Saturday 20 February 2010

Last one alive, lock the door!

"Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak. He's unsure of himself. He's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."
-Bill
; Kill Bill Volume 2

Sooo...
How's it going? Good?Best supervillain. Prometheus; managed to very nearly defeat the entire JLA, including Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, MM, Steel and Zauriel. Not bad, eh?

It's the climax of the week, a week where I attempted to do a numerous amount of things but failed at. Story of my life, really.

Man, i've been having WEIRD dreams lately. Just really, really odd. Probably due to sleeping in late. Hurm.

Ooh here's a story. Enjoy.
Answer, by Fredric Brown

Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

Sunday 31 January 2010

Are you not entertained?!

Hm. Well, there we have it. I'm blogging again! Just a way out of Maths, really.

Went Laser Quest yesterday. Suffice to say, it was full of lulzing and fun. Especially since we were up against a group of 10-year olds. Savage ten year olds, though. I think I successfully mangaed to fulfill my obligatory string of warfare yells during it though.Obligatory How I Met Your Mother picture done.

YARRR MATHS. I found a lego pirate medallion, it is THE shizz ;D

Err what else. Oh yes, i recently was given a Bonsai tree :) its awesome

Magazine is going good! We've recently got an influx of new people, which is always good. I'm considering writing a page/s on some card game rules? May be good.

Toodleoo for now

Saturday 16 January 2010

"Pour it on!"

"Okay, we're dying with our boots on, people..and we're dying standing up! NOT IN OUR HOUSE! Not today! POUR IT ON!" - Guy Gardener, Green Lantern

Anyway, it's an update. An update?! Remarkable.

Tum ti tum..updates; Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy is possibly the best adventure story i've read. It's brilliant. You should go read it. Now!

TV is gaining a semblance of good again! Heroes is back on TV, with a new character that I really like (Edgar, for anyone who cares). He uses two Kukris and is really, really fast. Also, british accent woo

Also, How I Met Your Mother is back on E4. I choose to ignore the fact that we get these SO FAR BEHIND the proper ones, but I don't care. More Neil Patrick Harris is just awesome.
Suit up!
Yeah so thats that. Erm...I got a harmonica! That's pretty awesome. I'm currently learning how to play this awesome Legend of Zelda song that some might recognize:


Regardless. That's me for now folks

Friday 18 December 2009

dear god an update?!

Le gasp! I haven't updated in like a month, but just shows you how boring my life is. I'm pretty much the same guy I was a month ago, so there you are.

Also, I want my Spaced dvd's to arrive :/

And I made this!

Monday 2 November 2009

"What does that make us?" "Big damn heroes, sir!"



The future.

My thoughts on what the future would hold. As in, when i'm grown up, what advances would the world have made technologically? What fantastic new things would be there?

I'd like to hope that we engage and grow as a species. That we manage to transcend the atmosphere and explore the universe. Yes, I'd love to be an astronaut; but I know it's not going to happen. I'm not nearly clever/fit/rich enough for that to happen. But to be part of constructing something like that, assisting in flight? Dream come true.

As you can tell, i'm enthusiastic about space. The idea attracts me so much; the endless depths, the uncharted territory of the universe. We could find millions of different species, minerals, sights. Ever since I was small, I loved adventure. Loved the sense of exploring a new place, loved the thrill of seeing new sights. Utterly great.

New planets also intruige me. I'd love to get a comet/planet named after me, to stay there for eternity. My life goal, that'll never ever be accomplished? First Man on Titan (largest Moon of Jupiter). I can always dream :)

Different types of propulsion also interest me; replacing inefficient combustion engines in cars and shuttles nowadays with more simple ideas - creating a small vaccum to propel it? Possibly. Pioneering companies also try and tackle this in innovitive new ways - Honda, Volkswagon and Microsoft all work towards this goal.

Ah well. Enough rambling. I've got a cracking idea for an article that just occured to me, so I might go and write a bit of that up ;). Will probably involve a lot of questioning, could be interesting. So if you're reading this chances are i'll ask you :).

Toodles for now!

Sunday 1 November 2009

Funny stuff

Particle Physics t-shirt @ SplitReason.com
Particle Physics t-shirt design @ © SplitReason.com

I just saw this on a t-shirt. MUST HAVE.
That is all for now.

Sunday 25 October 2009

Review time: Scribblenauts!

Ahoy hoy! I've not been around on here for a while, so I thought i'd might as well add a new arrow to my quiver, metaphorically speaking: a new review!

Scribblenauts

Scribblenauts is a game for the Nintendo DS, and gives a simple yet challenging premise: "Write Anything. Solve Everything" This is broadly true.

The game's main attraction is it's ability to summon up any kind of object you can think of so long as it's not Trademarked, a person's Name or a specific Place Name. And that's it. Go nuts.

Example: You're in an aquatic zone. To swim underwater, you can summon up a scuba diving tank, or you can summon up a submarine, or you can summon up a bubble of air. Enemies trying to kill you? Poof; summon up God to kick thier asses. Then, equip God with a Top hat and chainsaw to fight against a Kraken. It goes on and on.

There is a proper adventure mode, as in a series of challenges that test your skill, style and speed in trying to get the Starite. To quote Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, "It is ALWAYS Stars". For example, you want to get the star down from the tree. How could you do that? There are numerous ways of achieving the goal!
1) Summon an axe and chop the tree down
2) Summon a lumberjack to chop it down
3) Summon a ball to throw at it to knock it down
4) Summon up a beaver to gnaw down the tree
5) Summon a ladder to climb up and get it
6) Summon a jetpack to fly onto it
7) Summon a policeman and throw a doughnut up thier, and watch him scramble up to get them
8) Summon a time machine, go back to the past, ride a dinosaur, go back to the present, knock over the tree with your dinosaur

And so on and so forth. Despite the lack of trademarked things, you still have a huge array of things to summon (22,000 words iirc). So unfortunatley, no summoning Lightsabers or Davy Jones.A complaint I do have, though, is that you cannot summon up any sorts of alcohol. They let you play with rifles, bombs, napalm, nukes, swords, but draw the line at alcohol? Fairly random.

Anyhoo, a good play nonetheless. 8/10, I'd say.
Any ideas for a next review people? Can be a book, a game, a film, a TV series etc etc. Ta!