who, me?

SOAD

john — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:29:20 +0000

One of my ipod-listening habits is rating all my music while listening to it, the better to make smrt playlists with just the good stuff if I feel so inclined.

Well, after listening to an album’s-worth of System of a Down (no idea which at this point), I was unimpressed enough to consider it worth an uninformed rant on the dormant blog.

System of a Down; Illiterate, Whiny, Suicide-Metal Nonsense.

Nonsense is an underrated word.

Dilbert…

john — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:57:40 +0000

So for those of you who care about such things, I have lately been appalled by the new Dilbert Flash Website, which seems to have significantly less utility than its predecessor.

Imagine my surprise then at discovering a competent way of viewing new strips without the flash wankery at dilbert.com/fast . A simple page with nothing but the strip (as a downloadable GIF at last check), a couple of back/ forward arrows and a calendar panel to view previous strips. Highly recommended!

Crap Poker

john — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:53:03 +0000

Yes, its time for an increasingly infrequent update!

Introduced to me by some friends last week, Crap Poker is a great way of recycling and disposing of your unwanted junk. Recipe below…

1. Gather all the unwanted junk that you don’t want from around your house. Have friends do the same.

2. Congregate at someone’s house. Bring the Crap with you.

3. Gather round a table. Write a slip of paper for each item you have brought [eg. Animatrix VHS, CD Rack].

4. Around the table, allocate a number to each item, value 1-3 [3 being highest]. VHS tapes are usually 1, DVDs may be 1 or 2 depending on content, a PC desk may be 3.
5. Use the bits of paper as poker chips, with values as set previously. You may require a pack of cards at this point. The maximum numeric crap unit value bet in a hand is 10.
The great thing about this game is that you may find yourself wanting to A) lose to get rid of stuff you don’t want, and also B) win to get something that your opponent is nuts to want rid of ‘cos its great [and in so doing pick up your crap again].

The game can be brought to a more interesting end by playing the final hand ‘blind’ - cards are dealt face down, you can swap cards twice but you are not allowed to look at what you have until after bidding is concluded. A good, but risky way of attempting to get rid of your final pile of junk.

Everyone should watch…

john — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:27:08 +0000

Newstopia has been described as an Australian successor to The Day Today, and is very comedy…

Google Video Link

The Youtube higher-res video thinger

john — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:14:36 +0000

Having got round to buying and watching Once, I had a wee look around youtube for clips and found their Oscar acceptance speech, closely followed by a performance of Falling Slowly backstage at Sundance. I then got around to trying the Youtube URL manipulation for higher-resolution clips, given the quality of the clip presented. Compare and Contrast; the previous link at standard res, and this one using the MP4 codec. I was pretty impressed really, there’s far more definition in both video and sound quality…

Incidentally, Once is great…

This still amuses me…

john — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:20:24 +0000

Multiversity

Well…

john — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:10:24 +0000

…is it?

In 2 weeks, it will be 10 years since 1998…

john — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:29:12 +0000

Yes, we’re all old!

Also, I’m afraid i’m not going to make it across the sea for new year, for the first time in some… um, time. My timings have kinda screwed up this year, and attached to financey things it just didn’t work. Hopefully I’ll see y’all sometime during the year. Aside from anything else, I need my WO fix!

Crowbar++

john — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:18:42 +0000

The Stanley Fubar

Worth a watch…

john — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:46:24 +0000

Writers Strike thinger…

[youtube]

My attempts to embed the video in the post failed miserably…