My Ferrari neighbour drives a Ferrari. I know this because he drives it out of his garage once every hour, taking some considerable time to rev it and navigate it around my small street. He then goes off down the road at a luxuriant and dignified pace, only to return roughly 15 minutes later, navigating [...]
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John Blades died.
November 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
First he had multiple sclerosis for most of his life. Than he got cancer. Then he died on Friday. I think he deserves a refund. I’m thinking that we are becoming rare, and we’re only middle aged. http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/bridging-disability-and-music-for-a-busy-life-20111201-1o918.html
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Belgium. Absolutely Final. Right?
November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Oh goodie. Zack Parsons has flipped his wig again and is running, well not an ARG, but certainly some weird shit delivered over multiple levels. Start here, read very carefully and make sure to click on the insect. So, absolutely final? Yes it is. When you promise Gary Numan that you’re winding it down then [...]
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My Max4Live patches
May 5th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Ranting, Uncategorized
I am transcendent with joy to announce that I have spent all afternoon coming up with some Max4Live patches. You can download them if you have Max4Live or just anyway. Read my review at the bottom! Schneiderton This plug in sends a MIDI sequence according to your distance to Florian Schneider. When Florian is asleep [...]
Worst Ghost Photo of All Time
November 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Lady Hehir was photographed while taking her wolfhound Tara for a walk in 1926. When she saw the photograph, Lady Hehir saw that Tara appeared to have the head of another dog on her rear end and … Do I really need to go on?
Do not get out of the vehicle
October 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
(New Guinea 1964. Photos by my old man)
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Dogs and Monkeys
March 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
I can’t believe I got a couple of thousand words into an analysis of Something Awful dot com. I was trying to account for why I became interested in the site’s continuing success (100,000 members, around 4,000 online at once) and it was kind of interesting but, damn, that’s not really what I’m supposed to [...]
The Golden Age of Adventure Games
February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · General Research, Uncategorized
Conventional wisdom has it that adventure gaming started in 1975 with Crowther’s ADVENTURE, reached a literary peak with the Zork series and a golden age around the Lucas Arts point-and-click period. Myst gets a tick for huge sales figures and then all is seen as a steady decline of the kind that hit the Byzantine [...]
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Pro Tools LE8 – Less Arse
December 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Digidesign have very kindly furnished me with a copy of the just released Pro Tools LE8. (After I paid for it.) So now together we can see what ‘industry standard’ means in 2008! It means Cubase. To be more precise it means getting all the good bits from Cubase and shoving them into Tools. Which [...]
Privacy
December 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
At one time when I had achieved a very modest amount of fame I stared to have a problem with phone calls. People would ring up at any time of night or day and start pumping voice assuming that (a) I was awake (b) I was available for their entertainment. When this got depressing I [...]