James

Wait a minute, I'll recycle the GTA thing that nobody uses.

I should be back for this one. In celebration, I'm taking you all to the park.

I think at one point this caused you to think that I had children. That was pretty weird for me. By kamikazee grenade, no less! What techno-god did you piss off? You're fucking cursed! Sometimes it works, sometimes it's a massive disappointment. This is the knife edge I live on. Thanks, though! My one was The Order of Magnitude. On the subject of Rock Band band band band band names, I also came up with the name for my friends' Rock Band band band band band: Gangbangers and Mash. It won't let us submit our scores online because of it. We hardly ever play, anyway.

I recently deleted a request from a name I didn't recognize. The moral of this tale is that it's probably a good idea to include an explanatory message unless you just played with the person or something.

I thought this was going to be some sort of precursor to the original story. A prequel, if you will.

Wait, it is? I can probably make it into London for Friday evening, but I won't be able to go to the expo itself until Saturday. I guess that doesn't really matter, unless somebody wanted to meet up during the day.

So we're a bunch of Nicks and Jakes? I must confess that I have on occasion confused Miffy and n0wak. Not often, but every now and then.

I was hearing about it on podcasts a few months back, and the concept sounded hilarious. I'm very interested.

Yeah, it was a very good evening. I'm glad we went out on such a high. It was also a pleasure to witness Marek's expert covert ops skills. Hopefully we'll see him again soon. In summary: Awesome. I looked up a couple of PHP functions! I'm the best!

I was educated there.

a) Idle Thumbs can lead to harder drugs I occasionally make references that my friends don't get, which is tedious for everyone. c) Sometimes I laugh at work, which makes my boss think podcasts are interfering with my concentration, when in fact it's extreme tiredness and lack of interest in the task at hand that's interfering with my concentration.

"Max Rebo" sounds like an alternative universe name for Chris Remo.

Don't waste your time working it out! Waste your time looking through the stupidly long list on this page instead! Or trust the button that uses a JavaScript function that apparently isn't especially reliable! Hooray!

I hereby renew my previous sentiments. I mean that much more sincerely than it sounds.

I'll be there, but I won't be next week. I feel you all need to know so you can prepare.

I finished Research and Development the other day. It was very good, but I was a little disappointed that it left the first person a few times towards the end. Also, if anyone else has trouble with the battery puzzle, try taking a step back from the cage. That's not a spoiler; it's just a way to avoid the physics messing things up repeatedly for you. Perhaps it was just an idiosyncratic instinct of mine to go right up to the damn thing. Anyway, I recommend it.

Is Idle Thumbs some sort of weird coincident magnet? Everyone keeps coming up with stories about stuff happening to them coinciding with Thumbs stuff. Or are we just prone to over-analysing and reporting every single insignificant little thing? Or am I imagining that this happens a lot more often than it actually does?

I'll be getting it for my Amstrad CPC464.

Read: a huge room of MASSIVE BABIES.

I was excited about somebody having the same experience as me, but then I realized it was just a spambot stealing my exact words. Damn.

Also of note: improper use of the word "cliché". On the Internet!

When I go to London with my friends we often end up hanging around Leicester Square, but that's because there's a pub there that one of them likes. So that's more of a comment than a suggestion. My knowledge of London is relatively poor, or extremely poor, when you factor in how near to it I live.

I live a short train journey from London proper, but will be in Sweden from this Wednesday (30th) to next (7th). If you do something the following weekend I would probably attend and be awkward, though.

Why does all this firetruck talk suddenly sound like a bunch of filthy innuendos? ***** Best of luck and my wishes to you and your wife, Wrestle.