I’ve got it. I understand now. Sense is made. Logic won out. I get it. Now, why would Dingus Features, the fellow leading the opposition come out with fundamentalist, offensive, load of tripe like this… all the damn time? I couldn’t understand it. He’s alienating so many voters. Like, say, almost all self-respecting women. Bet [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Rohan’s rules for writing science fiction that won’t piss him off: No DNA-changing virii or biological weapons that mutate people without killing them. … and CERTAINLY no changing them back afterwards. No plot-convenient memory-erasing to wipe either people’s memories of the events of the episode. No plot-convenient time travel or quantum-neutrino alternate-dimension wibbledy-fuck to completely [...]
It’s just downright painful watching dumb people trying to use Macs. Now, OS X does NOT behave like Windows (95/98/ME/2K/XP/Vistake/7). Why should it? Do you expect GNOME or KDE to behave like Windows? No. So why the hell sit down in front of a Mac and complain that it’s not the same? It’s a whole [...]
So, one of my other projects finally came to fruition – my gaming podcast, Restore Restart Quit. RRQ is a 90 minute podcast (there-abouts, anyway) with a view to waxing philosophical about games and gaming. Each episode we pick a serious gaming-related topic (for example, our opening subject is ‘Gaming as a Unique Medium’) and [...]
“What a fascinating modern age we live in.” — Jack Aubrey It dawned on me today just how much life has become like Star Trek, in almost every way that matters – except bald men commanding starships on diplomatic missions to worlds where all creatures are humans with crinkley foreheads, funny ears and/or facial tattoos. [...]