Sleeping Naughty

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We've used this before, haven't we? See, these things are useful sometimes...After the happenings of the past few days, one wonders if it’s time for another rest. In fact, over the weekend while over in Manchester, wandering around, commenting about things out of place and perhaps causing concern by disappearing rather earlier than expected during a party celebrating Mr Tebbutt’s survival of yet another year on this planet, a theme of sleepiness crept in through the cap flap.

There are some other factors involved, such as during a visit to some friends’ house (Thank you Mark and Avisha) where a jam session between two members of a band to be took place along with eating lots of curry type food, it lasted till about 3am, which after a train ride up north doesn’t bode well for someone wanting to stay awake.

And then the head of the 25 year old in age, 90 year old in body, lord hit the pillow and something occurred which some would say is business as usual, where others would scream in terror at the thought of what happened next. No there was no naughty things which make god cry, I fell into a deep sleep.

So much sleep in those few hours compared to the last few weeks with so many nights being so restless, it now almost seems strange. You see, one of the things in recent times that I have had to get used to is the idea of not much sleep.

Just being down in London, even being locked in the cardboard box where most reside along with 17 other people, it feels almost as if you have to use every minute of “the eyes open” bit,( I’m sure there’s a fancy word for it but I can’t spell it) to do whatever you have to do for the next day and in turn that slowly but surely tires you out at first, then you start getting used to it, then when you have a sleep in one day, and it basically screws you up.

You become as effective as patrol being used to put out fires.

Saturday for instance, was a strange sort of state fading in-between being awake to being special; with the peak of inefficiency being reached during a round at Tesco’s where I kept wandering off wondering what shiny things are down a corridor.

In many ways, you were not getting the Lord of Leisure at his best, and given the reasons why here right now, it does give pause for thought. Is this what’s going to keep happening whenever London is left behind?

I will end this entry with one final note for Mr. Tebbutt: Sorry mate, I’ll do better next time.

Gamer’s Corner: Tettering on the edge of silliness: Episode 12: The final straw: Part 1

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Every once in a while someone out there comes up with an ingenious idea. Maybe not quite as revolutionary as cheese on toast, still one worthy of recognition. When they do come out with a new concept and show it to us, the adoring bright eyed bushy tailed public, normally we pick our noses, discover why fluff we have building up in our belly buttons and move back to playing the old games that have loved and kept us safe from the evil monsters all these years.

So when the heavily long-winded titled Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1: how many more bits can they add to the title, was brought to my attention some days ago, rather than fear the concept outright and demand that the police lock it up because it touched me a in bad place, I decided as an experiment to see what the fuss was about by buying the full game as opposed to relying on the demo.

MIMES, the most evil of all of god's creatures....

Put simply, PAAOTRSPODE1 (I’m not typing the whole title out anymore) is a combination adventure / RPG with Final Fantasy 7 style combating and comic bits in-between sections of the game.

Now being a lazy man by nature, I would be tempted to say if that doesn’t sound appealing right there, then just walk away right now.

Go on.

I’m waiting….

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Gamers’ Corner: The Return

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I’m tingly. Not because IKEA are offering 2 for 1 for each chair you buy or the amazing offer to actually give you all the screws for a piece of self assembly furniture for once. Though to be honest if that happened, the world would surely end.

Instead my thoughts turn to a twisted land, filled with demons aplenty, an old man who talks endlessly about naughty things who is going to destroy this that or the other, and Amazon women who kill things while wearing only a bikini.

I now look forward to going out to the night club to experience that horror all over again, but in the mean time, Blizzard Entertainment took it upon themselves to present the “not a very big surprise considering they bought the domain name for the whole purpose of the game” surprise game, Diablo III. Diablo holds many memories for the Lord of Leisure.

When will the madness end?

For instance, the first game was a source of great evil, mainly because it annoyed me to the point where you start wondering whether or not the CD would fry giving off a better show in the microwave.

Then the second Diablo game came along, and frankly despite the fact it was a click-fest with endless battles, with the third act being pants due to midgets, (ah yes, the little people whose weakness is that they fear carrots….) it was still fun, well polished and outshone the one that came before.

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Don S. Davies – 1942 to 2008

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Taken from Gateworld

With great sadness we must report that veteran actor Don S. Davis passed away on June 29, 2008. He was 65 years old.

Don co-starred on Stargate SG-1 for the show’s first seven years, helping to launch the enduring science fiction franchise. Davis played Major General George Hammond, base commander and a father figure to many of the show’s characters.

He is also well-known for his portrayal of Major Garland Briggs in Twin Peaks.

Off-screen, Don was beloved by the show’s cast and crew. He departed the show in 2003 due to a medical condition that restricted his workload, but returned for several guest appearances on SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis in the following years. Don worked hard to improve his health, and continued to work both on screen and off until his death.

I only just read this tragic news a few minutes ago, such a great actor who everyone will know worked on Stargate for many years, a good artist as testament from his website and from all the people who met him, such a happy person. All the best to the family and friends through what is a difficult time.

The Return

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Gamers with Jobs

After an absence of quite a while, I finally got off my high horse and walked through the saloon doors to make more silly comments in Audio Email form on the Gamers with Jobs podcast, it’s a far way towards the end and judging from reactions, it wasn’t bad.

