Randomly bouncing around Youtube a while back I stumbled upon the Ballad of Map Cap'n Tom...



( Spoilers for the Ballad of Mad Cap'n Tom, and nostalgic ramblings )

Housegroup was strange this evening - that's saying something given how bonkers our housegroup normally is! We ended up discussing no end of random topics from cat ownership to nuclear power plants ( Read more... )

The voteamabob once gain threw up the traditional pasta night games of Ticket to Ride and Dominion, so jonners99_uk did a bit more number-crunching and instead selected Scotland Yard and Galaxy Trucker as being the two games with the most first-choice votes. Perhaps the voteamabob app should take rankings into account when we eventually get round to writing it ( Read more... )

Today's random film is Red 0787, a roll of Kodak MAX 400-8 dating from the winter of 2006-2007. This one seems to have rather grainy photos - yes, it's an ISO 400 film and fast films do tend to have more grain, but this seems worse than usual. I know Nikon scanners are known to suffer from some aliasing with film grain but here the same noise is ( Read more... )

Church today had a strong anti-war message (swords to plowshares and all that - Micah 4:3) - it being Remembrance Sunday, this isn't surprising. This might actually be the first Remembrance Sunday service I've ever been to and taken part in - oh, when I was young we would all go to St John's BBH every week but elemnar and I would disappear off to whatever ( Read more... )

Scanning 35mm negatives is a tricky job - the default settings have a tendency to be very dull, with a poor colour cast and no detail in dark areas. Now, I can't be bothered with trying for a perfect scan but I'm certainly happy to tweak things a little to get a better result, and the easiest tweak appears to be to tell VueScan just what type of ( Read more... )

Current views on UK politics ( Read more... )

I envy those who can post on a daily basis ( Read more... )

Well, it's quickly approaching the time when I need to have decided just what I'm going to do next year. Do a Master's or go to work, stay in Brighton or move elsewhere ( Read more... )

As appears to be traditional, I have discovered that there's a bug in one of my submissions, after submitting it (previous ones include a non-functioning command in a text adventure that fortuantly isn't required to complete the game ( Read more... )