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In Praise of Boredom

This was originally going to be a video pod-cast but once i fired up the video editing software i realised my beard was so large i resembled Tom Hanks in that film where he shouts at a football, or was it a vollyball i've never seen it so i don't know. So after i finished this i plan to shave it off and in doing so probably lose a couple of pounds of weight and considerable strain on my neck. Anyway Boredom, it got me thinking. Of course the main reason it got me thinking was because i was so bored that i could only think about being bored. I wander if i have said the word bored enough yet, i think you get the point. The internet is the home of the bored man these days, where as in the past a book or the wireless might have sufficed the modern man only the internet will do when it comes to relieving the most natural of mans emotions. Mostly the internet delivers, it has such wide ranging delights such as this or indeed this (i promise i am not ricrolling you guys). There comes a time in every students life thou when the internet loses its gloss, what you once thought was a wonderful resource for enriching your life, 100% more informative than mere books and 1 million time more interactive than watching tv. You realise it for what it is, a collection of other bored people, just look at facebook thats just a socail network of millions of users around the world staring at computer screens being a bit bored. Come to think of it you have to be incredibly bored to even be reading this. Frankly I had to be incredibly bored to write it. Which brings me round me to my point. Boredom is the most beautiful of human emotions because it is the one that makes us create or enjoy, the one that makes us try and improve are lives even if it is  for the sake of not being so bored you tear your own eyes out.

Just re-read that last bit, i sounded a bit well... Self help book. More posts soon

bored:adj. - Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; Tired of the world.

In praise of........... A technology free week

Due to the barge trip and having to travel straight to a wedding there after i have been without my computer for a whole week ( and mostly without my phone). Now due to my unemployed status and unhealthy addiction to a certain MMORPG, i spend a hell of allot of time in front of my little black box of tricks. It contains my music, my videos, and most importantly the internet, the most important technological advancement in my life time. To not have this for a week, was re-markable refreshing, dont get me wrong i am not about to run away and live in a cave, as you can tell as i am currently sitting at my computer smashing away at my keys as usual. But it did make me me long for the days when scoial networking consisted of a drink with your mates, and for that matter your friends where counted by the number of people who had seen you be sick, not in a number on face-book ( yes.. i hate social networking websites). i am beginnig to sound like out of those old people who say " Back in my day, we didnt have telephones, we got by with smoke signals, now those where the days" so dont misunderstand me i am not about to throw away my laptop, or phone , or psp and ds, however i might try not to be glue to it every five seconds. i might even give up WOW. Now that is crazy talk....


Ps: Anybody who read's the guardian will know i have nicked the "In Praise of...." idea form the comment pages, but who cares Im lazy

Barge, the review

When the idea of the anime society barge holiday was first thought of i am pretty sure i was drunk, also i am pretty sure i thought at the time it was an awesome but utterly ludicrous idea. which all in all seemed to be a good pre curser to the actual trip, drunk, awesome and ludicrous. I wont go into everything that happened, Mainly becuase i cant remeber much ( damn you vodka) and partly because what happens on the Barge STAYS ON THE BARGE, (i feel your pain rupert). Some of the more interesting moments include Matt falling in (sorry my fault) Mike launching him self off a barge to have a fight ( "mike performs Leaping attack") and Aaron piloting the barge the drunkest i have ever seen a man ( and then vomiting for 16 hours afterwards). I was plesantly suprised with the ammount of fun i had with the actauly boating stuff, the locks in particallar where good fun, but as matt pointed out to me it was probably to do with the fact we where dicking about. whislt we did venture out into the wider world the most fun was had in the nights on the barge, in particular ring of fire and semi naked Wednesdays as-well as the best 17 man version of "Got to catch them all" ever heard by man. I would certainly reccomend the trip to anybody who is interested in doing somthing a little different to the normal city break.

Resident evil 4 review

Review of the wii version of Resident Evil 4 , only a million years behind the internet and bad quality 

I'm on your train.. Stealing your internetz

Im on my way home (Via london), I booted my mac up and it popped up with a little message "Do you want to connect to wireless network 'Nattrain wireless' accept?" well of course i do, so now im on a train, on the internet, which is pretty awesome if you ask me, its not terribly quick ( lag of 2000 on wow) but it does the job and its novel begin on a train and the internet. With the proliferation of wi-fi the internet and therfore infomation is becoming more and more moblie, but there is a certain satifcation to be had in the english countryside hurtling pass me at 100 miles an hour as i check my email or kill trolls. Anyway i thought while i was on the train i would review it. 

Train ( National Express.. i think)

  

I will review the train in the following aspects , put forward by the ICITR (International Council of Internet Train Reviewers) 1) Comfort 2) Speed 3) Scenery 4) L337 H4XX0RZ SKILZ.

1) Comfort. Well the train seems a little old, but i think the seats are new, because there really wuite comfortable, there sort of slightly bucketed so whilst they dont hug the contours of my body the gentley hold it, like im sitting in the palm of a giant. Leg rooms not great thou, and im traveling backward which i dont enjoy, so it will have to be marked down. 7/10

2) Speed. 2 1/2 hours to london i think, which isnt bad , i think im on the east coast main line and there arnt many stops (4) so pretty good, in fact now i take the time to look out the window we are going pretty quick and there hasn't been any delay yet. On the other hand the french have trains that can go 400 mph so this isn't really much. 8/10

3) Sencery, well its flat, its boring , its fields, its England. England does seem incredibly dull, endless green followed by the same style housing development. Maybe its just the midlands, but it does inspire me at all. 2/10

4)L337 H4XX0rZ SKILZz. Well it has the internet, thats pretty awesome. 9/10

Final Score : 6.5, good but Unremarkable Train

Controller Review

Controller review:

(Sorry the picture quality was bad the camera's poor and i did it t midnight)

Uni has started again...

