February 2012
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To the scum of the world...
So, I caught some scum-sucker on the roof of our wash house the other day trying to steal a metal flue. I mean honest to god, a metal flue. I know that people are hard up, and scrap metal is going for a bomb and all that, but if I had thought the hunk of junk up on that roof was worth something I’d have ripped it off already and sold it myself.
Just even more galling is the fact it looks...
January 2012
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2012... Come on then Mayan's - SHOW US WHAT YOU'VE...
After recovering from the hell-virus that floored me for half of my holiday period, it’s quite irritating that I’m already back to work in about 13 hours.
*sigh*
Well, after the horrible year that 2011 was, I have decided on a couple of resolutions (revolutions?) to try and make 2012 as great as it bloody well can be. Here we go -
Try 52 separate whiskies. That’s whiskies as...
December 2011
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Good god, it's December already...
Jesus Christ almighty, where the hell does the time go?
I think I can honestly say this has been a proper annus horribilis and definately a year I’ll be wanting to forget in a hurry. It’s nearly a year since my wife and I got flooded out of our home (week on Friday to be exact) and to say that everything has went to pot since then would be something of an understatement.
It is part...
November 2011
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Gary Speed 1969-2011
It seems to be that I only jump on here for obituaries lately, but the shock of someone like Gary Speed, the Welsh national team manager, passing so suddenly at such a young age seems to make me want to put something down in writing.
Speed was seen to be the consummate professional throughout his long playing and brief managerial career, similar to the on field and off field presence Ryan Giggs...
October 2011
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Rebooting DC's... →
dresdencodak:
What are heroes without villains? To follow up with my Rebooting the Justice League post, where I treated those characters to a more extreme reboot than DC’s “New 52,” I thought it would be fun to take a look at a redesigned villain team to oppose my redesigned Justice League:
Make…
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Just woke up to the news that Steve Jobs died yesterday. Just… Wow, I’m not even sure what I can say. The way he revolutionised consumer products over the years is on a par with the greatest inventors.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, Steve Jobs revolutionised it. Enough said.
(written on my iPhone)
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You know something? Until I posted that picture, I forgot I had an actual blog on here! I’ve just been using it to follow other blogs and like them!
Sigh.
I actually spent a little time going back and reading some of my posts on here, and noticed one particular post where I said I wasn’t going to let 2011 kick my ass.
August and September did that in one fell swoop, regardless of...
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Rebooting the... →
dresdencodak:
So, following the immense popularity of my 5 Essential Character Redesigns post, I decided to take a more thorough stab at revamping DC Comic’s Justice League. I’ve already mentioned before that I think their current “New 52” reboot, aimed at gaining new readers, is terribly ineffective,…
September 2011
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Erika Moen's Tumblr: Today A Man Touched Me On The... →
katespencer:
I’m writing this on the R train as it rattles slowly along toward Brooklyn. I’m headed to pick up my 6-month-old daughter. I’m writing because I’m still reeling from what occurred on the Times Square subway platform a few moments ago. I was walking to the end of the station as I…
Ben the Illustrator: Let's Start A New... →
bentheillustrator:
Let’s do it! Come on illustrators! Grab your pencils and macs and stuff, let’s go start a new industry! It’ll be like Detroit in the 1950s, where industry is king, we’re talking Boomtown here! It’s going to be ace, and we’re all going to be professional illustrators on professional wages. Are you…
August 2011
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The single worst place... →
Posted this on twitter so better post it here as well - to my friends and family in London, stay safe. To those involved in the rioting, violence, looting et all - fuckin’ grow up and get a life. What goes around comes around in this life and those inciting hatred, racism and innocent suffering in London these past three days will get their just deserts. At least, I’d like to think so.
July 2011
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WatchYeah, our hamster can be a bit of a lunatic sometimes…
A rather odd review - Harry Potter and the Deathly...
I’d like to start this post off by saying I’m not a fan of Harry Potter. I read the first book during my school years and just didn’t like it, and it kind of put me off of the whole franchise. I’d also like to point out that I did see the film on Sunday and have taken this long to get the thoughts down so that I wasn’t basically rambling too bad.
As… you know,...
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on the subject of alienated youth...
