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.

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

"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

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!

"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!

Funny stuff

Particle Physics t-shirt design @ © SplitReason.com

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

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!

Just a quick update

Ahoy to all you folks! Just a little update :)

First up, I'm going to be contributing towards this new-fangled "School magazine" that would be set up online. The meeting we went to was rather good, lots of year 10/11s, only a couple of +16 but they loooked like a good bunch. I'm going to help contribute to a comic, and i'm going to start writing book reviews. Should be teh funz0rz! Also, i've volunteered to be one of a cylce of "Editor-in-chief". Why, you ask? On a CV; "Former Editor-In-Chief". Bad. Ass.

(p.s if you want to contribute an article or w/e annoynmously or named, just message me in some way, and it should be able to get in)

Also, I have a Facebook fanclub of sorts! Kinda crazy, because a friend of mine made it and now it has ~60 people :O :O. Makes me feel warm n fuzzy inside :)
Am loling at other people who have taken the idea for that and tried to make thier own, (including PRESTON (in-joke)).

Watched Derren Brown yesterday. Lol'd fairly much as he failed. Then I realised it -was- a setup. Someone on WikiAnswers had this to say about it;

"This was definately faked (not that I expected it to be real). It's not a secret that you can work out roughly where the ball will land at roulette if you have the right machinery as it said at the beginning or if you are insane at methematics.

It was clearly a set up because you can't just go into a bank and take out £5000 at once without prior permission. I also think it would be illegal for Derren Brown to do so. He probably took nothing out and then Derren Brown made it look like he did. He is an illusionist after all.

I also think the casino was a set up as he has a ban from entering casons and he wasn't in disguise. He was also talking into his sleeve which any guards would spot instantly.

He failed on purpose as getting it right next to the number he thought it was going to be makes it look like the theory pretty much does work but he wouldn't have to give that guy £175000 persoanlly or from the production team (which he would if the casino was fake and he won)

Derren Brown is entertaining but he freely admits everything is a trick and I think in these cases the trick has been on anyone from the audience that believes that what he did was real. "

Anyhoo, ta-ra for now!

Batman!

Well hello there! I haven't blogged in a while, and am thinking about turning this into more of a review/sort of thing, rather then grumblings about my average life.

First up;

BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM

Right, well I have finally got Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PC. After jumping through various hoops such as the f!cking Games for Windows Live crap, I got it to work.

First impressions?

Fucking. Awesome.

Due to the crappiness of my PC's graphics card, I could only play it in less-than-stellar performance, but it didn't matter. The combat is frankly amazing, but can get rather trivial or complex when many things are happening at once. It devolves into a clicking fest quickly but timing moves correctly can be outstanding. The layout of the place is rather well-rendered, and the atmosphere is great. The storyline, although nothing spectacularly groundbreaking, is to be praised for its execution of the "Batman vs EVERYONE" mythos.

Gadgets and tricks are top-notch too. Batarangs, Batclaws, Explosive Gels all come into play with great effect.

In-game cinematics were not so great, what with my graphics, but out-of-play cinematics were brilliant.
Level design; rather good, although I have seen a number of the arbitrary levels; the stealth level, the sewer level, the jumping-around level, etc. Oh well.

I've only encountered three boss fights at the moment. The first not-so-boss-like mutated joker goon was a simple matter of jumping out of the way. The next, Scarecrow, was absolutley fantastic. Seriously, that level was absolutley extraordinary. Let's just say you use the Bat-Signal in a more...potent way then usual :P.
Bane was nothing special, although it did piss me off what with slow reaction times through the game.

Also, a Batcave is used (of course) but it isn't as fancy as the ones in the movies. Oh well.

Last note; is it wrong that I felt more angry with goons trying to trash the Batmobile then I did when doctors were being kidnapped?

Bottom Line; It's awesome.

There we go. Toodle-oo for now, am having to pack mule stuff to Uni tommorow. Yay?

District 9!

Well, this week has been a good one.

+16 Started, and it's turning out to be a blast. I've got fairly good teachers in all my lessons, EXCEPTION being my Physics teacher, who is freaking AWESOME. Seriously, he's like me grown up. How cool is that?

Anyway!

I went to see District 9 today. I had been wanting to see it for a while now, so it was the culmination of a lot of anticipation. I think I was the most exicted to be there at the time :P

On the film itself, it is truly, specatcularly, awesome.

I might be raving about it, but it really was great, and very much appeased my sense in films. There were emotional bits, mega-gory bits, bits that were hilariously ironic, all of it.

Oh yeah...

And a HUGE. FUCKING. MECHA.

Seriously, to quote one of my respected movie critics, "it did aliens better the Star Trek, gunfights better then G.I. Joe, robots better then Transformers and special effects better then Terminator: Salvation" - MovieBob.

This film was great. The aliens were taken with a bit of Cthulu-esque imagining; i admired the intuitive, if arbitrary way that the humans couldn't use the aliens guns.

And the alien guns were pretty fucking awesome too.

And they left a fairly blatant open-ended story ready for a sequel? District 10? Hells yes!

"Ipsa scientia potestas est" - Knowledge itself is power...

Well, i'm gonna just steal greenpanda666's idea of a summer round up too.

This summer has been a fairly good one. I have gone out furlongs more than I usually did, and achieved a fair bit. The quick rundown;

- I have managed to get some nice new clothes for the upcoming school year, involving many trips to town, which have been fun.

- I've been to various people's houses and actually gone out and done stuff for once!

- I managed to get a fairly good set of results, although I didn't do that big a thing that I would have liked.

-I managed to make a fair few thing in my garage using odds and ends that i'm fairly proud of (see pressure pad)

- Health-wise, i'm not bang up to fitness as I wanted. My plans of doing excercise was sidetracked a few times, so I still have a gut.

