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April 17 Looking for Attractive Linux Media PlayerI need a good media player for Linux. But there's so many, and so many of them are so poor... If I use a media player, it's important that it complies with the following:
The list goes on but they're the ones I can think of now. Contenders are:
Suggestions, please. April 15 EU Makes Me HappyThe European Parliament has decided that illegal file sharers shouldn't be criminalised, as long as they don't profit from it.
I hope that means profit as in make money. Otherwise it could be interpreted as meaning any kind of profit, as in, getting anything useful out of download stuff... such as free movies. But I think it's money they mean.
Anyway, this all comes as the latest development in the War On Piracy. As you may know, one of America's newest on-going wars is against copyright theft, and right on the front line is the IFPI - the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. That's PHONOgraphic, so stop giggling. The IFPI is totally uncool. Fortunately, their bark is much worse than their might so far they've failed repeatedly to stop piracy and if anything, they've encouraged it further.
The music industry's current objective is to force ISPs (internet service providers, who you pay for internet access, like Tiscali or BT) to monitor people's internet usage, and employ a "Three Strikes" policy, where if someone is caught illegally downloading three times, they are banned from the internet.
That's exactly the kind of nonsense I've come to expect from the music industry. If you stop people downloading from the internet, they'll just go back to buying pirate DVDs on the black market. Apparently that funds terrorism. And every time you buy a pirate DVD, North Korea plants a nuclear missle with your name on it. It's true.
Anyway... needless to say, the IFPI are being arsey about the whole thing. Stupid IFPI. March 24 People are dumbAs I often say, the majority of the people on this earth are utterly, and undeniably, dumb. I'm sick of seeing news reports detailing the results of yet another survey, that reveals to the shocked masses that they are indeed retarded. I know they are. Why are you telling me? Grammatical errors are something that makes me quite angry. Now, I know that my grammar is hardly perfect. I make constant mistakes, I know that - my spelling is poor too, but at least I'm not too far off the mark. In terms of the world at large however, well, if perfection was the centre of a dartboard, there wouldn't be much left of the wall around it. Apostrophes are seen as treats, you know, like ice cream or rented movies. People put one in now and then to add a bit of variety to their lives. It doesn't matter where, seemingly, as long as there is an 'S' somewhere nearby. The following may serve as examples of the correct usage.
Something that amazed me just now was on Call of Duty 4. Autobalance dumped me on the other team. When I chose my team, I had my reasons. None of them were that this team was any better or worse than the other. I just happen to like the team I chose. I always choose the same one, I'm used to being on that team. But autobalance moved me. And from then on I was useless, because I kept geting confused as to which bloody side I was on. My reflexes were no good, being trained based on the other team. Which got me thinking. What is the bloody point in autobalance? For God's sake, one team is ALWAYS going to be better than the other. Swapping a few people around won't help. It just pisses people off. Most of the time you'll have odd numbers on the teams but nobody whose opinion counts should care. When it's a 64 slot server, you can afford uneven teams. Nobody really gives a damn which team wins. You don't get anything out of it, it's not like an RPG where you get something of use to you in the future. OK, so on ranked servers you can level up and unlock better weapons and stuff, but I don't play on a ranked server. All you get on this one is a level that applies only to this specific server, and rewards you with precisely fuck all. So if there's no benefit to being on the winning team, does it fucking matter if one team always wins? Let's be realistic. The winning team is not comprised soley of a well organised unit of gung-ho action figure types. They just happen to have got a higher score. The other team, contrary to what must be a popular and well established belief system by now, does in fact, not suck. They get kills. Perhaps not as many, but as I said, who cares? Team deathmatches are similar to a free-for-all, where everybody is on their own team, racking up kills in competition with everybody else in the game. The difference is that in a Team Deathmatch, you don't die every few seconds, which is what sucks about free-for-alls. Team Deathmatches are necessary for big, 64 player games. I'd say you could only really have 20 people in a free-for-all before it became crap. So what does this all mean? Answer: In a Team Deathmatch, everybody plays for themselves, their allegiance to their team is purely