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Monkey Island 2 in 3D using Cryengine

Grill — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:34:00 +0000

Beautiful, though the music convinces you more than the imagery.

You Want To Be My Friend On Facebook?

Grill — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:24:00 +0000

Awesome, painful song.

This is Turning into a Video Blog

Grill — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:26:00 +0000

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Bloody Twitter and work are stopping me blogging, grr.

Herzog’s Penguin: Introduction

Grill — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:13:00 +0000

“Is there… insanity, derangement amongst… penguins?”

My Recent Photos

Grill — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:12:00 +0000

Recent Images, originally uploaded by Hot Grill.

1. The White Horse of Billericay, 2. Too Many Signs, 3. The Gap, 4. Beautiful Big-Eared Piggles, 5. Freaky Teddy Bears & Doll, 6. 170309 105, 7. Worm, 8. Mannequin, 9. The White Horse of Billericay

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker News Clip

Grill — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0000

The UK news is not only voyeuristic, it’s also nationalistic and enormously biased towards the increased value of a white, English middle-class life. I’m rather tired of it.

Beatiful Tilt-Shift Movie

Grill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:50:00 +0000

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

These are real people, the video’s just been sped-up and tilt-shifted.

Found in a notebook

Ritting — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:12:00 +0000

In moments of solitude, my mind, once far-ranging, now only homes in on one phrase; “mi amo”. I don’t speak Italian or any of the Romance languages, save Latin, so I don’t know what it means, but I’ve a feeling that my hindbrain /thinks/ it knows what it means; “my love”. I mumble it to myself at all times, like a mantra that removes the need for thought, introspection, awareness, alacricity. I can feel tearing, as with the sea’s withdrawing acting upon a shore-loose pebble, at my mind right now, a sleepy desire to just lie down and invoke “mi [more...]

McGoohan, McGoohan, McGone.

Grill — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:27:00 +0000

Just remembered that Patrick McGoohan died yesterday. Farewell childhood hero, our rebel without reason (but not without a cause), now you’re Number Zero.I’m currently listening to “I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape” by The Times. S’alright.

I Won A Book!

Grill — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:38:00 +0000

Congratulations to Dan Griliopoulos, winner of our Medical London competition. We asked for a piece of trivia connected with medicine in London, and Dan provided this:

The premier London medical story has to be that of Samuel Pepys’ stone. Not the actual operation – which was long and painful (without anaesthetic) or highly dangerous (without modern medical techniques they had to cut up through the perineum to actually reach the kidneys where the stones were forming) – but his later love for the tennis ball-sized lump of crystalline urine. He’d carry in his pocket everywhere, show it to friends, [more...]

Stolen From LOL GOD

Grill — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:15:00 +0000

Shameless Plug

Grill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:13:00 +0000

Which Champion Are You? | Champions Online Official SiteI’m not handling PR for this particular MMO (though I am for its predecessor, City of Heroes), but I’m interested to see how it goes. They’ve got a nice What Hero Are You generator on the website, though it seems to have read me rather too well.

Raised on a steady diet of comic books, you grew up to be an unstable lunatic, whose wacky ambitions are only matched by your delusions of grandeur. You’re too crafty to get caught, otherwise you’d certainly be locked away in the loony bin!

Take the [more...]

My Questions Answered!

Grill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:16:00 +0000

Ask OxSciBlog: Higgs Boson – University of Oxford As you’ve been busy sending in your questions for Oxford scientists I thought we ought to start giving some answers:First up is a question from Daniel Griliopoulos which is answered by Alan Barr from Oxford’s Department of Physics.—————————————————————————————————————- Q: What’s going to happen if they don’t find the Higgs Boson?[Also regarding that; to this layman, it just looks like physicists are trying to bury something they don't understand (gravity) in another fundamental particle, am I being unfair?]Alan Barr: The Higgs mechanism was proposed by Prof Peter Higgs of Edinburgh (and others) to [more...]

On Getting Mullered

Grill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:45:00 +0000

BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston

Then there’s the plight of all those overseas businesses that manufacture cars in the UK. They’re being mullered by a massive contraction of available credit and a collapse in sales.

(My emphasis) The premier journalist for these days of collapsing economies, Robert Peston, uses a phrase I’ve only heard in pubs and student haunts, where it means “badly damaged or drunk.” What a strange word it is too and, of uncertain, recent derivation; how odd for a BBC journalist to be using what is still considered an outsider, slang word. The peeps [more...]

100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers

Grill — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:37:00 +0000

Fragmentary Day

Grill — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:05:00 +0000

I stopped blogging for a long time, I don’t know why, comfort perhaps. Stimulus to restart? “Holocause is Coming”, “All Jews Must Die” and “Juden Mord” written in chalk on the road outside my house in Golders Green – not targetted at me, but at the local community. I thought our area was wonderfully mixed – Hindus, muslims, jews and Eastern Europeans – turns out someone disagrees.

Uncomfortable with fiction where necessity is for realism.

I’m reading Norwegian Wood at the moment. Haruki Murakami is really the paragon of lonely, alienated writing – makes me feel cold and alone [more...]

God Hates Signs

Grill — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:03:00 +0000

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Post 1.001 – Conversational Fragments

Grill — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:36:00 +0000

Auden is darkly, depressibly comic, eloquent, concerned both about the wider world and the horrible authorities in it, and with the very, very personal and embarassing. He’s like an Elliot without the unnecessary stretching for benchmarking references… It’s a sad poem, of a man past his prime or never in it, lusting in the carefully-instituional structures of yesteryear… I found myself walking through Kings Cross yesterday and, catching sight of a flapping wing feeling sudden joy at some life other than the massed shoulder-pressed humans, before I realised it was a stuck shred of paper flapping in the tube-train’s gale… [more...]

GMAs

Grill — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:48:00 +0000

Trade hails its media darlings | Gaming Industry | News by MCV It also featured a very special Games Media Legend award which went to Future veteran Steve Jarratt, the man who launched Edge and Official PlayStation Magazine.The winners were decided by a vote that was thrown open to MCV’s entire readership.

Having lost out to Imagine’s GamesTM last year, Future’s Edge claimed the Best Magazine crown. And the market’s leading publisher scored another win with Tom Francis of PC Gamer being named Best Specialist Games Writer, Print.

Gratz Tom, Steve, Edge and Ellie! Sorry Log, they should have made [more...]

John Cleese on Sarah Palin

Grill — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:48:00 +0000

“I used to think Michael Palin was the funniest Palin”.

Awesome put-down (Thanks Johnny Minkley).