- I managed to read a fair number of useful classics, such as Catch-22, Neuromancer and Y: The Last Man.

- I've managed to distinguish different alcohol, and have tried vodka and moonshine whiskey. (Tastes like shite)

- I have attempted to restard Keyboard playing. It's a start, although I would love to try out a saxophone.

- My main failure this summer is that I haven't been able to get a job. Ideally, i'd like to work where there's lots of books, such as the local library or Borders. But we'll see, I suppose.

I'm still worrying a bit about the subject's i've chosen for AS. I took Physics, Maths, Computing and History, but i'm worried that instead of taking Sciencey subjects I should have picked Artsy subjects; I would have changed for English Lit, Philosophy, History and something else.

Meh.

Bit scared now, since I wish I was good at Chemistry. Lots of things I could have done with that.
A list of interesting jobs I would have liked doing;
- Physicist, of the normal sort

- Astrophysicist, or something to do with space travel (like ground control, building it etc). I'm no Astronaut though.

- Meteorologist. Looking at a book I was given with various jobs, Meteorology fits in well with my subject choices. (Meteorology=Weather forecasting)

- Communications; filming movies/TV shows, etc.

- Editor/Publisher; Something to do with books would be mighty useful.

- Pyrotechnician. I would have loved to do this, but unfortunatly it requires high levels of Chemistry (Pyrotechnics are the fire displays in movies, gigs, etc, so the explosion guy xD)

- Programmer; Working on physics engines for games?

- Inventor; this is an outlandish and unpractical one, but hell its interesting.

- Pilot; very difficult with glasses.

Anyhoo.

I had a haircut. It's short. My stupidly long hair is gone.

School tommorow! Let's hope that I can keep organised this time, eh?

Huzzah!

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Great day, all things considered. Results!

2 C's: D&T (which was a given, because my teacher hates me), and French (which I suck at)
1 B: Physics (although i'm looking into that, seems to be an outlier there)
7 A's: R.E. , English, English Lit, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, ICT
1 A*: History!

Yippee dippee doo!
Doing nothing today, but my weekend seems like it'll be filling up hopefully. Should be going to a short shindig tommorow, a possible rave on saturday and a family meal on sunday.

"If", by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thought your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings:

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a man, my son!

Thoughts? Opinions?

"Also, I can kill you with my brain"

This is me.
Me in a nutshell.

New post?!?!

Yeah. Started watching Firefly, as I recently aquired it for a very good price. Only watched the first couple of episodes so far, but OMG so awesome. It's like a Western set in space. Smuggling, heroics, Nathan Fillion punching someone in the face, it's all there. Truly awesome TV.





Hum. Other news. I have been out and about recently, wich is a plus for me! Good times.

I also recently downloaded Batman Arkham Asylum demo. It's a game (you guessed it) about Batman essentially in a prison with all the supervillains and inmates going loose. Great demo, cannot wait for the game.

Soo, that's all for now. Ho hum.

The sum of my boredness

Ahoy-hoy. Haven't been updating recently, due to some reasons that it's been rather boring. Went into an emo mode for a few days, but today I re-awoke the inventor in me.

Behold! Using nothing but Mcgyver-like tools, I created my own pressure pad. As you could guess, its a very simple process. You push down on it, it creates a circuit that emits a buzzer. Kept my sanity, though. I filed it under "physics-related mayhem".














It works too! I hid it under the doormat and nearly gave my brother a heart attack. Good stuff.

Onto other things. I recently read Catch-22, a good book. I might review it. Neuromancer and Paradise Lost should be arriving soon. Mebbe get a job as an editor? Not half a bad idea.

Might make a tripwire today. Shouldn't be too difficult.
Also need a job. Humbug. Am checking with Blaby Library, if I can get a job there that'd be ace. Working among books? Hells yes.

Could do with some new hoodies actually. Will need to head into town one day to sort that out.
That's all for now. We shall see what happens.

Mythos

Ahoyhoy, i'm back in the game it seems. Just finished writing up the *sizeable* chunk of the next installment to Agressive Expansion. #3 is up right now, if you want to take a gander.

At this point in time, it *is* my summer. Birthday shennanigans were rather mild this year, compared to other years. Need stuff to fill my time with. Hurm.
A curious note of mine; this year, I only recieved a few gifts as presents. It's a little sad, because when you were younger you'd ask for junk that you wouldn't remember. Now, since your older, you're wiser about investments. Just a thought.

As said before, I need a job. Up 'till now, i've always thought i'd get a job at my local library that's close by. I visit it regularly (it's good, so lynch me) and i'm hoping there's an opening. We'll see.

Brother's vamoosed off to spain for a week. Lucky sod.

A side note; I've been re-reading American Gods, and you'd be surprised at how many religious/deity references there are in it. It focuses not only on the famous Greek Parthenon, it takes elements from Norse and Egyptian too. It takes various religious concepts into it as well, even referring in one of the funnier statemements:

"So yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him hitchhiking by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride. You know? It all depends on where you are."

Quite funny, I thought.

Anyhoo, there's more mindless twaddle. Ta-ra for now.

Quote of the Moment- The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Birthdayness

It be my birthday :D :D

Go me!

Induction

Dreading tommorow. So much.

One day on the internet...

Not blogged for nearly a week now; haven't had much to say, really. I now have a funky-looking cut on my wrist (NOT EMO SLITTING IT GOT COUGHT ON A BED) and i'm just keeping the wheels going.

Presentation evening tonight. Should be alright. Prom on thursday. Still don't know about transport there & back.

So I leave you with this:



Protip: say it out loud.