Monthly Archives: March 2006

Lent 13: First Respec’

Given the amount of moaning and bad press that gets pointed towards public transport these days, I thought I would pass on my respect to First ScotRail/Buses and Glasgow City Council for the completely flawless journey to work this morning, … Continue reading

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Lent 12: Fugitive Hunter

A bit of light-hearted entertainment for you today – a kind of choose-your-own adventure web-based game where you get to chase fugitives. It’s quite fun, although I found that some of the puzzles seemed to require you to do completely … Continue reading

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Lent 11: Sowing a seed

Just wanted to throw out a quick idea that Al and I have been mulling over (well – I mentioned it to him once, and he agreed it was a good idea). In conjunction with the JediMoose anniversary party, we … Continue reading

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Lent 10: LRL06

I thought it was probably time, as part of my Lenten series, to put it a proper plug for LUGRadio Live 2006. Quite simply, this is the premier event in the UK for the Linux community (as opposed to Linux … Continue reading

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Lent 9: Liverpool bow out

Well – the game was a real disappointment last night. Not because we played particularly badly, but because we just couldn’t put the ball in the net. Again. I think Rafael Benitez has done wonders for the club, I really … Continue reading

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Lent 8: Soccer and Schadenfreude

There are a few things that really bother me in football at this time – excessive posturing/politics and the huge sums of money involved – that are both in danger of eclipsing the joy and skill of the game, and … Continue reading

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Lent 7: Getting things done

Sometimes it takes a day working from home to really get things done. Being at home gives me the advantage of being able to do all the lengthy, boring admin tasks on my own computer, while still working on ‘real’ … Continue reading

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A little bit of inspiration

…from the man who gave us, amongst other things, Babylon 5. Read it here. I always get encouraged by this kind of thing. Now where’s that pen… BigAl

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Lent 6: The BDP in Retrospect-o-vision

Well – it finally happened. 14 episodes and 1 film back-to-back. >13 hours of Firefly goodness. And it was good. The day started with a bunch of annoyance – neuro’s car had a flat, bagpuss_thecats cat was ill, supergingerman was, … Continue reading

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Lent 5: Getting there

Well – we’re 5 days in and still going. Looks like BigAl is matching me post-for-post too. I’m not sure that the ‘Moose has ever seen this much content! Hopefully we’ll keep up the quality along with the quantity. Given … Continue reading

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Lent 4: Remember IBXS?

No, not a typo for INXS, but rather Irn-Bru XS. You may have heard in the news that Barrs is releasing a drink called Irn-Bru 32 – Irn-Bru but with 3 times the caffeine – to compete in the Red … Continue reading

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He IS the law

So, when I was in Forbidden Planet yesterday buying Infinite Crisis 5 (and tremendous it was too) I noticed the second volume of “Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files”. Being an old 2000AD fan from way back I picked it … Continue reading

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Serenity RPG

Way back when I was a teenager I was quite into Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (amongst other Games Workshop stuff) and when I went to college/uni I moved onto other role-playing games (Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia and MechWarrior … Continue reading

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The JediMoose Effect

Sadly, YubNub.org has been down all day, which kind of makes my last post a bit pointless mrBen

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You know you’re a Cthulhu Geek when…

Someone puts two sets of candy teeth on the palm of their hand and you think “Hey cool, Y’Golonac!” BigAl

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Lent 3: And now for something useful

Actually, 2 useful things. First up, the useful discovery that, in WordPress, if you edit the Post Timestamp of your post (one of the options on the RHS when you write a post) and set it to a time in … Continue reading

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Bonus Post – BDP timings

For the folks who aren’t coming to all of the BDP, I thought I’d drop on a quick timetable for the day, so that they would know when to arrive 10:00 – Serenity (Pilot Episode) 11:30 – The Train Job … Continue reading

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Ahh, Infinite Crisis #5

Over the last wee while I’ve been keeping my comic buying to payday (the last Thursday of the month) as going in weekly was proving to be a bit on the expensive side as I would always pick up more … Continue reading

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Lent 2: I’ll cry if I want to

Actually I won’t, but it’s the only song lyric I know of that starts “It’s my birthday”, which it is And I’ve received a nice posse of books from the family – Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide from my … Continue reading

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You know you’re a comic book geek when…

You start listing your weekly pull list in a spreadsheet because you buy so many it’s hard to keep track. And because you always have it worked out several months in advance… Oh dear… (Inspired by this post) BigAl

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