Bits and Bobs

NervousPete · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 0:16

CUS wrote:

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.

I quite liked it, had some beefs with it, but overall its charm won me over. Mos Def is a strange one in films, every time I start watching him in each film he's in, it's as if he's setting out to specifically annoy me with his mumbling flailing acting - but then he sort of weirdly wins me over half way through and I end up liking him. Every time.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:57

I'm listening to Tamsyn Greig read something on Radio 4. About to pretty up CV in preparation for popping over to Cheltenham racecourse for an 'open afternoon' type affair where they tell people about jobs, and, undoubtedly, how cool they all are, and others beg for employment. I'm not looking forwards to it. Followed someone on a ZZR400 almost all of the way home through the country roads. Crikey, they were fast. Work (current job) really doesn't mater to me anymore and I'm emo about the future today.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:54

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

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16635

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

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6607

A copy of your CV engraved on talc, gypsum or any other substance with a Mohs value of less than 3.5

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:57

markg wrote:

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

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...

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:00

MaliA wrote:

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

Well, a hard copy is printed out, so I'm guessing they mean an electronic copy.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:03

Tissue or wet paper.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

MaliA wrote:

markg wrote:

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

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.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:22

richardgaywood wrote:

MaliA wrote:

markg wrote:

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

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.

Appreciated, but I'm quite pleased with CV atm. The little Tesco Express doesn't sell sticks so it's going to be a case of cart laptop t PC world, buy stick, transfer data, lock laptotp in boot of car.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:28

CD-R?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Grim... wrote:

CD-R?

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!

CUS · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:31

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

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:33

Team America: World Police

Channel 4: Saturday 10pm.

If you haven't seen it, you MUST watch it.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26064

CUS wrote:

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

I think there is one around somewhere - right near the beginning, but I can't find it.

Why don't you start one, CUS?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Must... resist... breaking... down... (for your $120, you get the game, a Vault Boy figure, a Vault-Tec lunchbox, and this:

Sheepeh · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2320

Oh. My.

That is one of the bestest game-related merchandise things EVER.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 16:33

"Sorry. This item can't be shipped to your selected destination."

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 17:00

My web site has an RSS feed.

feed://www.inverty.com/rss.xml

Thunderbird says it's not valid. Anyone got any clue why?

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 17:06

Line 1, column 26492: Missing atom:link with rel="self"

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= ... %2Frss.xml

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

I had an interview for a library job this morning. Hurrah!

I think I got it, but I thought that about the museum, and they gave it to some internal nob or other. Gits. Here's hoping.

Annoyingly, the buses in warwickshire are so unbelievably shite that, despite aiming for a bus that was due to reach the library forty minutes before my interview, and despite getting to the stop twenty minutes early, and despite waiting for just under an hour, I still had to go home and call a taxi to get to the interview.

I now have no money for food for two weeks. Eep. Still, we've got a shitload of pasta and enough supplies in already to go the distance, so it will be okay. Just fucking irritating though, eh? What do you reckon are my chances of getting a refund off the bus company?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 18:30

At the very least I'd put in a complaint about that.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

I suspect under their terms and conditions they owe you nothing technically -- but a well written, polite letter of complaint would probably get you some vouchers or something as a goodwill gesture.

sinister agent · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 7046

Excellent stop motion art thing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

This is bloody brilliant, really inventive and full of character, and it's made me laugh several times. Top notch.

Interestingly, there's a newfangled bus route here that has a scheme in place where they offer to refund your cab journey if their bus is more than 30 minutes late. It is a legally binding offer, though they've kept quiet about it. However, it only applies to a specific route, which wasn't the one I used. Hmph.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 18:51

Grim... wrote:

Line 1, column 26492: Missing atom:link with rel="self"

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url= ... %2Frss.xml

I'm blaming Blogger.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

richardgaywood wrote:

Grim... wrote:

CD-R?

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!

Indeedy do. Not worth the money.

In fact I have a load in my cupboard complete with slip and jewel cases that I'm happy to flog off cheap or do a swapsie for. I'll never ever use them.

Or if someone wants just a few, I'd send some free as long as you cover postage.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

In a rare twist, I've had too much to drink. It's great for hayfever, mind you.

tossrStu · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1326

I emailed Kotaku about this a few days ago but they don't seem to be interested so here you go:

Quote:

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".

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:27

'Dr' Gaywoods signature wrote:

my blog - fscked.co.uk | Eggwan.com | AKA as DrGlyndwr | Yes, I'm a real doctor

Click on "Yes, I'm a real doctor"

'Dr' Gaywoods 'thesis' wrote:

Lorem ipsum etc

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.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mr Dave wrote:

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.

ERROR 404 FOOTNOTE UNDEFINED.

Also: yes, I need to write that bit of my new homepage. It's on my ToDo right next to sorting out my LinkedIn page.

Also also: I cannot believe someone clicked that!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:08

yesterday was surprisingly good. now I need to find some yank to buy and post me stuff.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:10

What stuff?

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:27

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.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Quote:

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.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:40

Dudley wrote:

Quote:

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.

Crikey, no.

http://www.nofriends.com

order 2 tshirts coming in at 54 dolalrs including 17 dollar shipping.

CUS · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 13:17

Richard Gaywood certainly gets around.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8655

CUS wrote:

Richard Gaywood certainly gets around.

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

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 14:22

richardgaywood wrote:

Also also: I cannot believe someone clicked that!

I didn't mean to, I just clicked on the browser window to get focus, and in the process got the link. And wondered quite how I'd ended up on the page until I spotted the link in your signature.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 22:21

MaliA wrote:

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.

If you cross your legs and hold it in long enough, those charges may waft away. Say goodbye to conveniently priced £17.99 bargains though...

http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/?p=363

Derek Joists · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:16

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.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:39

It's your birthday Ste?

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:41

Happy Birthday Ste.

Today is nice and sunny.

I'm about to embark on job applications. Hooray.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26064

Derek Joists wrote:

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.

Happy Birthday, Derek/Ste/ofnorthernjoists. And what www button? I cannot see one.

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:44

I really should be doing that as well.
Just as soon as I've had my regular thrashing on the squash court, gone to the supermarket, hoovered the living room...

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:44

Happy Birthday Ste.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:50

Happy Birthday Ste! Now celebrate your birthday the way William Blake would have wanted you to, by er, having visions and going slightly mad.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Joans wrote:

CUS wrote:

Richard Gaywood certainly gets around.

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

Despite all the hoohah about my Live banning, my pagerank is still lower that this other guy. Hardly fair, I mean, what's he done lately? Nothing, is what. Bastard.

And also: Happy Birthday Ste'!

Derek Joists · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 14:05

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...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Derek Joists wrote:

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...

We review all the websites in everyone's profile, and if there are any that are offensive, we remove the links.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

JOKE.

No idea why it's not showing up. I'll do some nosing about.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 16:26

I have:

Been to supermarket and played 'trendy dad'
Watched MotoGP
Applied for job
Fixed sunglasses

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