Supergrunch

So I found the blog that uploaded this... I think some of you might be amused by the background picture. I also found this little bit of head-in-sandedness: To be fair, I think the magic is considered to be heretical because only God has the authority or whatever to have magic, and so attempting to work magic yourself is going against his will. Edit: Hah, just realised the blog is an intentional parody, what a good case of Poe's law.

£16.99, down from £49.99... for the next 7 hours or so.

Steam sale: And RPG Maker VX Ace for a semi-RPG project I've been planning for a while and might actually do now...

I think there's something you need to learn about Magnus...

What can I say but whoosh?

It wasn't supposed to be an insult, more of a (bad) joke - it just logically follows if everyone is a foreigner.

Maybe he's just a misanthrope.

Thanks people. Well, probably in a while, yes. For now though, I feel pretty rubbish, but oh well. I thought you'd already made your intentions quite clear on irc.

Just moved this over to general gaming discussion, which seems more appropriate.

So, my four year relationship has just ended. I still don't really know what to think about that. (on the plus side, does this mean I can start going out and telling girls I run the world's largest Pokémon website?)

Boys will be boys.

If you haven't heard of it, this is a miniaturised computer about the size of a credit card that's been designed with the express purpose of teaching kids to code for an (extremely!) minimal price - around £25 depending on where you get it. It's set up to boot Debian from an sd card, and has the following specs (which are in more detail on Wikipedia): Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip CPU: 700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S core (ARM11 family) GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV, OpenGL ES 2.0, 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder Memory (SDRAM): 256 Megabytes (shared with GPU) The trial/developer's version went on general sale last Wednesday, as covered in this BBC article, and sold out pretty much instantly. I heard about this when it was in development last summer, and thought it was just about the most awesome idea ever. When I heard just now that a version was on sale, I ordered it instantly, pretty much for my own geeky satisfaction... I must be even more of a geek than I thought, I never impulse-buy. And it'll probably be a long wait until the stock gets round to me... Anyway, what do people think?

That book's great, but doesn't contain much actual physics (it's mostly biographical).

The next installment is out:

I read 50 Shades of Grey - it's too hilarious to burn.

Thanks a lot guys! Especially you Magnus. I'm sadly a bit too busy with an impending conference talk to do much, but I did get to recieve and drink some beers, along with steak, so it's all good! And yes, sorry for my speeding train that time Danny, and it'd be good to see you again sometime jay! Although I'm sure that'd disconfirm your flattering assessment of me.

At the weekend, it's just the standard phone, wallet, and keys, although I also have an annoying habit of stuffing receipts in my back pocket so they pile up a bit there. On weekdays, I take a backpack for questing which usually contains: Loads (i.e. several kilos worth) of print-outs of papers, handouts, and other stuff I may need A couple of notebooks Some library books A stapler (currently missing!) An umbrella (occassionally, although I usually just forget and just get wet) blue pens a pencil green and red biros whiteboard markers USB stick earphones reading glasses hand moisturiser in winter, or my hands get horrendously chapped dental floss (because there's nothing more annoying than having something stuck in your teeth and not being able to get it out all day) tissues (especially when I have a cold) Do I win heaviest bag?

So... who else thinks the Doctor's name reveal will show him to be Jesus?

So I had a poke around in the N-europe IRC channel, and it turns out I'm the only person in it now. Which is no good. People should join, chat, and be merry! The channel is #cube-europe on Quakenet. If you don't know what that means and/or don't have an IRC client, you can get to it through your browser by clicking the link under General Chit Chat in the forum list. Or just click here ~ Shorty

So Charlie Brooker's brilliant dark pop culture satire is back for a second series (if you haven't heard of it, see this thread about last year's series, and watch it all now), and it started tonight with Be Right Back, which I've just watched on 4oD. I think with these the best thing to do is to see no spoilers at all and watch it cold, so for now I'll just say that it was awesome, although it'll be interesting to discuss once a few people have seen it. So who else has?