Rules for living.

People often ask me: you're pretty good at living. How can I suck less at life?

I have five golden rules for people like you. The sixth one is less of a rule and more like a self-evident truth.

1: Always use your turn signals.
2: Never smoke.
3: Only put one space between sentences. Not two. Not three. One.
4: Hang the toilet roll so that the loose end hangs over the top, not dangling behind.
5: Everything in moderation, except where this conflicts with #2.
6: PC not Mac.

Would you like to play a game of chess?

ZX Spectrum: Chuckie Egg, Knightlore or Jet Set Willy
Atari 2600: nothing was that good
C64: Bubble Bobble / Rainbow Islands
Amiga: [Another World / Flashback / Out of This World] or Syndicate
NES: I never owned an NES
SNES / Famicom: Super Mario World
Megadrive / Genesis: Micro Machines or Sonic the Hedgehog
Gameboy: Tetris
Gamecube: Pikmin
DS: Mario Kart
Wii: Wii Sports or Boom Blox
Xbox: Burnout
360: CoD4
PS: PaRappa The Rapper
PS2: Guitar Hero / Katamari Damacy
PS3: Little Big Planet
PC: Half Life 1, Counter-Strike, BF2, Oblivion, LotRO or The Internet

Have you got enough tabs open?

Well have you, punk?

Been making use of the 'natural facilities' around me here in Boulder...like a bandit. The dog love, love, loves the creek and the off-roading is even subtle enough for the wife's discerning palate. Rock on, Boulderites, rock on.

I can hear like a dog. Or perhaps a mosquito.

Ultrasonic Ringtone Hearing Results: You are a dog

Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can't be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz

Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

Damnit - so that's why I'm such a light sleeper. My earballs are just TOO good.

Boulderado

Arrived in the San Francisco of the Mid-West. Like it! Again. Lots to do with the dog. And the wife. Hiking, trails, the creek that runs through town, biking, shopping, sweltering and eyeballin' stuff.

Been watching Battlestar Galactica - now on season 3. Fairly fun but no Wire. Some of the soap opera-y elements are grating after a while, with the obviously annoying characters doing their job admirably (I'm especially looking at you, Laura Roslin). What is it with this "Dexter's wife" syndrome that afflicts much of contemporary American TV drama these days?

Unsure what to watch next. If you know me, you know I *loved* Skins - I don't know what to follow that up with though. Suggestions?

All this TV from someone who professes disinterest in the medium, save for ads and documentaries. Honestly, what is the world coming to?

I may have to resort to playing outdoors more instead. So it's handy that I'm in Boulder then, isn't it?

Doom 2.0

It's taken long enough but here it is - finally - Doom's first blog post in Doom's first blog. Only about 10 years behind the curve there buddy.

Anyway - enough of that. Here are the aims of the blog:

work out the format for a real blog.
cover stuff that interests me - such as gadgets, games and gear.
perhaps even booze and sushi. and dog stuff.
use as an outlet to keep me writing.

That about covers it.

Doom.