superficial, and they consider themselves as much in competition with members of their own team as the enemy team. Therefore Autobalance has no value! Another thing that pisses me off is Spawn Protection. Not a feature of the original game, spawn protection is added with a mod running on the server. It causes players to be invincible for a short time after spawning, to prevent them from falling foul of spawn killing - where a player dies instantly after spawning, without being given a chance to avoid their untimely (but probably deserved) demise. Unfortunately, that invincibility lasts a little too long - and when you add in the fact that on the kind of crap, five minute maps that have flooded the scene of late, players of both teams spawn randomly across the map, you have a problem. That is, players finding themselves confronted by the enemy, who has just popped into existance in front of them. And when they shoot, nothing happens, the enemy just keeps on living. Oh, and shooting back fearlessly. Yes, congratulations modders, you have just given every player in the game god mode! And what do you have to do to achieve immortality? Die of course! It all adds up. What you get on the right hand side of the equals sign however is a big steaming, stinking pile of n00b. Idiots. Another thing people can't do is tell the difference between a turtle and a tortoise. They may look similar to you idiots, but for God's sake, one has flippers the other has feet. I wonder, where do SEA TURTLES come from? Mebe... mebe from the sea? And tortoises, they are not turtles. And only one of the two live in the sea. So by some raw and undoubtable logic, I can only assume that tortoises are the kind that live on the land. I don't need to think about it though, I just KNOW they are different, and which is which. It's not a hard thing to remember. So when I see a nursery for children, that claims to be "Turtles Children's Nursery" I think I have a right to see it backed up by a picture of a fucking turtle. But you know what? I only saw the roadsign for it today, I didn't see its billboard style sign out front with shitty childrens style writing which is, by law, using Comic Sans which looks fuck all like children's writing. I know it will use Comic Sans. And I KNOW they don't have a picture of a turtle, because I just KNOW it's a picture of a fucking tortoise. It has to be. Anybody as fucking stupid as that, would have a tortoise. Straight from microsoft's basic clip art. Because original logos are so fucking hard to make. And there will be just fucking one. On his fucking own. And yet, it's "Turtles" nursery. That's plural, there should be more than one turtle. Or the nursery should be for turtles, or mebe they just mean the nursery is owned by a turtle, and haven't bothered to put the apostrophe in place? See that? That's me being angry for something I have imagined they have done. But I know I'm right. Just to make sure, I checked, the only clip art images of turtles are especially shit. The tortoise ones aren't much better but they don't suck quite as much. I could keep going, I really could. December 17 Christmas ApproachesChristmas is of course approaching. It marches onward like a big... red... commericial juggonaut... No wait, that whole similie is too appropriate. It ruined itself. Why? Because christmas IS a big, red, commercial juggonaut. It's right there in the Always Coca Cola advert, you know the one, with the lorries and all. And coca cola invented father christmas and he's what caused the end of going to church and the beginning of Jewish people participating whilst avoiding confused looks from Christians. And until I see that commercial on TV, it's not christmas, in my opinion. Whatever, all this proves is that Coca Cola's advertising strategy has aroused some sort of deep assosciation in my subconcious. What I was actually going to blog about is how for the first time in years I'm actually looking forward to christmas this time. Obviously it's the first time in years. I couldn't say "the first time in days" now could I. But anyway, I actually want it to be christmas now - whereas in 2004, 2005 and 2006 I was quite put out that it had to happen. All the gift giving was the first problem. Personally I don't like mandatory gifts. I think gifts should be made on a random impulse of generosity, but I guess the number of people that applies to is severely limited. Add to that the fact that 90% of the population are mentally incapable of a random impulse of anything more sophisticated than "get food" and "go to sleep now". So we have to have calendar days that are specifically FOR giving gifts. We have conventions to determine what to buy each other, and how to dispose of said gifts. No, if everybody was like me, we wouldn't give gifts at christmas. We'd just randomly give eachother stuff whenever it felt right to do so, with no regard to the relative value. Then it really would be the thought that counts, because if there was no thought, there'd be no gift. At the moment it's the date that counts. Which brings me to the problem I had in recent