Archive for January, 2008

29JanA Rather Embarrassing Episode..

It’s 9.05am, Monday. I am fast asleep after a late night of forum posting and 3D work, and I hear what appears to sound like a doorbell, I awaken suddenly not entirely sure of where I am, what time it is or why I just woke up. The doorbell rings again, I look out the window next to the bed and see a City Link van parked outside, remembering that the replacement coffee machine is arriving for my parents. I quick as a flash run into the en-suite, grab the dressing gown and run down the stairs, tieing the dressing gowns belt loosely around the trim of my boxer shorts, I take a sharp left and answer the door as the third ring, and surely last, of the doorbell rings out.

I open the door, slightly out of breath, and thank the guy for waiting. He looks at me, hands me the clipboard in his hands, “Hi, erm, can you sign here and, er, print here, I’ll get the package out the van, thanks.”
Still sleepy, I do as requested, look up and see the fellow coming from the back of the van with a big brown box carried to his chest, “Is this a replacement?”,
“Yes, it’s a Coffee Machine,”
“I hope it works, erm, better than the last one did,” he says, glancing over the top of the box,
“Yeah, me too, been a while without one,” I reply with my best ‘I’m awake’ smile and voice,
“Okay, you, erm, signed the.. yes, thanks, have a, erm, good day, bye,”.
Nice guy I thought, perhaps a bit simple, but it was nice to see someone talk for a change, albeit only just.

I throw the box on the floor (literally, I dropped it) and ran upstairs to get back to bed as 9.05am (or 9.08am as it now was) is far too early for me, so I go into the bathroom and hang my robe up, look down and it’s at that point I realise my cock is hanging out between boxer buttons numbers 1 and 2, and was in full view for anyone leaving to go to work and for the City Link man.
So for anyone wearing button boxers, be careful and check when you rush out of bed.

Ironically, this isn’t the first time I’ve been caught unawares with my privates out in public…. Ahhh, Istanbul 2004 :p.

26JanIs Anyone Else Sick of the Bloody Nurburgring?

I swear to christ, every single racing game these days seems to have this hell hole of a driving circuit and Project Gotham Racing 4 is no different. I recently went back to it and started playing it. I’ve not really put too many hours into the game, or at least it doesn’t feel like too many, and I’m one race off completing Arcade Mode on Platinum, it’s the ‘Beheamoth’ race, race 6 of the penultimate race series, a 7 minute race if you do it well. I put 2.5 hours solid into it last night (as well as previous efforts in the last couple of days) and regularly got 5 minutes in before some assclown in a Ferrari (either the F50 GT or FXX, it varies) knocks me out the way. Tossers.

Platinum ArcaderI’m so sick of racing this track now. It was fun back in Project Gotham Racing 2, but we’ve seen it in pretty much everything since that’s a ‘proper’ racing game, and all the major ones which means Project Gotham Racing 3, Forza Motorsport 2 and Project Gotham Racing 4. It’s now becoming a little bit tiresome. Surely there are other tracks in the world they could use, hell, even city tracks are superior. Two of Project Gotham Racing 4’s new tracks absolutely batter it in terms of enjoyment, those being Macau and Quebec and whilst Shanghai isn’t to the same standard, it’s again better than The Ring. In fact, I’d say all the other tracks are superior. What do you think?

GET IN THERE :D .
I wouldn’t mind, twice I cocked the last corner up and lost on the final bend. It turned out to be easy after learning the track by key features in relation to lap times. Great. They can keep The Ring in games now =].

23JanAwww, Heath :(

Heath Ledger was discovered dead in his room today, suspected overdose. Really gutting as he was a great actor, I still love A Knights Tale. Normally not a fan of RIP blog posts, but this is genuinely gutting.

For those who don’t know, he’s the Joker in the upcoming Batman film.

22JanHappy Birthday Matthew!

Maffew

It’s Matthew of http://www.maffew.com’s birthday today. Hope he enjoys his presents, he got a particularly tasty one from his Girlfriend, Catherine of http://www.catdixon.com, a 40″ Samsung HDTV…. *jealous*.

I got him Superbad on DVD. I think it’s clear that both presents are equal in terms of quality, but mine’s the timeless classic.

20JanThis Is Why My Host Is American

I’ve been questioned several times in the past why I use an American webhost rather than one more local such as a British one.
When I signed up it was a package deal I couldn’t refuse. It was an anniversary deal where I could get a years hosting for less than $10, this offered:

  • 1TB Bandwidth per Month
  • 20GB Webspace
  • Unlimited MySQL
  • 3000 POP/Mail accounts
  • 75 Shell accounts
  • Domain Registration
  • FTP Access
  • Webcontrol Panel
  • Real/Quicktime Streaming

So as I said, it was a deal I couldn’t refuse. I took the gamble in the second year at full price which offered practically the same, but with more bandwidth and more space and again, it’s been great.I’ve used Dreamhost now for 2 years and they’ve been faultless for 99% of the time, however, earlier this week on Monday 14th January I recieved a billing e-mail from Dreamhost:

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19Jan…It Made Me Laugh…

12JanWow. Just wow.

Man Utd 6 - 0 Newcastle :o.

Today was somewhat of a surprise in the Premiership. Not that Man Utd beat a managerless Newcastle after they sold ‘Big Sam’ Allardyce, but that they beat them so comprehensively. As you can see above it was an absolute mauling… a second half mauling. After watching the game from the start it was all one way, although Newcastle had a couple of moments, firstly Owen had an onside goal disallowed as well as several excellent last minute tackles from the Newcastle back-line and some excellent saves from Newcastle legend, Shay Given.

But none the less, it was a phenomenal performance in which Man Utd had:

  • 54.7% Possession
  • 29 Shots
  • 16 Shots on Target
  • 16 Corners
  • 31 Tackles
  • 372 Accurate Passes
  • 0 Saves made

So it goes without saying, quite the performance. Stunning.

Was great to finally see Cristiano get his first hat-trick for Man Utd too, especially on the 18th attempt (he’s scored twice in a game for Man Utd 17 times in his career). 22 goals already this season and it’s only 1/2 way through. Messi and Kaka better than Ronaldo? Bollocks.

Best. Player. In. The. World.


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