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That is good! Just spent the last hour drawing some crap when I should be in bed.

I'm not aware of sneering at anyone's posts, let alone singling you out. I'm sorry you feel that way.

A friend just gave me The Flashbulb's new album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life. Oh. My. Gosh. It's rekindled all kinds of love of electronica. Best listen I've had in a long time.

Edit. Silly post.

Yep, I agree with this. Good telly.

Blu-Ray is apprently technically superior, but the word on a lot of HD forums etc is saying that of the films released on HD-DVD a higher proportion of them are of better quality than releases on Blu-Ray on a like-for-like comparison. Some folks have both players apparently. The fools.

...then you need this! http://blog.audiovideointeriors.com/208great/

Ah well. If you've ever purchased a long awaited game from Steam (e.g. Bioshock) you should be aware of how shit they are, and not attempt to update when they say they will. Maybe stay in bed a little longer?

While we were on holiday in Peru, we ended up travelling about with these couple of Hungarian girls that we got on with. It took me a day or two to realise that I had this album on me, so if anyone is in the remote bit interested, here's a track listing, plus pronunciation, and meaning. Pron. of title: Ross - Chillog - Allat - Tzuletett "Born under a bad star" Track Title Pronunciation Meaning 1)Sikertelenség Shee-kerr-talem-shaig Unsuccessful 2)Szerencsétlen Zeren-chet-lan Unlucky 3)Öngyilkos Vasárnap Ohner-dia-cosh Vas-er-nap Suicide Sunday 4)Felbomlaszt Mentökocsi Felt-borm-lasto Menk-tur-auto Decomposing Ambulance 5)Hajnal Hoy-nal Down 6)Galamb Egyedúl Ga-lambe Edy-a-dhoole Pigeon Alone 7)Második Galamb Mar-sho-dik Ga-lambe Second Pigeon 8 )Szamár Madár SAR-maah Mo-dar Donkey Bird 9)Hiszékeny He-say-keng Naive 10)Kétsarkú Mozgalom Keert-shar-koo Mwaz-garlomb Double Edged Movement 11)Senki Dala Shan-key Dollaah Nobody's Song ...and on My Downfall... Holló Utca Hoy-llo Ootsa Hoax Street

Venetian Snares (aka Aaron Funk) is a Canadian Gabba producer, or that's at least what he started off doing. He also makes glitchy electronica (album'Cavalcade of glee...'), glitchcore, and under the moniker 'Last Step' some more accessible electronica rather like Aphex Twin. Anyway, back in 2005, he brought out the album above, and pretty much blew away everyone who ever heard it who was into electronic music. It was a masterful blend of classica string instruments and some pretty hard electronica, at times drum and bass, at times gabba, and sometimes just pure, beautifula nd mournful strings, oftern with staggering complexity. It was (and is) fabulous. Anyway, the album was released with a hungarian title and track names, due to Funk being a fellow with an unusual creative streak. Anyway, I leaped at the chance to decipher it, and for those that said they liked it on here, I posted up the translation. If you have liked drum and bass at any time in your past, or indeed any sort of electronic dance music, you must listen to this album. In my opinion, Aaron Funk is one of the most impressive and accomplished programmers in the world in today.

Richard Scarry! I used to love that as a kid. Also, there's another book that I loved, called, 'A book-full of beans' by Richard Fowler. Amazon list it at 75 quid! Got it at home somewhere.

It's the first shooter on a console I've actually enjoyed playing, as prior to that, PC was the only way forward for things of that ilk. COD4 is the second.

Your message box is full.

Me, my girlfriend and another friend. The hungarians were very sweet girls.

I don't mind shipping it if you don't mind paying it

CPU upgrades are only really useful for things like photoshop or for games like Total War, Company of Heroes or Supreme Commander, where a lot of mathematics goes on in the background for calculating trajectories etc between large groups of things. For FPS's you're best off spending the money on graphics power, especially with Bioshock. If you're interested, I'm thinking of selling my AGP X1900XTX card (with an Arctic Cooling X2 for quietness). That played Bioshock at 1680x1050 with hardly any problems.

Whatever CPU you decide to go for, get an 8800GT gfx card.

Edit. Apologies, mind still scrambled from jet-lag.

Just to clarify, The Wire is about the baltimore drug scene? Started in 2002? Series 5 on at the moment? Might try and get some. On another note, I saw 3:10 to Yuma the other day - I loved it. Great story.

I only resurrected a thread cos I was so pleased I got MI1 &2, sam and max and DotT workign on my DS.

Really dodgy thread resurrection, I know, but I'm so delighted, I thought I'd go on about it to people who'd at the very least understand. After hearing about ScummVM a long time ago, I'd not really done anything about it, until the possibility of running on my DS has reared it's head. Anyhow, long story short, I'm off on hols soon, and I have to take with me, DooT, Sam & Max, MI1 & 2 on my DS. How exciting! I've not played them since I originally played them. Hopefully the puzzles will be fresh again, apart from the most famous ones.

Geek Chic.

Hadn't jackson been working on the script for LotR in his own time for ten years or so? How could 'The Hobbit' match this, unless he was doing it alongside?

Thunderpeel, I wanted to adda comment to that blog thing about geeks, but the little picture wouldn't show up, so then I tried to transfer my blog over to google, but it wouldn't let me even register. Anyhow, here's the post: I agree completely, and was thinking about this a few years ago. You can effectively call someone a geek if they're really into something. Thus you get skateboarder geeks, computer geeks, sailing geeks, car geeks, DJ (music) geeks etc. Geek is essentially a derogatory word used for someone who is interested in something. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not a geek, then you aren't interested in anything in particular - which has got to be dull. Ok, so real geeks perhaps aren't very interesting to others outside their chosen field (I know some bad ass mechanics and scratch DJ's that I would call geeks, and who would describe themslves as being so if they were being honest), it's just that some people's interests are viewed as 'cooler' than others. Declaration of interest: I'm a car, music and computer geek by the way.

Don't bother with the movie, just read the books.