Top ten list of things that shit me this year*: Game journalists with no sense of gaming history. People who bitch, moan and complain about the price of iPhone apps. “Good Samaritan” drivers who cause traffic jams by letting someone without right of way cross/pass/in. Being given advice on a subject by someone who hasn’t […]
Category: Rants
Take your time, hurry up.
Social Networking In Canberra – an opinion and nothing more*. I live in Australia’s least liked Capital City. Sydney hates us because it wants to be the Capital, Melbourne hates us because The Daily Rag says so (maybe, I don’t read the papers, but Crikey doesn’t seem to mind us that much). One of the things […]
An underwater guy who controlled the sea.
So, LucasArts have revamped, re-animated, re-scored and voiced a new version of the classic The Secret of Monkey Island. And you can get it for Xbox 360, Windows or the iPhone. I went with the iPhone path, because, hell, a point’n’click adventure makes more sense with a touch-screen than a gamepad, right? Alas, whilst the […]
This one act of consecration is what I ask of you.
Things I am currently hating on, a list: Advertisements that state “overseas model”. If you want to sell your phone/car/dildo here, either make the ad here or sell us a non-crippled model. I am going to start boycotting all brands that do this. @swear_bot on twitter. Vodafone Australia and their inability to make Visual Voicemail […]
I Can See You, Can You See Me?
Aposematism is about, and I am nicking this from Wikipedia, the warning markings that bumblebees and the like have. So, because of this, we associate certain colours (black, yellow and orange) in a particular way and it gets used on all sorts of warning signs to try and keep us safe from harm. So, this […]
This is what the world is for.
A friend online acquaintance I met through a friend who I met via a website that is a figment of my imagination asked if she should go see MGMT when they tour where she is. I said no. Now, this online acquaintance is a very pretty young thing.  A wonderful, youthful spring flower of a bud of a […]
But it’s not very clear.
Here is the thing, I am all for fashion. I am also a complete brand whore. But even I have to draw the line somewhere. Normally when I get my line drawing pen out, it’s sour grapes over the latest “in” fashion not being aimed at an old man like me, or a line of […]
We’re watching the world pass us by.
Dear Gods, I am shallow. And highly self-interested. Know why? When the world is falling apart and burning down around us, I allow myself to get upset about the cancellation of a car that hadn’t even been officially announced. So, good bye what might have been the next Nissan Silvia, good bye. The boys in […]
And I swear to you that I would never feed you pain.
Hey, remember I posted that thing about Australia’s Most Interesting People Who Use Twitter To Be Interesting With? Well, turns out I might have been wrong about thinking they weren’t very interesting. I mean, now I know that Chris Cornell just had shrimp, I don’t think I will find anything interesting ever again. Thank you, […]
A moment that is frozen as we hang in time.
@twitterusers omg have u seen this article on News? http://tr.im/e2o2 i wish i was boring enough to be considered interesting.