years: no actual desire to buy anything for certain people I was expected to buy for. That problem needs no further explanation. As I'm sure you'll agree. Another problem is the being with family bit. At christmas, people who are related are expected to spend time together. And that's fine but it doesn't need to be all day surely? And then there's the inevitable boredom. I mean, some people have hilarious uncles or grandparents with mansions full of giant TVs and stuff. But not everybody, for them it's tedious. Then someone has the wise idea to break out a board game. Board games are stupid relics of a simpler (darker) time. In computer and video games, there's winners and losers still. But crucially, there's often "winners" - plural. Only some of the players are losers. And even then, in computer games, it's the taking part that counts! Which is ironic in that that's a phrase usually assosciated with traditonal games, but it's completely innapropriate for them. In computer games, playing the game is where you get the fun. In board games, you have to roll dice and exchange fake money, which let's face it, isn't as fun as it looks in TV commercials. The fun part is when you win and are able to gloat to the losers. But only one person wins! And the only fun they get is at the expense of the other players. Anyway, despite the arguments I make against christmas, I think this year it will be better. *waves hand dismissively* I hope you weren't expecting something of substance from my meagre blog. Tata! and Merry Christmas! Last year I said humbug repeatedly! (seriously :|.) November 29 What's the difference between the retail and OEM editions of Vista?From a post I made on PCFormat's forum: Essentially, the box. But bear in mind, the vista box is quite cool, even if they did rip off the Nero 7 box... Anyway, there is a more subtle difference, that's the license and therefore, activation. The OEM license differs to the retail license in that the OEM software should only be sold with hardware. It's intended for companies like Dell that build complete computer systems for sale to ordinary consumers, OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer I believe. Companies like that don't have the time or need to be opening fancy boxes all day. And by pre-installing vista and forcing consumers to pay for it, they're keeping Microsoft as the market leader. So microsoft makes it cheap for them. Also, OEM software means that the Dell-like company is responsible for picking up the phone when the consumer claims their internets have been deleted by a virus from MSN, not Microsoft. You get no support from microsoft with OEM software. The retail version is intended for consumers. The fancy box is to make them want to buy it. The pretty manual is so they can install it easily. But it's expensive, because it's going direct to consumers. You also get support from microsoft - you pay for that too. But for what it's actually WORTH... So by buying the OEM edition, you're essentially saying: "I work in the industry, professionally building computers for others, I know what I'm doing and don't need you to convince me I want vista." Now, provided you know what you're doing, that's fine. The other, more important (to you) issue is activation. Vista will work for 30 days without activation, but then you have to activate or it will lock up, giving you access only to the internet for brief periods - to buy vista, since you're obviously a nasty pirate. Not a lost and frustrated customer. The first time you activate the OEM software, it will work. But if you have to reinstall, it won't. Makes no sense, I know. But microsoft really messed up the whole system. Fortunately, The Phone Method allows you activate it via microsoft's phone activation without any cracks or anything - but you can't use the automated phone system because that will fail. You have to talk to a customer service rep. Basically, Microsoft assumes that since that copy of vista has been activated before, it must have been installed on another computer. And that's not allowed under the terms of the OEM license. Of course, there's no law against you installing it twice on the same computer, in case it goes wrong for some reason. But Microsoft didn't think about that. So even if you do format and reinstall it, it won't activate. If you look out the window quick, you might catch a glimpse of your consumer rights as they float away. The retail license is different. As far as I know, you can activate it as many times as you like - Microsoft tried to limit it, but gave in to pressure. So I don't see why you couldn't install the retail copy on more than one computer, theoretically. Yes, I know - the whole reasoning behind activation, nonsense. It fails completely. But what can you do? So, it comes to whether you're going to be reinstalling it constantly.  September 03 Don't askWhy? Why do you people bother to ask for my opinion, then blatantly disregard it?
I'm sick of people asking me if they should buy some shitty piece of hardware, then getting all defensive or just not caring when I say not to.
