| Why did I buy the the CHEAP Brain Tumbler? |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|09:53 pm] |
Today is Sweetmorn, the 8th day of Discord in the YOLD 3175
There is a direct to DVD sequel to Donnie Darko out in May. It is entitled S.Darko and stars the youngest daughter of the Darko family (you know, the member of the dance group Sparkle Motion). Richard Kelly (writer/director of the original film) says: "To set the record straight, here's a few facts I'd like to share with you all -- I haven't read this script. I have absolutely no involvement with this production, nor will I ever be involved." (Not that Richard Kelly is some kind of quality guarantee considering the less then stellar things I have read regarding Southland Tales. Anyone care to comment on that project?).
Surely no good can come of this. |
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| I'm not God, but if I was, I'd be an angry God. |
[Nov. 8th, 2008|06:05 pm] |
Today is Boomtime, the 20th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174
Geek mojo get!
Or at least returning. This weeks' geekery; modding my PSP so that it no longer conforms to Sony's draconian lock-down. This (it turns out) is a fairly simple process (or at least is now) that only required the purchase of a "Pandora"-class battery and a few files. And now my PSP can play some of the LucasArts greats through ScummVM. |
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| This is not strange. Unusual, maybe eccentric in a quaint way, like dessert spoons |
[Oct. 29th, 2008|10:31 pm] |
Today is Boomtime, the 10th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174
I used to be able just compile a new Linux kernel and it would work. After three days (and managing to correct a few issues), I have temporarily conceded defeat on USB support and installed the stock 2.6.26 kernel.
I appear to have mislaid my geek mojo somewhere... |
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| This is Cake Town |
[Jun. 21st, 2008|04:12 pm] |
Today is Boomtime, the 26th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3174
BitTorrent is generally great, as I'm sure 99% of you know. Where it becomes less great is when the number of torrents being run simultaneously by different people in the house slow the Internet to a crawl/overload the router to the extent that there is no option but to reset it. There's also an issue of people downloading the same content as each other, which really is a bit unnecessary.
So: solution. I created yet another Linux machine (as with Mythical Channel 6) to act as a central repository for downloads/BitTorrenting in general, using this. Everyone's allowed just two torrents at a time, with the maximum download and upload speed locked. And in general this works fine. However; it has become clear that if you try torrenting multi-gig files comprising of a large number of files this also slows everything down horrendously and the server load shoots through the roof.... |
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| I am going to travel forward in time and scowl at you. |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|01:59 pm] |
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3174
Of interest to some would be the new look of the former Scientific Anglian; that place in Norwich which used to stock the Necronomicon and had a dark pit leading down to the dark recessed of the Earth where creatures beyond the ken of mortal men hide from the light waiting for the stars to once more be right.
( I have arrived ) |
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| The Original is Unfaithful to the Translation |
[Dec. 29th, 2007|09:44 pm] |
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My parents were given "The Big Taboo" today - which seems to be some weird hybrid of "Taboo" and "Pictionary" with a free cuddly toy. Is this the future of boardgames? No new ideas, existing games simply glued together to produce "new" games? How long until we see the weird hyrbid of "Scrabble", "Taboo" and "Rapidough" wherein you must construct your own "Scrabble" tiles out of the dough, but can never actually play the word on the card you've just drawn, but must infer it... |
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| The Half-Life Snickers |
[Dec. 7th, 2007|07:26 pm] |
The place: The Room of Twisty Fronds.
The people: Tim, Mark, Hester, Giles, Peter, Nick, Fry, Olly, Sam
Mark is currently playing Night of Bush Capturing. It is terrifying in strange new ways.
Giles has arrived in an Aperture science uniform, complete with a Hand-held Portal Device...
( This was a triumph... ) |
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| The Cake is a Lie |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|11:57 pm] |
Hark! What horrible sound carries upon the wind? Not the Call of Cthulhu this time, and even then that was mostly silent. No... this is more of a whisper... as though of a Whisperer in the Darkness.
*Narrator is then catches a glimpse of the horrific entity and promptly goes mad*
Anyway, bursting with frightening dialogue and sound effects, yet still remaining in glorious monochrome, the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's new film is revealed at last. There is scant information from their website at present, but you can view the Cyclopean trailer here or via youtube here.
