Be Excellent To Each Other

Just watched 'Be Kind Rewind', starring Mos Def, Jack Black and Danny Glover, directed by Michael Gondry.

It was very funny, imaginative, 'wacky', but it also had a lot of heart and humanity that kept it appreciably grounded. The start might suggest it's another Jack Black 'I'm not like you! I like rock! What's your problem?!' gurnathon, but it's not, and he does pretty well in it. As does Danny Glover, as you'd expect. And also Mos Def! I was surprised. It's not 'OMG what a star-making performance', but everyone in it does well.

It made me laugh and smile often, and it takes a lot to do that at the moment. So if you're feeling glum, and want some well-intentioned silliness, 'Be Kind Rewind'. Ahaha.

No idea, a silly way of asking you to email it to them perhaps?

What is a 'soft copy' of my 'CV'?

That's what I thought. I now have to go on a memory stick hunt, and I BET Mrs A has taken hers with her to Brum today...

It is an electronic copy, yes. I've had great sport in my time sending my LaTeX typeset CV through to recruitment consultants as PDFs or GIFs. They hate that.

I have a kicking CV template if you want it.

CD-R?

Do we have any kind of Photos thread that isn't challenge related, do folks know? edit: I think not.

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A bunch of those little mini ones the size and shape of business cards would be aces. You could just hand them out. It'd be great until some recruiter puts them in his or her slot-loading drive in their laptop and it gets fucked into a cocked hat. That'd be sure to get you the job!

I just read this interview with comic book artist Dave Gibbons which contains an interesting little tidbit regarding the Broken Sword series:

http://www.denofgeek.com/comics/59800/i ... _more.html

"How involved are you in the development of new videogames?

I've been a little bit involved with an old friend of mine called Charles Cecil of Revolution, who are a respected games publisher – they do adventure games. I've been helping him recently to update some resources to convert a game called Broken Sword to some new platforms. It's largely drawing on my skill as a comic-book illustrator, rather than any great knowledge of videogames. So my involvement, I suppose, is peripheral."

According to the Revolution Software forum FAQ:

http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php? ... ds_project:

"Rumours have been circulating about the next Revolution game for a long time. Towards the end of 2007, Tony Warriner (tonyw) stated on the forum that details of a new game are on the way. Charles Cecil mentioned in a telephone interview with One Life Left (March 18, 2008), that a "DS project" is in the works, and more details will be available soon. Information about the project is currently under wraps until the publisher gives the go ahead to divulge more information."

Meanwhile, a story printed in British magazine N-Revolution (via Cubed3: http://www.cubed3.com/news/9950) states that Revolution are working on a Broken Sword DS game that "[is] not a straight port. It's not even a Director's cut with extras thrown in for the sake of it. It may have had one of the most stunning openings of any game in history, but the new Broken Sword will go back in time. It will look at George Stobbart's life before an explosion in a Parisian cafe rocked his world. And it will let us see what the stunning Nico was up to prior to reporting on the intriguing events which unfolded throughout the original game."

According to a post by Tony Warriner on the Revolution forum (http://www.revolution.co.uk/_forum.php? ... n=1&page=1), "all the effort has gone into creating the new content, in the same style, rather than re-doing the original", so this wouldn't appear to be a complete reworking of the game's graphics but hey, it's more Broken Sword, right? They could get a 4-year-old to draw it in crayon and I'd still be throwing money at them to get it on the day of release.

Incidentally, may I just draw your attention back to Dave's original quote; he refers to "new platforms" plural, so let the rampant speculation begin; personally, my money's on PC and Wii, a combination many are already calling "PWii".

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That has to be the worst PhD thesis ever*. I'm not even sure if it's a real thesis. OR indeed that you're a real doctor. Or even that someone could have such an offensive name as Richard Gaywood.

I want some tshirts from http://www.no-friends.com but am umming an ahhing if I can be bothered. Mrs A is banging on about 'import taxes' or some such, but 20 dolalr for a tshirt and 16 dollars for shipping seems reasonable. You can buy them in the UK but they are more expensive.

I do not believe you meant to link to what you linked to.

Also also: I cannot believe someone clicked that!

I want some tshirts from http://www.no-friends.com but am umming an ahhing if I can be bothered. Mrs A is banging on about 'import taxes' or some such, but 20 dolalr for a tshirt and 16 dollars for shipping seems reasonable. You can buy them in the UK but they are more expensive.

A lovely young lady gave me a birthday card with William Blake's "Ghost of the Flea" on it.

This makes me happier than probably any of you would expect.

Unless, of course, you've bothered to click the WWW button down there.

That would be perfect if it just finished with a small note about getting banned from xbox live.

Tomorrow, actually, but it was better to celebrate on the saturday. Thanks everyone though!

And, er, didn't there used to be a website linky thing at the bottom of the post? I thought that was why it asks for a website in the profile. Now, I'm confused...