If I say don't buy it, that should be enough. By asking me you're admitting that I know more about it than you, and want me to make the decision. So if I say don't buy it, you should just not buy it. But ok, you wan to know why. I guess that's ok, if you want to know why so that you don't need to ask me next time. Saves me hassle, makes the world a smarter place.
So I explain why not to buy a GeForce 7300 (for example, I'm not picking on anyone in particular, this is just a common one). I explain that the 7 doesn't earn it the right to be a GeForce 7. I explain that all it actually does is display the Windows Vista Aero desktop nicely. And that gaming on it is like trying to cook a steak on a radiator. And for the most part, you all agree with me.
Then, after we've been through how the stupid thing you chose to buy is below junk. And how you're not a bad person because you selected it, just not a very smart one. And why. After that... you buy it anyway.
And some of you think that if I don't find out, you'll somehow get away with it..? Like I'm some evil force that takes good products and makes them bad JUST because you suggested them.
Come on. You're dumb. The thing you want to buy is shit. You don't know what you're doing. I do. It's very kind of me to tell you not to buy it, to explain why, and to suggest an optimal alternative. So why do you repay me by disregarding my opinion? For god's sake why?
And the secrecy?! WTH? REALLY?! WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT?
"oh... I better not tell him... he told me not to buy it, nobody tell him I did." nice move fucktard. Not only do I always find out, but often it's because you told me because you can't even keep your own stupid secret. You take the same attitude as if you're quitting the job you've been at for years, and I'm your boss who's always been kind to you.
Then it gets worse. Because then comes the other shit. Yeah, the worse shit.
Could go a number of ways.
1. You're so fucking dumb that you actually think it's good. You think the graphics are better - even though you've got the game's settings all at their lowest, and your resolution is 800x600. Then you have the nerve to show me, and expect me to NOT ONLY be impressed, but also to somehow admit that I was wrong.
Of course, that's not how it goes down. How it goes down is that I point out what's wrong with it. Every last thing. And I say it in such a way as to make you so disappointed and feel so stupid, that even I question the morality of what I'm doing. But only until I realise how I'm the smart one here and you're the dipshit that's riding a wave of stupidity all the way to the magical land of Sony mp3 players and QVC.
2. It doesn't work and you expect me to do something about it. You've bought your Gateway computer and now it won't even boot. Rather than calling the manufacturer you called me, because you associate the decision to buy it with me, and assume I have a duty to fix it. I guess because you've mentally glossed over my opposal to the purchase.
So I tell you it's going to be expensive. Because I'm going to take out half of the components and replace them with the ones I said I'd use if you let me build you one. There goes the warranty you paid an extra £300 for (why the fuck did you do that and then call me anyway?).
3. It doesn't work and you make do. You're so talented at behaving irrationally and clearing your mind of logical thought that you find ways around every problem you encounter. Stupid ways. The computer takes over 10 minutes to shut down so you just unplug it every time you want to turn it off. It takes 20 minutes to start up so you turn it on and then go and do something else... Things like that. Yeah.
Eventually it stops working entirely, but when I come round (you offer money) I just tell you to find a length of rope, use it to tie yourself to the machine, then throw it off of a high building. You picked your perfect partner, you fucktard.
4. You feel I wasn't strong enough in my argument against it. You assume that I wasn't telling you everything, and if I had, you wouldn't have wasted your money. I'm the bad guy here, as far as you're concerned and you're so angry that you're going to disregard all reason in your struggle to prove that I'm a fraud, and that I know nothing.
Nobody fucking cares about what you have to say.
There's others. Of course. You psychotards aren't exactly unpredictable but you are pretty good at thinking up new ways to achieve the same result.
No I'm not going to ever accept that you chose not to do as I said. No, I wasn't wrong. No, it's not nice to have the most expensive one sometimes. No, there's nothing rewarding about getting the one in a nice box. No you don't have any experience in this area. And no, you can't convince me to see it your way. July 06 SpawnkillI name thee... "Spawnkill". Because I couldn't be bothered to think up a proper title. Like roadkill? No? Forget it. It doesn't even matter.  I bet they do respawn you know. In fact, I know where the local spawnpoint is; in the kitchen - under the sink. I could probably make a joke using "Raid", seeing as it's a word used both in MMORPGs and as the name of a pest killer. But I'm not going to. I'm feeling very lazy... July 02 El KanyeOk, second one in two days. It's going well.