There's also a recorded an At the Mountains of Madness radio drama. More details here, and they've even managed to record the horrifying noise of some vast Elder thing swimming below the surface of a frozen lake here. |
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| Carter, it was the un-namable! |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|08:48 pm] |
It has been theorized for some time that if anywhere in the world had a genuine copy of the Necronomicon it would have to be The Scientific Anglian on St. Benedicts Street in Norwich. For those not familiar it is a many years abandoned book shop, filled with mouldering books and generally looking like Lovecraftian set-dressing. It was something of a shame that it was cleared out last year and most of the sold off books were fairly mundane. Or were they...
You see; despite being bought and cleared out, nothing has been done with the shop as yet.. and a discovery today fills me with fear that that blasphemous tome may have been recovered at last, and the stars are nearly right! Within those walls, behind or beneath the other books lest it fall into the hands of an unsuspecting customer scarcely able to withstand the forbidden knowledge should that text be brought to light, lay a copy of that book. A chance glimpse through the doorway on my way to work has filled me with such dread, I was scarcely able to concentrate. The door was open! The wooden covering unlocked and the door to the shop itself had been unsealed, allowing me a hellish glimpse into the seemingly bare interior. Bare, save for the pit of unknown depths in the floor! The book has been found, and the allotted place uncovered! Even now they descend to where They slumber.
( It was the model he was using-and its background was merely the wall of the cellar studio in minute detail. But by God, Eliot, it was a photograph from life. )
Soon the stench of a thousand open graves will choke the air, terrible claws will pierce the night, and there will be only one thing any of us can hope for: a quick death. Save yourselves! The cult is too strong, and I'm sure they saw me. I can't shake the creeping dread that I was followed on my way to and from work.
Hark! What is that terrible rapping upon my chamber door? |
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| "You know what a mentor is?" "Half-man, half-beast" "That's a minotaur" |
[Jul. 10th, 2007|09:44 pm] |
Walking home from work yesterday I found a copy of the Private Eye Annual 2003 lent against a lamp-post with a post it stating that it was free, and to check inside the cover for details. It turns out that the book is one from bookcrossing.com, and hasn't had a very interesting journey as yet (from Devon to Norwich), so I intend to take it up to Leicester next month.
I also finally got American Gothic on DVD, which is inexplicably ordered in American broadcast order (the US didn't show four of the episodes, and broadcast some of the others totally out of order - leading to some very odd continuity problems. Channel 4, on the other hand, showed the series in mostly the correct order with the "lost" episodes reinserted in about the right places), rather then chronological order. This is (strangely) the opposite problem that The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has (unless you're paying out for the more expensive versions/whichever other option there is for the alternate ordering), although American Gothic was never intended to be shown out of sequence. Ah, if only the DVDs were the other way around. |
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| Confused |
[May. 27th, 2007|01:30 am] |
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A few days ago I ordered the complete series two of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Today a DVD shaped package arrived with an order slip stating it was for the Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD and the DVD of The Queen. I am at a loss to work out exactly what happened here. |
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| Insane and Incomprehensible Conspiracy Theories #4 |
[Feb. 28th, 2007|05:45 pm] |
Conspiracy: Alucard from Hellsing is in fact a Shoggoth.
Evidence: (Thanks to Kim for pointing this out)
Bodily Structure:
Alucard: actually an amorphous blob of black matter that can remould itself into pretty much anything.
Shoggoth: an amorphous blob of evil-looking black slime that can remould itself into pretty much anything.
Eyes:
Alucard: has a terrifying number of eyes.
Shoggoth: has so many eyes that by the time you've finished counting them it's already sucked your head off.
Limbs:
Alucard: can regrow arms, legs, head, entire body from nothing, or at least the afore-mentioned weird black matter
Shoggoth: constantly forming and breaking down fragmentary limbs and other vaguely recognisable body parts
Next Time: Did Elvis die? Was he really abducted by aliens? Or did he simply go of his own free will? |
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| Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) |
[Feb. 15th, 2007|11:26 am] |
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There are two people digging up the road out the front of my house. Presumably this now means that the wiring for our house will be fixed, the generator will be taken away, and not, for example, that there is some kind of Elder God ruin beneath out house, they're actually cultists and that the reason our power went out in the first place was that some Lovecraftian horror beyond the ken of mortal men has been chewing on our power supply. |
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| Find your next Anti-Read |
[Dec. 4th, 2006|11:26 pm] |
Read something? Want to know what you probably wouldn't like to read next? Then go here.
Not that it's guaranteed to work; typing in Good Omens produced a first result of Underworld by Don DeLillo, and a second result of... Good Omens under a slightly different title (that of the one on the title page with the cast lists). |
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