is different, because it's a rebellion from my siblings. They've always been far more 'cool', even though looking back I've got a lot more to show for my life, and I guess I have been struggling to overcome the feeling of distance. It's natural to want some sort of familial bond, but frankly I don't see it happening for most people. It's the people you choose, your friends, who you really get close to and can count on. A bit depressing. But it's not totally bleak, after all. I mean you've only got one family. You can make as many friends as you like! I do feel sorry for my family, in spite of everything.

ROFL.

Makes sense to me. Look at Citizen Kane. An undeniably old film, with many hokey shenanigans. But at the same time, perfectly captivating (although it's bloody long).

I had a small revelation yesterday that is just sinking in. I'm sure many of you who have left home will have had the "Dammit I can eat a whole bag of sweets if I feel like it " moment. I had that moment many years ago now, but I suddenly realised that I've spent the last five years subordinated to my family pressures, and by God I'll not stand for it any more. I'm sick of the whole business. I'll stand by my mum, but the rest can hang. I'm an adult, I'm a professional, I've been stabbed, shot at, and s**t on, yet I've been letting the squirrely bastards point fingers and define who I am for all this time. On that note, I'm off for a walk.

It was the one thing I really disliked about Cloverfield - the shaking camera. I found it annoying to the point of wanting to yell at the screen and say, 'Stop shaking the god damn camera so I can watch this!' I couldn't wait for it to be over. I felt physically ill, and had to close my eyes to prevent myself throwing up. It was completely excessive in its shaking. It didn't have to shake ALL the time. Grrrr... BR for me was a simple noir film. But that's me loving Raymond Chnadler and all his works. BTW, I went looking for Silent Running, and somehow wound up watching this clip of robots fighting in The Black Hole. Possibly the funniest fight scene EVER. Look out for the robot wang uppercut!

To maintain your credibility I'm going to pretend that thing is ten foot wide.

You'd like alot of Neural Network stuff... Actually i hate neural networks. Fething mental stuff. Great in theory, but I find them impossible to understand at the technical level.

For that much money I'd want a flunky in a white tuxedo to towel the damn machine for me.

I self-censored, it doesn't say p**nts.

I still have the somewhat cautious sense that I made a good choice. I wouldn't say a screen like this was necessary, but as one of my primary tools during the day it justifies the expense. It's awfully crisp, I can use it with the curtains open on a sunny day, and it's extremely well set up. As an aside, someone told me that the screeen is made by LG. So the advice to get an LG may have been quite sound.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpict...bamboo-sap.html

It's not being prissy to expect to not have to roll around in other people's sweat. I say that having had to fend off numerous athlete's foot infections and verrucas. It's only a towel for ****'s sake!

Onion news: no food diet As always, it's the care and detail on tehse spoofs that makes the Onion rule supreme

Your mum is imaginary. For real. I was just interested because we seem to have so many eductaed people on teh board. Maths is something I've come to late in life, but with a convert's enthusiasm.