Jerry Fallwell, founder of the Moral Majority, is dead. And good riddance. The man was a poster child for everything I dislike about fundementalist cultists. He was an intolerant, hateful, hyprocritical little man, and the world is a better, brighter place without him. Some choice quotes from the Rev. Jerry…
So, back in the day there was a video game called Star Control, which I played a lot, as well as a sequel called Star Control II which was GENIUS BRILLIANT GAMEPLAY FOR THE WIN LOL and which I played even more. One of the ships from this game was…
Annette and I have levelled our respective WoW Druids up to 65 now. Awesome. Only three levels before Flight Form, and only 5 ’till we’re capped. Woo! Tonight, on a real-life quest to purchase a Pie and some Big’Uns (Rewards: 100XP and Stamina+10 for 1 hour) we…
Prompted by the always a pleasure to read ranting stylings of , here’s a list of the worst movies I have ever seen. (Note – Limited to: (a) Movies I have seen relatively recently since I tend to put bad ones out of my mind, and (b) Biggish budget stuff rather…
The always-funny Wil Wheaton posted a fantastic picture this morning – it’s of US President Bush giving a speech, while US Vice President Cheney literally lurks in the shadows. Now there have been some excellent suggestions for a caption for this, including the following (my personal favourites).. “Ahhh. Back on…
Elvis .. THE Elvis .. was apparently a huge Monty Python fan. Or so says his then-girlfriend Linda Thompson. Try to imagine Elvis Presley doing a Monty Python bit. The dead parrot sketch, perhaps. Or the Bruces Philosophy song. Go ahead…just try. That’s good old fashioned nightmare fuel.…
Cleaned up my friends list today, unfriended people who haven’t posted for ages or simply don’t post any more. A jorb well done! Actual conversation had at work: “Seriously, JSR, why are using that Second Life thing? The graphics are so bad.” “They’ll fix them in time.…
Thanks to an unusual set of influences (namely: Noted author and Internet Jesus Mr Warren Ellis, my fellow Something Awful Goons, and most notably my best friend the lovely and talented kai_loi) I have been tinkering around with Second Life. In fact, I’ve just signed up with a…