Welcome to the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing* Strange World of Axel Fendersson mk. II! So I finally got around to doing something I’ve been vaguely considering doing for almost as long as I’ve had a blog at all: migrating it over to WordPress rather than using Blogger to administer it and Haloscan for comments. I’ve set [...]
Archive of posts filed under the General Mumbling category.
Government advisor sacked for giving wrong advice
Links: BBC News, The Guardian, The Times. So the government has a board of scientists to advise them on drugs policy. That’s good thinking. It’s good to have some hard facts available when making policy decisions. Unfortunately, the advice they give is at odd with that of the tabloid press, so the government ignores them. [...]
Hatred from Hull
Well, this makes a change from the more usual “Three of your friends have a crush on you!” adverts: This would be more convincing if I actually knew anyone from Hull. Okay, not much more convincing, but still. Presumably these people hate me because they envy the fact I don’t live in Hull.
Monkey Island, Special Edition
www.monkeyislandspecialedition.com Not sure what I think about this. From what I gather, the game is completely faithful to the original. The story is the same, the dialogue is the same, the jokes are the same. They’ve just tarted up the graphics, UI and sound. Which at least means that this ‘remake’ isn’t sacrilegious, but does [...]
European Elections
So, election yesterday. If you didn’t vote, you suck (assuming you were eligible, obviously). If you voted BNP, you also suck (I thought Charlie Brooker’s recent column on the subject was rather good). What I don’t understand is why anyone would vote for UKIP or No2EU or whoever in this election. Okay so you don’t [...]
Farcebook and Naughty Chavs
I’ve been playing the ‘Rock Legends’ game on Farcebook recently. This game somehow manages the shameful combination of being both boring and addictive. However, I have forgiven it these faults on the grounds that it produced the following auto-generated band name: In other news, chav porn! Complete with David-Cameron-inspired title.
The Wire
Have you been watching The Wire on BBC2 the last couple of weeks? It’s on every weeknight (except tomorrow, presumably because it’s Good Friday) 23.20-00.20 (give or take five minutes). Because if you haven’t, you need to start. Go find a torrent and download and watch episodes 1-9. You have until Monday to catch up. [...]
Keyboard
Cleaned my keyboard this afternoon. This was long overdue, actually; the damn thing was filthy. It now startles me with its cleanness every time I look down at it. I must admit, even now it isn’t completely spotless, and several of the keys are stained and discoloured, which I don’t think there’s anything I can [...]
Beard growth experiment concluded
Back last summer, I decided that I would experiment with my facial hair. Every time previously I had increased the amount of hair I had on my face, it was an improvement. This was probably due to the fact that the more hair I grew, the more of my face was concealed, which could only [...]
Injury, Painting and Wave Serpents
On Wednesday night, I was cleaning up some models with a scalpel, and I got up to get some more from out of the box. I’m still not sure how, but somehow the scalpel slipped out of my hand and fell through the second toe of my right foot. I use the word ‘through’ quite [...]