You may or may not be familiar with my comic Alienated Youth. You may or may not also know about how… temperamental I am with the general updating of said comic. You might also notice that I haven’t updated the comic in around… ooooh… a month.
Basically, I feel like I have absolutely screwed up the production of the comic, from the story to the format. I’ve basically...
June 2011
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I am what I am because of who we all are.
I don’t know what made me look into it. I think I was just faffing about on Wikipedia (yes, I know, I am such a geek. I like to link hop on Wikipedia) when I came across the page on Ubuntu. I just read about it and for some reason got intrigued. I’m not one for changing my work environment – I’ve been running Windows on computers since I was… god, 14, maybe … and I have no...
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I'm up, I'm ... urgh, where am I again?
Yeah, so I got to the epic fail part again when it comes to updating on the interwebs. I’ve basically had life kicking my ass and winning lately, but I’m taking steps to rectify that.
No, this is not going to be one of those introspective ‘I’m a weepy little shite’ posts. Those days are gone. Mostly.
Here’s my to do list for the next month or so for the...
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Official: Scott Adams is neither funny or... →
I think it so funny sometimes reading the opinions of someone who has earned a modicum of success, especially when they manage to fire so wide of the mark that you have to wonder if they deserve any of the success they’ve managed to build up. Scott Adams’ new rant is one such opinion in which he camped rape in with tweeting and cheating as ‘natural male instincts’.
Am I...
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slipping in and out of conscience →
May 2011
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Yeah, comic for Friday. Like that was gonna...
I know it said on the Alienated Youth website that the next comic was dropping on Friday past, but you know that thing? What is it? Life? Think that’s the one. It got rather fun last week.
Never mind family stuff (which I will NOT get into just now, mostly as everything seems better that it did last week), but I got the headaches again. Now, I never used to suffer from them, but boy howdy...
They were never that good at hide and seek →
Overconfidence gets you nowhere... →
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end of the darkest days
3520 days ago, a dark cloud covered New York City. Tonnes of ash covered a very changed Manhattan skyline as the world mourned the felling of the World Trade Center towers, killing thousands of people from every walk of life, more or less every continent on Earth and touching an entire generation. As did Washington D.C. with plane fuselage poking out of the side of the Pentagon, the very epicentre...
Chapter 3 - The Calm Before The Storm →
April 2011
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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review: one single life
For those of you who don’t know, I own a slab of wonderment known as an iPhone. Specifically, I have an iPhone 3G which I am so glad that I will be upgrading this summer (In about 2 months. Thank god and all that). Because of this, and my usual tendency to just trawl the Internet for no reason other than I’m bored, I find myself on occasion randomly searching through the App Store. I...
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on the subject of weddings...
Before I really go on here, I do wish Prince William and Kate Middleton all their happiness today. As someone who has been through the fun (and stress) of a wedding, it’s great when a young couple celebrate their love.
However, is anyone else sick yet of this royal wedding palaver being shoved down our collective throats? The bunting has started already, with people putting union flags up...
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I think it’s pretty bleedin’ obvious I’ve been… missing in action lately. No posts, no pictures, not even a comic posted for nearly a month on Alienated Youth. Simple reason is time. Well, in fact it was time compunding the fact of a virus.
A computer virus, that is. Something I’ve not had the fun of for… ooooooh… 7 years or so. Simple fact is I let my...
March 2011
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tinysprout: Scott Adams (Dilbert), deleted post →
Dude. I used to read ‘Dilbert’. Now I think I know why I don’t anymore.
Dude.
Duuuuuude
kissingunderspiderwebs:
Scott Adams wrote this post today, March 7 2011, on his blog and then deleted it.
The topic my readers most want me to address is something called men’s rights. (See previous post.) This is a surprisingly good topic. It’s dangerous. It’s relevant. It...
There are times you really should tell people... →
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simplecomics
If you’ve read my comic Alienated Youth, you may not know that the back end of that site has more or less been written by me using PHP and MySQL. It’s been a learning curve, needless to say, mostly as this has been the project I’ve been working on to teach myself both PHP and how to use MySQL.
The version of Simplecomics (what I’ve named the script) that I’m running...
Looking at the terror →
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