This one's titled "El Kanye". As in Kanye West - click here if you don't get it.
July 01 Research Monkey 29 (it begins)Well at last I have begun the webcomic I was always destined to make. It's going to be a marvellous journey through tedious wit and dry humour.
K, the first strip is titled "Research Monkey 29". It's not really very good, but then, Wulffmorgenthaler is rarely that funny but I still check it every day. I guess/hope that webcomics don't need to be any good. It's drawn well though right? Mmm, vectorlicious.
April 14 SPAMMMMWhat is it about these god damn scam-spam emails? I mean, who honestly thinks they’re going to somehow make money of it?
It would make me physically sick if I ever had a thought that led to me wondering if annoying everybody on the planet would make them want to buy some piece of crap from me, aside from goods or services that would lead to my (un-?)timely demise.
It’s not even like they’re trying to sell me things I want. They might have a chance of catching my attention if they were selling “Discount Hardware!” or “Free MMO for make good free time!!”
But no, they’re trying to sell me dodgy pharmaceuticals and Nigerian gold. Does Nigeria have gold to spare?
Can a tablet I’ve never heard of solve all my problems, whilst maintaining the same ingredients as horse manure? Not unless I need to make a scale model of a stable prior to it being mucked out in order to win the title of God.
And then there’s the ones enquiring about my recent application for a mortgage or loan. What is the idea behind those? Are they hoping I’ve just applied for a loan or mortgage and have forgotten what company I applied to? Am I expected to click one of their inappropriate looking links? Why? And how will that help them?
Unless they’re going to spend the next four hours giggling in the corner because they wasted my time/got my hopes up (ooo Loans!), I don’t see how it was worthwhile.
Yes, I know they have “zombie” computers to send the spam, but the damn things were designed and written by some loser.
Sometimes when I’m on Skype, I’ll get a random loser trying to offer me a PS3 or something. You know what I do sometimes? I spam them back. Set up a macro on my Logitech G11. Press the button over and over. See how they like it. One once said to me (after I stopped) “fool big fool”. Which I found most satisfying.
Arses like that are part of what’s wrong with the internet. If they want to break the law, they could just download music illegally… that only pisses off the RIAA and the BPI. And they deserve it. April 04 EasterEaster is about when Jesus died but then rose from the dead.
So... there's zombie films on TV. I guess that figures. March 11 How to make any software trial last foreverPLEASE NOTE: WHAT FOLLOWS IS NOT A GUIDE TO USING PIRATE SOFTWARE. I DO NOT CONDONE OR ENTHUSE THE USE OF PIRATE COPIES. IT IS PURELY A THEORETICAL INSIGHT, AND ONLY PROPOSES COPYRIGHT CIRCUMVENTIONS FOR ACADEMIC INTEREST. IF YOU ARE, OR REPRESENT THE OWNER OF ANY SOFTWARE PRODUCT MENTIONED IN THIS POST AND WISH TO HAVE YOUR SOFTWARE'S NAME AND ANY ASSOSCIATION REMOVED, PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY BY EMAIL; ON SIRRONTHEMIGHTY@GMAIL.COM.
Ok, so the Shareware model is probably something you're familiar with, even if you didn't know what it was until now. It's essentially just, give out 30 day trials or restricted versions of your software for free, and get them everywhere - Download.com, Major Geeks, etc. Hopefully, people will find them useful and want to pay you for an unlock code. This will probably be in the form of a serial number, or CD Key.
Now, from the point of view of the average user, this was quite a cool way to work, because often they only needed the software once and could avoid having to pay for software they'll never need again.
Then people realised you could hand out a legitimately bought serial and everyone could unlock for free.
Then people started making keygens to make new serials from nothing, for free.
THEN, after a few years of that, software developers got wise and invented Activation. Activation is just a way of ensuring only one person is using an individual serial, and usually checks that that serial was provided by the software developer, not an unofficial keygen.
