Ways to ...... at work.
Place a monitor when there is no room for a table or stand...


Rope it off to a ladder.
- posted by J @ 22:22

 

The 5 things meme.

Another of robs 5 things meme, this one is:

5 things you simply must have on your bookshelf.

1. The readers digest diy handbook.
Not a very exciting start but true none the less. It is one of those books that is like an old friend, always there in a time of need. It holds concise instructions on how to do all those little fiddly jobs about the house that you never even considerd when you bought the thing.

2. A bowl.
Now personaly I concider book shelves to be for books, and therefore fill them with books. However there are others who think that bookshelves should also be the domain of bowl's, pictures and gereral dust gathering nic-naks. I will conciede on the bowl front, it is a very useful place for putting all those bits and bobs that have no perminent home and give you time to decide the best course of action.

3. Now we are 6.
Why should we have this, well it is not for reading or for going to in times of crisis, it is thereto remind us that we should hang on to a little bit of our childish side.

4. Anything by Douglas Adams.
For as lomg as I can remember I have had a Douglas adams book on my bookshelve either one of the "hitchikers" books or one of the "Dirk gently" series. There is a nice feel about them and they can fill a "lack of reading matter" hole as they are easy to read over and over.

5. A dictionaty.
For obvious reasons.

Done, time for someone else to have a go.
- posted by J @ 19:21

 

Culinary construction

For generations I feel we have been overlooking a viable alternitve to concrete and brick. Many fables have given us the answer, that substance is gingerbread.
The use of gingerdread as a construcion medium has long been surpressed by the powers that be, due to the whole witch/troll issue that surrounds it, there also has been great controversy over it's use following the child Vs witch trial in the 70s, where the judge found in favour of Ms Witch and sumerised by saying
"If someone want's to build there property out of baked goods they were free to do so and should not be expected to pay for defending that property from hungry maurading children, who's parents should be in better control".
Now I understand that some of you may be sceptical and are thinking things like, can it be made load bearing, how wll it be waterproof things like that. Well these are good question and could only be solved with proper goverment funded reaserch. Think though of the advantages, a cheap, easy to repair and maintain, easy to alter building material and in times of emergency a concentrated food source.
This does of course open up a whole world of possabilities in building construction, breadstick beams, flapjack flooring, toffee windows all a possability.
Unfortunatly the powers that be will never allow it and will use the excuse that it is a stupid idea and holds no mert.
Filastines!
- posted by J @ 18:14

 
MEME
Stolen from lemur

The Rules:
1. You must only answer YES or No
2. You may NOT explain ANYTHING unless someone asks in a comment

Taken a picture naked? Yes

Made out with a member of the same sex? Yes

Danced in front of your mirror? Yes

Told a lie? Yes

Gotten in a car with people you just met? Yes

Been in a fist fight? Yes

Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? Yes

Been arrested? Yes

Left your house without telling your parents? Yes

Ditched school to do something more fun? Yes

Slept in a bed with a member of the same sex? Yes

Seen someone die? No

Kissed a picture? Yes

Slept in until 3pm? Yes

Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? Yes

Played dress up? Yes

Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes

Felt an earthquake? Yes

Touched a snake? Yes

Ran a red light? No

Had detention? Yes

Been in a car accident? Yes

Pole danced? No

Been lost? Yes

Sang karaoke? Yes

Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? Yes

Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? Yes

Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes

Kissed in the rain? Yes

Sang in the shower? Yes

Got your tongue stuck to a pole? Yes

Ever gone to school partially naked? No

Sat on a roof top? Yes

Played chicken? Yes

Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? Yes

Been told you're hot by a complete stranger? Yes

Broken a bone? Yes

Mooned/flashed someone? Yes

Forgotten someones name? Yes

Slept naked? Yes

Blacked out from drinking? Yes

Played a prank on someone? Yes

Felt like killing someone? Yes

Made a parent cry? Yes

Cried over someone? Yes

Had sex more than 5 times in one day? Yes

Had/Have a dog? Yes

Been in a band? No

Drank 25 sodas in a day....aka POP? No

Shot a gun? Yes

Well that Killed 5mins
- posted by J @ 17:12

 

Very usefull links.

Well after much fiddly diddling the new links page is up and running. When I migrate to the new look page there will be a nice link but for the mo you can click the "main" button at he top and then the "links" button to take you there.
There are a nice mix but I can always use more so keep em coming.
Thanks to all those who have contrabuted so far.
- posted by J @ 09:21

 

Update

The tanks are great fun!!!!
- posted by J @ 09:19

 

Games galore.

Many of you will know my passion for UT2004 and I am rather selective about what games I install (as time is an issue) but I have recently been given, due to a combination of kindness and overactive ordering, a copy of Call of duty 2.
Now upon first inspection the game looks very much like Medal of honour, well it is made by the same people, but it it does have some very nice touches.
For staters you begin as Prvt vesilis (real russian sniper, russian hall of heroes, watch enemy at the gate) in the ruins of starlingrd, which makes a change from being a US soilder. the missions are a lot more absorbing than Medal as they amalgamate several into one which enables you to continue along without to much waiting around for loading screens.
Some of the gameplay touches are nice, things like being able to pick weapons up from the dead but also the idea of not just having generic ammunition, russian gun russian ammo.
My favourite touch is to the sniper rifle, in most games when you look through the sight on a snipers rifle you get a static view, you line up the shot, bang. With this one however you get a slight wobble, to steady you have to hold shift at which point you hear a sharp intake of breath and you heartbeat. The longer you hold shift the louder your beat gets until you can hold you breath no longer and your sight wobbles wildly around. All this has the effect of completly emersing you in what you are doing (which ment I got shot in the back a couple of times by erant nazi troopers). This brings me nicely to my next item and that is the AI.
Like most of these games the AI is fairly stupid on the easy setting but having said that they are still fairly tricky buggers to shoot, added to that if you wing them they will lie on the ground and shoot at you with there pistol or try and crawl away, they also have a nice way of relocating and replacing fallen men on gun implacments which gives the game a little more edge.
After the russian missions you move onto british at Al elamein and it starts to get a little more hairy from the start with clearing bunkers, crossing mine fileds with tanks and spotting for artillery.

The overall graphics are excelent and the general feel is great, the balistics and reactions are good (shrapnel etc) and the gameplay is great. But I will reserve final judgement till the end.
The only gripe I have is that in all these games your own men tend to be a little dim and step in front of you while you are shooting, which can be a little annoying.

So far I am about halfway through the game and would recomend it, especialy if you like the whole ww2 genre that is about at the mo.
- posted by J @ 14:07