On All Kinds of Stuff

It's amazing what you can find when you tidy out cupboards. For example, I've just come across some sheets of paper with what I think are level passwords for my NES version of Lemmings. I haven't played that in ages... and now I want to. Shame all 8 of my NESs (don't ask) are currently buried under a pile of all kinds of other crap next door.

The moral of the story is that if you want me to tidy something, hide a copy of Lemmings under it.


I've decided to do a running commentary on me sorting these drawers. I've just found a packet of crayons. And I don't know why.

And lots of earphones. I think they just appear out of holes in the universe. Possibly the same holes that socks fall into when they're not being watched.

And I've just found my old passport. I was thinking of showing a picture of the pudgy, hoodie-wearing 9 year old whose identity I stole in 2000 but the camera just comes out blurry and I don't have access to a scanner. So you'll just have to use your imaginations. Don't imagine me as too ugly.

Daleks are really hard to clean, particularly all the dust that builds up in the slats and around the sense globes. I wonder how Daleks clean themselves... A car wash maybe?


Well, given up on tidying now. I'll have to get more done tomorrow but for now, Optimash Prime!

Ever just seen some cheap little thing and think "I need one of those" even though it's completely useless? And once you get it, even if you realise it was probably a waste of money, you still think it's awesome? Pretty much everything I own is like that and Optimash there is just the latest example.

On the bright side, it gave me a chance to fiddle around in Photoshop:


I was hoping for a better background to edit him in but I went with what I had. I might try again some time simply because I'm trying to get better at image editing. For reasons that totally don't involve blackmail.


I wrote this little post for the MacTake today, discussing some iPhone news. I started off talking about logical fallacies and end up discussing general relativity. I stopped just short of digging out my Physics folder and doing some calculations on the relativistic mass of an iPhone at various speeds.


I came this little gem of a video on YouTube today. It's worth watching for the music alone but it also does make you realise just how often Homer Simpson changes careers.


I got an actual comment on one of my posts yesterday. Eletric_Rainbow said of "Warning: This post is terrible. Don't read it.":

"That wasn't half as boring as you seemed to think it would be. It was actually pretty interesting. You're very entertaining. :)"

Not half as boring as I thought, huh? How dare you disagree with me, insolent peasant! Everything will be as boring as I say it shall be! Just for that, tomorrow's post will be about the history of turnip cultivation in Europe. Then we'll see who's boring!

But seriously, thanks for the comment. Reading over that post, it's actually not as terrible as I'd thought. Which throws two things into sharp relief; one, I should read over these things before putting them up, and two, it's extremely depressing that I get so few comments that I can afford to devote several paragraphs to each one. On the bright side, I can claim that 100% of comments are positive.

Also, I wasn't joking about the turnips thing. Prepare yourselves.