James

When we moved into this flat nearly two years ago, my friend and I found the supplied aerial cable wasn't quite long enough to reach where we wanted the TV if you ran it the sensible way around the room (i.e. not posing a tripping hazard), so we haphazardly draped it over the door frame. That weekend we went out and bought an aerial cable extension kit thing, prepared and fitted it, lengthening the cable by more than enough, but my flatmate said that we should put off actually re-routing the cable for a bit, and that he'd re-do the speaker cables so that they ran neatly through the stands like they were supposed to at the same time. Obviously none of this has yet happened. I forget that stupid thing's there for months on end, then notice it again and realize how stupid it must look to visitors. Before I moved in here, I was still living at home. The centre of my room was dominated by a bunch of boxes I hadn't unpacked since university. I'd decided I didn't want to be at home for long, so it'd be pointless to unpack them. Those boxes sat there for four years. Or was it three? When did I leave university? How old am I?

At first I thought some CSS had failed to load, but on inspection it appears that no, the page was meant to look like that all along.

This isn't quite as convenient, and it's not present on the mobile version, but it's possible that you may have missed the grey upwards-arrow button at the bottom centre of the page, that will zip you back up to the top where you can access the quick navigation thing. It's an extra click, but it's better than all that scroll wheel nonsense. Also, perhaps everyone's noticed it and it's only me to whom it does not seem obvious.

I have seen TAOJJBTCRF, but not since it was on at the cinema. I did enjoy it very much, though, so I ought to rectify that.

You're right, the Greenwood soundtrack is a large part of what's exciting about TWBB and that trailer. I think what I find most impressive is what a cohesive whole it forms a part of (even the stuff composed for Bodysong). And yes, there is an amazing tension to it all. When somebody mentions tension, though, my assumption is thriller-style plot-based tension; in TWBB, the tension is character-based. aAt least, that's how I see it. I do love those films, too, but for me TWBB is his best work yet.

God, some of that stuff is crazy. How long until I can use the image-guessing one to ruin Draw Something?

I'm James#2435, because I'm imaginative like that. WARNING: I've never played another Diablo game beyond a few minutes of a demo once, and I didn't get very far in Torchlight. And I'm pretty bad at games in general.

Cool, thanks.

Just a small thing: is there a way to jump laterally between fora? It's not a big deal to go back up to the top of the tree, but my habitual method of navigation is using the drop-down box some forum software has towards the bottom-right. I'm really enjoying the new software in both aesthetic and functional terms, anyway.

I've really liked P. T. Anderson since I was first shown Magnolia, but there was some undefinable quality to There Will be Blood (at least, one that I couldn't define), that made it absolutely fascinating and invigorating for me. I don't really know a great deal about films or anything, but I was so excited after seeing it, and the teaser for The Master suggests that quality, whatever it was, was not a fluke. I find that pretty thrilling. Bank? Do you mean Ian Fleming, or am I misreading that?

I have a very serious complaint to make: You've removed the feature where I got to click the edit post button twice before it actually did anything. Half the clicks equals half the fun.

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Oh lord, this thread is a mess with the YouTube tags gone. Inspired by this, I finally got around to giving Amon Tobin a second listen (I'd given him half a listen about six years ago, I think). ISAM is a pretty good album. It gets a bit dull in the middle, but there are some great tracks at the start and end. I can't help but wonder whether the title has anything to do with databases, though.

I have a habit of only really paying attention to the off-topic sections of forums. I'm not really sure why.

In case you didn't catch it, I helpfully posted in the Mount and Blade thread in Multiplayer Networking. That may have been the wrong venue.

Well I'm glad you posted it here. For some reason I barely ever check the games bit of this games messageboard.

Fascinating. The slowed-down version with annotation has been taken down due to a copyright claim by the software developer, though, so you might want to save this one lest they go after it as well. Or perhaps I'm being weird. The top related video is this rather spooky piece: Pw552g5hYVg If it were more recent, it could have ended back in Japan, giving it an unpleasant cyclical feel.

Internet Relay Locution.