Oddly, early activation used... another serial. So crackers made keygens that took a serial, and made an activation code to go with it. Job done.
But the latest activation - used noteably by Microsoft for their new Windows Vista and Office 2007 products is smarter, and as yet, no-one has found a reliable way to get around it. Closest they've got is a fake activation website, a brute forcer that turned out to be a hoax, and a "frankenbuild" that uses activation components from a Beta, and will cease to function in June.
If Vista won't activate, and you have a legitmate copy, or if you have an OEM copy and want to transfer it to another computer (which isn't allowed really), you can simply call Microsoft. That's right, with the phone, call microsoft. Their staff for the Activation system are very helpful and don't ask many questions, so you just:
This definitely works for Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Edition. Use of a "pirate" serial, with enterprise edition Trial which you can get from the MS website, allows the user to active by phone. I tried this in a... dream... and it worked marvelously. I of course, did not really try it because that would be illegal. Enterpise Edition costs like $600 or something... I dunno dollars... Legitimate keys look like: V9MTG-3GX8P-D3Y4R-68BQ8-4Q8VD (although that's one I made up after looking at a real one... so don't try to use it - that would be illegal anyway.) Install it with no internet connection, or the option to activate by phone will be greyed out. I suspect you could get a pirate copy of Vista like that. By just asking for an activation key. Remember though, the activation key is different to the Product Key - however, I don't think they're linked. So in theory, the whole world could use the same Product Key, with different activation keys from the call centre. I say that because they didn't ask me for anything on the phone when I had to use this method to reactivate my copy of Vista - despite it being on the same computer. So... if they didn't ask for my product key but still gave me a working activation key, surely they work independantly? ^^ But what about software that uses keyfiles and weird registry settings? And all manner of crap? Well, it's my suspicion that you can get away with using a Virtual Machine for them. Incase you're not aware, a Virtual Machine is like a PC emulator to the untrained eye - but really it's not. It's a fake computer, running a separate OS that uses some of your real hardware at the same time as your ordinary operating system, like your CPU, and fake hardware all of its own for things like the graphics card. What I'm getting at, is how you can save their state, copy them, back them up, and restore them with ease. So.. if you keep a copy of them when the software was just installed, 30 days later you can just copy that back over the expired one ^^ right? hehehehe Seriously, I don't see how that could be any cooler. ok, well that's it for now, I might update this now and then SirronTheMighty -- out. February 06 I had an ideaSo anyway, this morning I had an idea.
Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was. Every morning I get up, and while I'm taking a shower an excellent idea suddenly reveals itself to me. But then by the time I've got dressed, I've forgotten what it was.
Pisses me off.
Anyway...
I was planning on banging on about Vista but to be honest there's nothing to report. It took me all of 10 seconds to get completely used to it, but that's probably more to do with the fact that I've been using it on and off since June '06.
My barber asked me the now familiar question "Why is it better than XP?" today and I told him the same thing I told everyone else: that it's the same question everyone's asking. I then explained some of the benefits but I know that he wouldn't appreciate them. This is a problem now, a real problem.
There's so many people that rely on computers for so much, but they lack the necessary skills. It's not enough to be able to use Word! It's really not. We're still a long way off from the day when someone can just sit down and use a pc without any skills beyond familiarity with the application they need. Yes, I know what you're thinking - they do that already. But think of the state their computers are in. Viruses, adware, spyware, messed up registry, pointless shortcuts everywhere, 5 rows of toolbars covered in buttons they don't even recognise let alone need. It's their own fault. Really, say what you like, but you know it's true, of course it's true: crap computers are a result of idiot users. Of course, in the case of badly maintained networks or unprofessionally built rigs this rule doesn't necessarily apply.
But I'm talking about people who bought their computer from PCWorld. Do you know anyone who bought their PC from PCWorld, doesn't know much about computers and still doesn't have a rubbish computer? No. You don't.
People need to either learn more about PCs or just stop using them.
Say what you like. But it's like cars, a driver who doesn't know what the clutch actually is, is a rubbish driver.