University has started up again, well sort of ive had a intro lecture but actually teaching doesn't start for a bit. This post was first started on Bastard Chris's laptop ( or should i say Failtop)  however first  it froze halfway through the 2nd sentence and then when i finally got it going again, i wrote 2 words before i got the blue screen of death. Heap of junk Dell. Lots to do today , including getting chris a new pc, cleaning my room, cleaning the kitchen, shopping for food, helping out at the Give it a go, doing my clothes washing. Not to mention playing through MGS2 and watching/reviewing various anime. oh by the way if you read this on a semi regular basis i suggest getting a rss reader ( the online one i use is google reader) its really easy to use just click the rss icon on this page and copy it into reader and it will tell you when I've updated ( i suppose you already know that but what the hell)  why view 10 pages when you can view. Well thats it for now, maybe a post on the political party conference's or maybe a review on anime soon who knows..... thank fuck i am not using that shitty Dell

Opposition is an easy job

I think Minge feels a little bit starved of the political limelight, with Flash (thats my new nickname for GB) hogging most of it with meetings with Thatcher (boo his) and David Cameron hogging the rest of it with the various Tory cock ups. So in grand (and foolish) bit of political grandstanding the Lib Dem's have announce that they thing Britain should have a referendum on british membership the European union, get the details here ( you would think i work for the fucking bbc). Which i imaging strikes a cord with certain parts of the public, the problem i personally have this is that its the sort of thing that only the Lib Dem's can get away with because there not in any sort of position to gain proper power so they can claim anything they want about referenum and policy without ever having to think about the repercussions . But i credit the public with enough common sense to see through such plans. Having said that your always going to get this with a multi party system, and Britain's politics is a little better for it. i suppose i could pour over the pro's and con's of the European union, and the multi party system aswell, but instead i will just say to the idea of a referenum on the memebership.........

                                            (this image is to beautiful not to use)

Flash ....aaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Is it me or is this in fact the best political slogan of all time. One of the reasons i like it is that it is a clever attack on the grandstand politics of David Cameron, and also a clear break from the headline grabbing nature of the Blair years. But the real reason i like it is that its a beautiful pop culture reference to Savior of the universe, Flash Gordon. There will be those who say it says little about Labour politics, but who cares its vaguely humorous. 

Just a little update. More will follow

Kitten and me... Rational me

Hey a small video about the workings of my inner mind. Not particular interesting just something for me to do. Kitten steals the show. If you want something actually interesting go here It’s Charlie Brokers site:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/charlie_brooker/index.html

The article titled all in the mind is the one I am on about, was in today’s G2 worth a read

My youth

This should have been up a week ago,... but im lazy so there. This is all about my youth and how i spent it, and how i miss it and how im living in the past ......

Plato's the republic

2/2 yeah watch the post below first , ummmm plato... yeah , sorry about the quality its optimized for web so quality isnt great.

Hey, update in video form, the only reason ive done this is because its quicker than typing every thought in my head down into a broken mess, This is part 1 of 2 , was oridginally one post , but to bug for youtube

Wii saber.... usless but cool

Bored this afternoon, played around with my mac and wii mote, got it to work as a mouse and stuff, vaugely usful... then i found mac saber , thats damn cool, anyway here is the vid, and i might do my next update in video form to

Things that are great today.

"Under your leadership the Conservative Party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything" 

Tory MP Quentin Davies has defected to Labour, i would be smug..... hell im smug, not really because its a one more labour mp ( but that is great) but mainly because the reason he has given is the very reason i dislike David Cameron, because he stands for nothing , to use his words the problem with the conservative party is "It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda." Some of your may be thinking well its just proves the Labour has become right wing,  i think i proves that the labour party is the only party left with any soul left. i can seem to blog at the moment without sounding like a party political boardcast, is this because i am i actaully belive this or have i been brianwashed by the party.  

The Son of a preacher man!

NOTE: EDIT THIS ITS FUCKING AWFUL

Just a short post about the man who will on Thursday become the Prime minister of this

 country. Gordon Brown has been an integral part of the labour government the last ten years, part of all the success's  and all the failures. The best way to judge a politistion is on there record,  not on what they say or how they act, the poeple we elected are the to do a job and that job is to serve the population. To my eyes his record is the best of any modern politision, the amazing record of the longest sustainable period of economic growth in british history since records have been kept ( which is a while to say the least), people will look at that sentance and fail to realize its significance.  With him at  the head the UK economy has gone from the laughing stock of europe to one of the best dynamic economics in the world. How has he done this, i hear you cry, is he the best chancellor ever or was he lucky to inherit a growing economy and favorable conditions. Well , ill give you a quick run down of my opinon, Firstly the discision to give the bank of england inderpendence, i wont bother going into the in's and out's of why this was great, ( i only got a b in my economics a level) but put simply he took the power away from politisions who are genralist's and put it into the hands of experts who know what there doing. This disscision aswell as others made means britain has the philospher's stone of non-infationary growth.  No 15% interest rates , no boom and bust just steady growth for the entire time. Also this growth coupled the investment in public sector has lead to the lowest unempolyment rates for a long time (early 70's).  Yes the economy has was in a decent state when he inherited it but it was realtivly unstable, and yes the tax system is no more complex, but so are our lives. Thats all well and good the papers will cry but what is he like as a person..... i couldnt give a fuck if im honset. because its not about how nice someone is or what the hair is like , its about how good they are at there job, and so far hes been pretty darn good.