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Shopping Etiquette

by on May 18, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Today’s blog post is a true and proper rant, so batten down the hatches!

Imagine, if you will, a clothing store. You select a few items off the racks that you want to try on, and you head to the changing rooms. You get in, and you put on that new pair of jeans, or that nice jacket, or that dashing cummerbund, and stand there admiring your potential purchase in the mirror. Except that in that mirror, you also see another customer, already in your cubicle, with their own items in hand. They say nothing, merely stand there staring at you in the store’s clothes. It feels a little awkward, and you feel like you should say something to them, since they ARE invading your personal space and obviously trying to put pressure on you to finish so that they can speed up getting back to whatever passes for a life in their world. read more

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Musings

by on April 13, 2012 at 6:00 am
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It’s a Friday update, which as usual means a quick post!

But wait, what’s this? Three random musings for the price of one? What’s the catch? I only need to sign up for the store credit card? COUNT ME IN!

Musing the first: Defusing Trolls in Battlefield 3

So, I was waiting for my regular pilot to return from his forays in the jet to take us up in the air in the attack chopper. Unfortunately, somebody had made it his mission to harass me as I waited, shooting me randomly and shining a light in my face. Wishing to express my irritation in as light-hearted a way as possible, I queried: read more

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The Classics

by on February 20, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Though I’m not entirely sure as to the age bracket that Elf Blood appeals to, I’m reasonably sure that the majority of you readers are of sufficient age to remember watching the absolutely fantastic Batman: The Animated Series during the 90s. Well, I was feeling a little nostalgic and so I started watching it again, myself, and having not seen the series since I was a child, I was absolutely gobsmacked by how high the quality of both the writing and the animation was; Not only was everything rendered in the most beautiful, dark, noir-esque style that I have ever seen nor that has been accomplished since, the best part of the entire series was the tragedy and sympathy with which many of the villains were represented. I almost wept as I watched the Two-Face two-parter again; How could a show that was nominally created for children tackle the pain and conflict of having multiple personalities with the level of emotion and greyness of morality that BTAS did? read more

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The Quickness

by on February 17, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Aloha all, and a good day to you!

Just a quick one, as I have a meeting in the morning and should have been in bed half an hour ago.

Even though we’re just about halfway through the Miscalculation arc, I’ve started drawing up ideas for the next arc. I do like getting an early start 🙂 The next arc, which is as yet unnamed, will have an A Story centring around SKO and TKO and a B Story concerning… Well, I’ll keep that a secret as it’s a very special sub-plot with a character very dear to me! read more

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SCIENCE!

by on February 13, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Today, I’ll be throwing the Science of Electricity at some young kids; It’s half-term holiday, and the wonderful Manchester Museum of Science and Industry has invited some engineering representatives to help educate them in as fun a manner as possible!

In true Me form, I seized upon the chance to do something artistic. There’s something inherently satisfying about marrying Art and Science: To me, that’s what engineering should be about. I just don’t get to flex my creative muscle in my day job as much as I got to at university, and getting to do stuff like this helps remind me why I went into Engineering in the first place. read more

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A brief horror story.

by on February 10, 2012 at 6:00 am
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It was a dark evening, cold and wet. the rain had been beating down heavily since the dull, dark afternoon had collapsed and given way to the solid blackness of evening.

I sat hunched over my tablet, with only the glow of the twin monitors to light the room. Feverishly, I slaved over this page, regarding not sleep, nor health, nor hunger. It was madness of a sort, I suppose. An obsession, a fixation, a driving force that served to hold back the vestiges of even greater imbalance; The creative thoughts were better spilled out on paper and screen than locked up in the asylum of my mind, jostling among the crowds of ideas for dominance. read more

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