No, that's Miffy. For some reason I find it really strange to see a photo of my desk on another monitor. Returning to the thrilling subject of multiple-monitor set-ups, I do get the value, and it's an idea I've found appealing for a long time; I'm just surprised with the rapidity with which it's apparently become commonplace (or with the abundance of instances I've recently encountered, anyway). Up until recently I've viewed it as quite an extravagant arrangement (particularly outside of specialized technical contexts), but all of a sudden it would appear I'm the one bozo who missed the extra monitors bus. I've been toying with the idea of getting one, but I do so little productive work on my home computer it'd be a fairly pointless expense, and although people say that I could moan for one at work, I'd have to make a case for why they need to spend that money, and my conviction would be thoroughly undermined by my knowledge that I get along just fine without. It would be cool, though. I'd quite like to have a vertically-aligned second monitor. I can do that with my home monitor, but it'd be a bit silly for my primary display. Besides, as I just said, I don't really do any work at home. Also, I remapped my stupid non-media keys (website, e-mail and whatever) to volume control, because that's way more useful.

Rather than all of that, what bothered me most about Cabin in the Woods was the supposedly witty dialogue right at the beginning. I can't stand that stuff. It made me want them all to die. Perhaps that was the point.

THAT PIECE OF WOOD HAD BETTER BE AN ANIMAL.

I've recently been listening to Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons by Blonde Redhead quite a lot. There are two vocalists for the band, so I've included an example of each: naJkQ1PeBcM vc6zrxHO2DA Actually, it's possible all three band members do vocals, but since two of them are identical twins, I don't think there'd be any discernible difference between them. I came to the album through this Third Eye Foundation remix of "For the Damaged": Yp3580zvtXg

Seriously, is the whole world suddenly multi-monitor? I'm even in the minority at work in my single-monitoredness, and only one of those people is an art or programming guy (he is both). I guess I'd better show my desk: IN THIS IMAGE: One monitor No direct sunlight, despite it being a glorious day outside A horrible wobbly desk that I can't get rid of because it belongs to the flat A MacBook Air (I had to blow my bonus on something, and I was fed up with how slow netbooks are) Three sets of headphones (one for voice chat, one for the laptop, and one because I used to just plug the laptop set into the front audio port on the desktop PC, but that had outrageous interference, and there's no way I'm going to keep crawling around the back of that thing every time I want to swap from one to the other) Some speakers that I don't use because they're shit A giant tub of some cream stuff my mum lent me when I had painfully dry hands around Christmas 2010 (I should probably return that) Some Pepto-Bismol from when I was sick twice in the night but decided to go to work the next day anyway, because I am an idiot An extended battery for my phone which I can't use because the case the company I work for makes for my phone doesn't bloody fit it A notepad with a bunch of Fez transliterations on it "Swedish in Three Months", which probably hasn't even been looked at in three months (I would like to make it clear that I never expected to learn a language in three months, but had read that it was good anyway) A bunch of other assorted paper-based junk A photo of my nephew when he was smaller, because somebody had given me a photo frame and I didn't know what else to put in it Two external hard drives that are theoretically for backups, but which are both entirely full and which I can't be bothered to manage (the one that's actually plugged in apparently has 932 kB free of its 1.81 TB capacity) A wireless mouse (in its pouch) that I got for my laptop (when my laptop was still a netbook) because somebody showed me one and I thought it looked pretty neat, but which I never use because trackpads are fine, and I don't generally use laptops at desks for anything other than watching video while I do something at my main PC, anyway A very cheap keyboard A comparatively expensive mouse A big Portal mouse mat that replaced an identical big Portal mouse mat when my nephew slightly damaged one of the corners, and my stupid obsessiveness couldn't stand it any more Other things about which I have nothing to say As an aside which I think is hilarious, but which probably isn't if you don't know the guy, and which might not even be if you do, I'm keeping the MacBook Air a secret from someone at work, because he has a vitriolic distaste for Apple, and I couldn't face the passive-aggressive indirect hectoring I'd get about it. What amuses me is both how ridiculous he is, and how petty I am for maintaining this absurd charade. What's that? You only wanted a photo, not my whole bloody life story? TOUGH.

Solid Snake does that, too.