Archive for August, 2009

Not upgrading is great

August 31st, 2009 Apple, Short

According to the SL compatibility wiki CS1 works fine, but 2 & 3 are a bit dodgy. (I haven’t upgraded yet, waiting for the Siracusa review)

Things to buy

August 28th, 2009 Random

From my eBay Auctions

  • Football Manager 2009 sold
  • Wii Games
    • SSX Blur sold
    • Excite Truck sold
    • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 sold
    • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess sold before I had a chance to post this
    • Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 sold
    • Resident Evil 4 Edition sold
  • My NeXT Stuff sold

From the Apple Store

Snow Leopard

From my Amazon affiliate links*

The new Muse album

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Football Manager 2010

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and the new Dawkins book

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* thanks to the random internet person who clicked a link on dogtanian.net and brought £200+ worth of stuff, you just brought me FM 2010

Waffle

August 20th, 2009 Internet

A comment from the AV Club’s comparison of the book/film versions of Let the Right One In (the films excellent)

Wow, it’s really easy to be a belligerent cuntwaffle online, isn’t it?
No wonder so many do it.

Would the theory be better with that phrasing?

Some random sporting bits

August 19th, 2009 Cricket, Football

Cricket

Hampshire were fucking dire at Basingstoke last week, I stormed1 out before the end. But on the plus side we’ve signed Ajantha Mendis for next season, with Tahir coming back for 2011. If he gets a chance to play most of the season that could be very good.

In the Ashes England should’ve gone for
Strauss
Cook
Trott
Collingwood
Prior
Flntoff
Rashid
Broad
Swann
Anderson
Onions
The 4 all-rounders give you some batting quality, but it looks like a typical Oval pitch and we’ve got to get 20 wickets so the 4 seamers and 2 spinners should cover than. And we really want to avoid a situation where we’re batting towards a declaration, ’cause we tend to be shit at that.

Football

A great start for Arsenal, all this bollocks about finishing below City will look really stupid when we win the title this year.

But I won’t look stupid when I win the fantasy football this year. I’ll look stupid when I don’t.

1 well, ambled

Why so socialist?

August 5th, 2009 Random, Short

…is what these posters should’ve said but right-wingers aren’t even as funny as me, and that’s setting the bar pretty low.

Edit: a google shows lots of other people had this idea, hardly surprising, but makes the creators of the poster look even less witty.

This headline is useless without pics

August 4th, 2009 Random, Short

Firefighters free upside-down cow

Very nerdy

August 3rd, 2009 Science

A bunch of lectures by Richard Feynman. Nice of Billy to put them online, shame it’s streaming, using silverlight. Be much nicer to download some .mp4s