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Grill — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:11:00 +0000

Best. Deodorant. Advert. Ever.

Fafblog is BACK! YAY!

Grill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Fafblog! back to save the universe. “Screw this dump!” says Giblets. “This universe is old and fat and smells like smelling and Giblets is busting out!”“Should we go over the wall or take the tunnel?” says me. I been diggin a tunnel.“Nuts to the tunnel!” says Giblets. “What we do is we make like we’re sick. Then when God comes in to check on us we punch im in the liver an run out the door!”“They’ll be on the lookout so we’re gonna need disguises if we wanna make it the resta the way,” says me. “If we bop Europe [more...]

Classic Pepys

Grill — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:04:00 +0000

Sunday 26 March 1665 (Pepys’ Diary) At noon home to dinner, my wife and I (Mercer staying to the Sacrament) alone. This is the day seven years which, by the blessing of God, I have survived of my being cut of the stone, and am now in very perfect good health and have long been; and though the last winter hath been as hard a winter as any have been these many years, yet I never was better in my life, nor have not, these ten years, gone colder in the summer than I have done all this winter, wearing [more...]

Ego-Blogging

Grill — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:50:00 +0000

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar Re-review // MMO /// Eurogamer LOTRO looks absolutely, astoundingly right. Characters look correct, the world is beautifully crafted and enemies match the best drawings that the Tolkien Legendarium has attracted in sixty years. The Shire looks as good as the movies, Bree (though bigger than we expected) is gloriously rickety, like an old medieval English town, and the build of the Elven and Dwarven towns nail ethereal and indomitable respectively.

My re-review of LOTRO is up, at last. If you’ve never been arsed enough to read any of my writing and [more...]

Shuffle Sex

Grill — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:00 +0000

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and languageI think my most embarassing one has to be the entire Best of Bonzo Dog Doodah Band following in quick sucession – nothing kills the mood like the Intro & Outro (“Please welcome – Adolf Hitler on vibes”) and then trying to save a situation by miming to “In The Canyons of Your Mind”. I seem to remember the lovely girl in question (“And arent;t they all lovely girls, Ted?”) collapsing into unrecoverablew fits of giggles for some reason…

E-Cigarette

Grill — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:39:00 +0000

Heh. Reminds me of the fags in Fifth Element – y’know, the ones that are all filter and no ciggie and are in a red box warning you of imminent death on the wall. (Thanks Alec!)

…Watchmen Character Art

Grill — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:44:00 +0000

!!!!!Watchmen …to help pass the time, here is your first look at some of the Watchmen characters.

The Smell of Space

Grill — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:52:00 +0000

HSF – International Space Station It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. That is the smell of space.

Magarita The Movie

Grill — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:02:00 +0000

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM Mikhail Bulgakov’s supernatural novel The Master and Margarita is being adapted for the screen by Stone Village Pictures and producer Scott Steindorff, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Master and Margarita begins in pre-World War II Moscow, where the devil appears as a mysterious man who insinuates himself into a literary crowd. Amid a series of deaths and disappearances, the devil brings together the title characters, a despairing novelist and his devoted but married lover. The story shifts to the setting of the master’s rejected novel, Jerusalem [more...]

Grow Flu

Grill — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:24:00 +0000

GROW nano vol.3

While I’ve been sat at home, cultivating this Flu (last night I thought I’d try that old party game of “Waking Up Every Hour Shaking Like A Leaf”) I’ve been playing the lastest in the excellent ten-minute GROW series, which Alec pointed out.It seems the series creator On is similarly bed-bound and has made a excellent illness-recovery game. Ace, give it a try. (Cough, splutter, wheeze.)

One Flu Over The Cuckoo’s Lungs.

Grill — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:45:00 +0000

Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, faeces and blood.

F*ck you, G*d. I’ve not been near any of that shit which isn’t my own and yet you let me lie here, gibbering at the pretty elves dancing on the ceiling, while my lungs try and escape through my mouth.

I wish I believed in you so I could blame you, you massive arse.