The podcast itself had an interview from EA’s Scott Blackwood telling them about the naughty they’re doing with some Wii equipment, some other discussion, and frankly how Wii Fit gets it so badly wrong about people’s weight if it uses the BMI index, an index which is the most evil of all indexes of course.

Check out the link above and enjoy! Normal service about the dilly-dallying will return tomorrow as tonight I actually watched Hancock in the West End, and therefore when I got back to the penthouse garden with the beast that lives under the stairs, I was as they say in the business, knackered.

Epilogue

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If only we had the hulk walking away music...

Of course the weekend was filled with fun and naughty, and you have seen some of the horror that befell London town as a result. There would have been some more, but it seems that our schedule clashed with the “Salute to Israel” parade that was taking place over at Trafalgar Square and therefore, to produce such a masterpiece of entertainment in front of the countless number of security guards who was on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary, let’s just say I would have made the news that day…

“Panic and chaos reigned today in London as a mad man proceeded to disrupt the precession by pretend ironing in front of the national gallery. Police suspect he was armed and dangerous, with the iron being ready to deploy in less than 45 seconds.

Fearing that the man was about to iron people to death in a mass murder crusade to avenge some people we haven’t heard of before, the police quickly wrestled the man to the ground in short order, with the ironing board putting up a fight with several officers until they found the little catch underneath and he quickly folded afterwards.

Both are still in custody tonight, and the police report that the ironing board is refusing to talk.”

Still, perhaps that would have been a better and potentially happier news story than most of the things making the headlines these days.

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What’s going to happen?

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WARNING: Due to the comment which came along after this post came up, the following post contains spoilers for a show which has already been on and therefore people know about already. But just in case they forget and do not wish to remember, please look away now.

Thank You
The Web Management

P.S. We know the picture which gives away a large part of the show which is being spoiled is in within distance of this notice, and to set it right would mean some extra work. Owing to the fact we are lazy, it will continue to be wrong. Suffer mortals!

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Will iron for cash…

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Ironing. We all have to do it if we are poor. It’s one of those immortal tasks that basically take up time, only to drag our evolved selves away from pursuits of grandeur such as writing an award-winning novel, creating a portrait of a loved pet, or picking your ears clean with a pair of cooking tongs.

It never ends too, we go through clothing like no tomorrow. And all the time we are doing it, we have either walls to stare at or a television telling us how either we can become successful parents, laugh at other people’s misery when they find out they’ve been having an affair with a midget or just one more episode of Pokemon simply to make sure that last brain cell dies screaming with agony.

What if you could make the chore just a little bit more interesting? Perhaps someone could help you out with the work or indeed just talk to you while you battle through yet another crease that just won’t die. Perhaps a change of location is in order?

Here are three examples of ways you too can make this household bore slightly more interesting. There are other examples out there but none as practical or realistic as these three:

IN 1... IN 2... IN 1...

Yes, it’s true. You’re not seeing things, those pictures are real, and before anyone asks, it was either that or watch reruns of Colombo. What would you do? Besides it may not be as extreme as some cases you have seen, perhaps the better way to look upon them as more conservative “British” methods of the sport.

I would say shocking but it’s such a crap joke…

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Since the weekend’s fun and frolics, and of course Monday’s buoyant update where lots of jolly fun was had, one could almost expect another update filled with jolly and happiness with various other words that mean the same thing, but as this is a post on Ooh Sometimes and not the Guardian, forgive me but looking up words on a thesaurus seems too much effort.

However, once again London is proving itself with the “Love, Hate” relationship that all people down here seem destined to go through each day, not so much with issues such as crime etc, but more a state of some people down in the dirty city.

On Monday, on the way to work using the tube system, there were severe delays. The reason being that someone had either committed suicide or decided to have an costly accident on the central line. Either way, that person is no longer with the living, instead preferring the company of Gandhi, Elvis and Lord Lucan.

As an outsider, just the fact that this had happened was quite a shock, as it’s not something you expect to see every day, but what was more confounding, was the reaction of the other commuters.
Half of them, didn’t seem to care and were off in their own little world of unicorns and rainbows, while all the while still managing to look miserable, and the other half standing on the platform at the time, seemed to be overly annoyed that their journey was delayed. “How dare that person stop tube trains at rush hour, bastard, we hope he got what’s coming to him….”

This was, shall we say, a different reaction to that I would expect after the staff announced that over the speakers and then proceeded to have the message repeating every few minutes.

But, as it turns out after asking around about if this was normal, feedback seems to suggest that this is a regular feature of travel in London as people seem to get bored / upset / news that their cat is alive and well and decide to see if high voltage electricity does indeed leave you on the shade of “not alive.”

Not exactly something to tell people down the pub, but nevertheless it’s worthy of a mention and only goes further to give a more balanced view of life down in London.

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Well after an amazing week, you are probably expecting a giant cascade of a weekend out and about, living the high life, sipping fuzzy liquid while laughing at homeless people and asking them if they have any spare change just to get back at them.

Well……it didn’t really happen exactly like that.

Damn you all for making quality television!

You see, there comes a point where after being out every single night, you actually have had enough. Too much of a good thing is indeed possible and therefore, after presenting the second option in a previous blog post of watching Top Gear reruns while still in bed, guess what I did. Given the fact that three middle aged blokes not only make cars engaging to watch, but over the top funny as well, it’s more than worthy of mention upon this digital tome, and may it remain great for many years to come.

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