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brutal legend
I haven't awaited a game this eagerly since GoW2. I preordered Brutal Legend immediately after playing through the downloadable demo, feverishly entering my details like a madman in the throws of a withdrawal I did not know lurked deep in my being. Now awakened it cannot rest and the online package tracking status of 'OUT FOR DELIVERY' has me ( Read more... ) -
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Well, going back to Oz is getting really close and now thoughts of seeing everyone again are permanently swimming around my head, crowding out work ideas and making me slip into happy daydreams. I was just staring happily at our office wall, the shadows from the tree outside cast on its wall enough abstract visual stimulus for me to unfocus my eyes ( Read more... ) -
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went to the world's biggest block party on the weekend which was pretty ace and saw ben folds play the piano with crushed aluminium cans on the strings which was rad. also, met some guy who needs a photographer for his local rag and wants me to be that guy. the last photographer died which makes me want to ask what kind of assignments they want me ( Read more... ) -
wherein I mourn not seeing a spain vs brazil final
I've just finished watching Spain vs the USA in the confederates cup. it's so weird to watch football with US commentators whose commentary is peppered with phrases from NFL and NBA on top of the standard sprinkling of time filling inanities. Some examples include ( Read more... ) -
Beastie Boys
This year we are really starting to get the hype about Chicago. I guess you need some time to explore a city but the lack of time and money (stupid intercontinental moving!) meant that last year it sort of just didn't happen for us. But this year has been different. Last weekend was the Chicago Blues Festival where events are held all over the city ( Read more... ) -
happiness at work and play
For a while now I have advocated some open source software over it's proprietary equivalents - for some clients a simple change away from MS Office can be a saving of over a million dollars per year (every year!) in licensing costs. I tell people that if they are that keen to get rid of their money, switch to Open Office and donate the money to a ( Read more... ) -
enjoy
6 months + 1900 frames + an idea = 1 very cool chalk board animation:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.
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stuff that happens
If the hours of my day are left with an impression of the events held therein then slicing through them you would see strange colours in a repeating pattern of late. Underscoring all of this for the past 24 hours would be a definitely brightening as mandellebrotte has arrived back in Chicago. But let me focus for the moment on the concentric rings of weirdness ( Read more... ) -
coming home
so as system admins and security experts lie awake tonight wondering what lies in wait for them as conficker hits the states sometime in the next few hours I thought that i should mention that I too will be spreading myself virus-like across the globe. taking advantage of what I can only describe as a coding mistake on their website providing ( Read more... ) -
puerto rico
just sat through an ad the jingle for which sings to you "nothings better than the bahamas" to which I say "nothing, perhaps except for puerto rico." 6 days people, expect photos!