Family abt 1888 (2)

Grill — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:03:00 +0000

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Family abt 1888 (2), originally uploaded by Dimitri Kissoff.

The Welsh side of my family, circa 1888.

Harlan Ellison on the WGA Strike Settlement

Grill — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:36:00 +0000

Pinched in it’s entirety from Warren Ellis’ blog. Awesome vitriol.Warren Ellis » Harlan Ellison On The WGA Strike Settlement

HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT

YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO RE-POST THIS ANYWHERE:

Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won theWriters Guild Award four times for solo work, sat on the WGAw Boardtwice, worked on negotiating committees, and was out on the picketlines with my NICK COUNTER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHE$$$ sign. You may haveheard my name. I am a Union guy, I am a Guild guy, I am loyal. Ifuckin’ LOVE the [more...]

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Grill — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:54:00 +0000

deludedangels: 02/2008 jess and i have gone swimming. rich is there too, alternating taking work phonecalls with doing butterfly strokes. in the corner of the shallow end of the pool is The Greek from season 2 of The Wire, eating an omelette with fennel in it. i am translating the season into Italian for the producers, and his next line is meant to be “look what they put in my omelette – why do they put fennel in an omelette?” and I am shocked. “Do you mean to say the writers have presumed that an elderly gentleman of European origin [more...]

NOTICE, South Bank, London

Grill — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:44:00 +0000

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NOTICE

To Shop Assistants

STORE MUST OPEN PROMPTLYat 6.00 a.m. until 9.00 p.m. all the year round.-STORE must be swept, counter, base shelves and showcases dusted. Lamps trimmed, filled and chimney cleaned, pens made, door and windows opened.-A PAIL of water and scuttle of coal must be brought in by each clerk before breakfast, if there is time to do so and attend customers who call.

Any employee who is the habit ofSMOKING [more...]

I’ve gotta resubscribe to Wired

Grill — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Gallery: Inside the Navy’s Armed-Robot Labs The Navy’s MDARS-E is an armed robot that can track anything thatmoves. Told that I was the target, the unmanned vehicle trained itsguns on me and ordered, “Stay where you are,” in an intimidating robotvoice. And yes, it was frightening.

Dystopian Bias

Grill — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:07:00 +0000

Judge Dredd Writer: My Nightmare Vision Of A State Gone Mad Has Come True (from Sunday Herald) “It’s not funny anymore. I find it hard to write Judge Dredd now, I really do.”

…Grant and Wagner would read tabloid newspapers to find social trends such as youth gangs, unemployment, overcrowding and neighbour rage that they exaggerated and placed into the future.

“It’s pretty horrific when you realise that what you’ve written, admittedly an extrapolation of a trend, has got stronger and stronger,” said Grant. Going to Glasgow airport and seeing police officers armed Judge Dredd-style confirmed to Grant the state [more...]

SHARIABOT SAYS KILL

Grill — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:25:00 +0000

Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- A controversial new electronic device could revolutionize the field of Islamic jurisprudence and allegedly issue more accurate Shariah fatwas [religious edicts]. The device, currently in production in France, will be known as the ‘Electronic Mufti’ and will depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to issue opinions on contemporary Muslim affairs and matters.

Engineer Dr. Anas Fawzi…describes the device as “a very large capacity computer on which all the information that is relevant to a given [historical] figure is uploaded; everything that has been mentioned in history books or chronicled documents that indicate his/her responses [more...]

HAHAHAHA. We’re all dead.

Grill — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:00 +0000

‘Safe Ebola’ created for researchHAHAHAHAHA. We’re all dead.

People are Too Much about buses.

Grill — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:44:00 +0000

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Claire Pendrous Pro User says:DVLA details for this old Volvo bus are:Date of Liability 01 12 1996Date of First Registration 23 11 1979Year of Manufacture 1979Fuel Type Heavy OilVehicle Status UnlicensedVehicle Colour MAROON

Hot Grill Pro User says:Where the hell did you get those details from?

budgie2007 / Rich B. Pro User says:This Volvo Ailsa B55 with Alexander 79-seat body was one of a batch of 20 [more...]