Perhaps we need a n00bs-only operating system with no settings or anything - that frequently reminds the user that they are a d0rk. January 07 O blogging, how out of fashion you have becomeRight, 2007.
Worst year ever so far, I mean, seriously shit. Not at all like 1997, which wasn't exactly 1996 but it was much better than 2001 for example. Yeah... it's pretty shit...
But, there are things to look forward to!
Yes friends, it's not going to be all bad. Here follows a short list of things I hope will improve the year enough to make it tolerable. Or at least distract me from the pain.
Thanks for reading, hope you agree with some of the stuff in there, and I hope it gives you something to look forward to. When 2007 throws its shit at you like a deranged and angry monkey, just remember some of that sweet, sweet false-joy that a HD DVD player could bring... December 17 Christmas is, well, here. Still.As it has been since the third month ending in "ber".
Anyway, as usual, I'm not all excited. Not really even slightly pleased. It's amazing how excited kids get at Christmas. I'd like to be, but I'm a miserable sod. Anyway, one thing I do enjoy about christmas is how people act so stupidly - and spend money on tat. A lot of money. It's the only time of the year that people act quite so retarded, except possibly for comic relief or - something equally suspicious.
Anyway, today I saw something hilarious; see the picture at the end of this post. The jewellery store I passed in Telf... let's not reveal that... the store I passed, had something that caught my eye - a nativity set. But this was no ordinary nativity set, this was made of china. Or porcelin or something. And despite it being obviously the cheapest possible crap available, it was priced at an extortionate amount.
The Baby Jesus, which you can see in my picture? £85! And he's the size of a large toad, in a soap dish - or a small ashtray. And no, he's not gold or silver, he's just your bog basic china Jesus.
I mean yeah, if you look at his arms he's like "Yo! What's happ'nin'?!"... but if I want something that does that I'll just buy a subscription to sky, at least that way I can turn over if the sitcoms start to grate on me. (which they instantly would)
hehe, guess how much Balthazar was. Almost £400. And he was to the same scale, and not made any better. And he's not even a major character!
I also saw a van whose decals annoyed me. The signwriter was clearly illiterate - "sumo's" is not the plural of "sumo". It's "sumos" you frickin idiot. And on the back... oh don't get me started... took me 10 minutes to finish talking about all the mistakes on there.
I watched Home Alone 2 this afternoon, which is a wonderfully christmasy film, filled with hilarious amounts of excruiating (thank you Lorna) pain. I hope at least one channel shows:
September 03 To all of you that never read any of thisIt it with the deepest of displeasures that I inform you of my current state; partially insane.
I seem to have become a tad afflicted with the old lunacy. A bit orangey-green around the gills. Two dismembered limb-neclaces short of a psychpath.
This is because my rig, to whom I have been happily married (on and off) since late 2004, has decided to end our ordinarily agreeable relationship, by refusing to obey the laws of physics and instead flirting with the mathematically recognised phenomenon known as chaos.
It is also because nothing else seems to be interested in behaving either, like my new lamp which some silly Swedish sod thought would look great ya, if it hung from the ceiling so bloody low, that a very short hobbit could stub his toes on it. Even if he was two floors down.
I just hope (for all of your sakes) that my luck changes or I suppose I'll have to go find a chainsaw. Thanks for being nice to me everybody, anyway. I prefer you to these machines right now. Adieu. August 20 Sorry VistaMy afections have now fallen under the sway of Guild Wars, sorry Vista, maybe we can just be friends instead?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not officially Pimping Guild Wars, hell no, I'm still pimping Ubuntu dapper drake. Speaking of drakes... Guild Wars has them!
But they don't appear to be a miraculous blend of ease of use, complete customisability, and lack of any form of legal restriction on usage or price - hidden or otherwise. Personal food consumtion recordYesterday I beat my personal record for the most food eaten in a non-all you can eat situation at Pizza Hut.
I ate:
in one meal. And I was hungry still after despite the fact that my breathing was being inhinited by my stomach's invasion of the space usually used by my lungs. August 06 Token Real Blog EntryToday SirronTheMighty:
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