Wail!

Wail!
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

Deader than a dead thing what is very dead. In warranty though. Hopefully Microsoft's wonderful customer service will see me right.*

Ah well, at least I still have my gamecube - Wind Waker anyone?

* What? - they might be monitoring the interweb for references to RROD...

The enforcer...

This thing is totally awesome and what appears to be a favourite toy of the Hammersmith Police. They had one brought round specially to bash in my neighbours door to fix a washing machine leak.

The sergeant pulled rank and did it himself - smashy smashy.

The enforcer - yours for only £328.99

My New Bike...

This is my new bike. It is very very shiny and I am very excited...

Its very pretty...

Ms Cubo

Cubo
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

My new favourite thing is to wander off and leave ms cubo on my desktop looking around at things. This is really, really cool and a completely useful use of my time. I recommend everyone has a look!

Ask for a refund

Ask for a refund
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

Tfl make me laugh sometimes (when they're not making me cry.) Here's what happens when you search their website for a refund...
EDIT: I should probably mention now that having given up on the interweb and phoned them, they've given me my 4 quid back. So nice people really.

Memories...

Crikey, just been thinking about old games (hey - what else is there to do at 2.30 on a work day) and reminding my younger colleagues of the days when games consoles were made of wood...

Many a happy hour spent on this lovely thing on an old black and white portable telly.

The fireman one was my favourite.

Babies

Sage sticking his tongue out
Originally uploaded by spacmonster

Babies, Babies everywhere, and not a one to eat. So hungry. But seriously, they are everywhere at the moment, especially in Southampton where we spent the weekend. This is Sage, Laura and Dave's eldest (he's 5 weeks old...).

Still didn't make me feel as old as trying to play pub golf with a bunch of students. I'm fairly sure Mike is glad that I don't have any pictures of that to show Mother...

Shameless Plug

Regular readers of this blog (ha! the self delusion...) who appreciate my wry wit and incisive commentary on current affairs will be pleased to know that I have joined the world of official bloggers and will be holding forth on all things skills, animation and games related over at my brand new work blog.

Why don't you head over there and boost our hit counter...

Sensible World of Soccer

Aah - memories. Winning the European Cup with Stenhousemuir in their awesome purple shirts, signing Matt Le Tissier who could score from literally everywhere, Signing the same five cheap, speedy players for every club you manage (Valentine? Thomas Lagerlof anyone?)



Yep - I got Sensible Soccer off of XBLA and it feels like I'm twelve again, when footie games only used one button and were slightly more interesting than girls.*

Happy days.

* Alright - that last bit isn't true - more easily accessible than girls is probably more likely. In fact, just plain accessible is more likely, being that girls didn't like talking to me when I was twelve - probably because I talked about Sensible Soccer all the time...

Very, Very, Shiny

Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.

I really, really want's it.