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Frog Chorus
This piece is in response to a post by Gary Ray on the excellent Quest for Fun Blog http://blackdiamondgames.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/be-frog-tradecraft.html
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Hobby Games retail in the UK
This is long. Under the cut, I write a short essay about the very basics of bricks n mortar retailing of hobby games in the UK, since nearly all the sensible discussion of the subject, as well as a lot of waffle, is USA-centric. If you read this, and want to know more about any particular aspect, let me know in the comments and I'll do further ( Read more... ) -
New Year, new discipline
I am going to write regularly. I am going to write about whatever I feel I need to say. I'm going to *think* about a 'proper' blog, but I'll get the 'writing regularly' habit sorted first. I'm probably going to move this away from personal drama and advice, because I'm pretty sure LJ isn't as good a forum for all of that as it was, since I get the ( Read more... ) -
Today is bought to you by the letter R
Seen on the way in to the shop this morning. Gorgeous low flying Red Kite. Rainbow against very dark rainclouds. Rain as the wind brought the clouds in my direction.
Numpty count today: 2 so far
Nice people I like today: 3 so far
On balance, good? -
Upgoer Five description of my job, since it's going around
I run a shop which has games for people to buy. I tell them which are good games for them. People play games at the shop. They are not computer games, but the type of games you play around a table with other people. They can be easy or hard games and for grown ups or for children or both ( Read more... ) -
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Brass upholstery tacks. No clue as to why or what for, or why we would be a possibility as a vendor of said studs. -
Dalek!
Today, we had a Dalek, and it was brilliant.
This is the dalek on Youtube earlier this morningYoutube above was taken by one of the guys from the Sony Centre next door. I spent most of the day going 'this is so cool!'. The Dalek chased pigeons in the square, interacted with passers by, had an ongoing rivalry with the little electric street ( Read more... ) -
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It's been quiet for while on this front, but CDs for Kareoke Machines? -
Quackers
There were a couple of oddities amongst the pigeons hunched in the rain on my walk down the pedestrianized high street. I didn't have the wherewithal to take a photo on my phone, otherwise you'd have a picture of a pair of ducks under a cut here. -
Some of you are techy and may be able to help
The Monowall box that serves as our firewall and NATing device has packed up. This equals no internet at home. Either I need to pull out the box, install a small HD (not worth wasting more than 1GB on it, but bets are that you can't get an HD smaller than 4GB these days, I think the one D remembers in the server room is 8GB) grab the config file ( Read more... )