By this axe I rule!

Dungeon Fighter Online

2009-09-10T19:10:00Z

http://dungeonfighter.nexon.net/

This game looks pretty cool. It's a free to play MMORPG, only it plays like an old school side scrolling beat'em up - think Golden Axe and Streets of Rage.

They're currently accepting registration for a beta that starts next week. Anybody fancy trying it out?

Dance, Voldo, Dance

2009-09-06T15:33:04Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t2_WZ2znC8&feature=related

Everybody's favourite bondage gear clad, giant claw wielding oddball gets down and boogies.

If Manowar were Swedish, and female...

2009-08-23T19:39:42Z

http://www.myspace.com/hysterica

Martin Walkyier is a heavy metal god

2009-08-11T23:56:30Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9Tc7JS21I

A Beautiful Start To The End Of The World, by The Clan Destined

ShatLeg Event

2009-08-09T20:22:26Z

The Shattered Legacies event was pretty damn awesome!

My brain is tired right now so I'm not going to write loads, but thanks to the other players, the ref team and the monster crew for making it such an enjoyable event.

I think I may still be power-tripping after that alchemied-up final showdown. I should probably sleep at some point.

Dual-Classing

2009-07-23T18:32:36Z

I received my offer letter from Leeds Met today, for the part time Civil Engineering HND. Barring some calamitous fuckup, I should get on the course this year!

More music stuff

2009-07-09T18:45:14Z

It seems that July has been a good month so far as CD purchases go.

http://www.myspace.com/bloodceremony

What would you get if you put Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and Ingrid Pitt in a blender?

Probably an awful lot of red mush, but if you take it in a musical sense, you'd end up with something that sounded a lot like Blood Ceremony do. And it's a pretty awesome sound.

http://www.myspace.com/churchofserialkiller

Japanese band who sing about serial killers while playing some seriously massive fuzzy riffs.

Death to All But Metal!

2009-06-30T18:30:04Z

http://www.myspace.com/steelpantherkicksass

Steel Panther are a joke hair metal band. They're actually quite good and their songs are funny, in an offensive kinda way. Probably not to everybody's tastes, but I know there are some pretty terrible people on my friends list :)

Today

2009-05-06T17:41:26Z

Today has been pretty good - so much so that I actually noticed it and decided to write something!

It's been the first day in ages that I haven't been rushed off my feet at work trying to meet deadlines - I left work at 5 (this is a rarity, the entire office have been in until at least 6 the last few weeks), wandered across town and picked up the new Deadlands book from Travelling Man. Not read it properly yet, but flicked through and it does contain some awesome looking stuff.

Just finished eating, I'm now off to an outdoor ShatLeg 'bar night', which promises to be very cool indeed. There may be IC archaeology, and there's almost definitely going to be something nasty trying to kill us...

Goblin Cock

2009-04-01T22:13:35Z

No, seriously, that's what they're called

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSA3NXM-VTM

Bizarre name, bizarre video... I like Stoner Rock

I'm strangely not feeling all that tired, despite my body not quite adjusting to British Summer Time (and thus not having had much sleep this week so far) and doing a 10 hour day at work today to meet a deadline.

We're incredibly busy at the moment - if any of you are secretly Civil Engineers and fancy a job, let me know and I'll see if we're looking to hire anybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz6xpU397no&feature=related

This one's even weirder
(and the video's worth watching even if you have no sound)

Weird and Wonderful

2009-02-19T19:26:07Z

For some reason, today I had the old 'Mr Soft' Softmints advert song stuck in my head. So what to do but get home and look up the advert on Youtube and relive a time when adverts were cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uU7O6NRg4
(for those who are curious)

Then I started thinking about other old adverts, in particular this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcFm_L4GLs

So anyway, I figured I'd post this in an attempt to inspire some kind of advertising- related nostalgia fest (that is the sort of thing LJ is for, right?), so does anybody out there have any fond memories of particular adverts they wish to add?

EDIT: I have to add these Weetabix ones, they're class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozGotV-Xcs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdchyecOsh0&feature=related

If only I could cook like this guy...

2009-02-12T22:30:07Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUKjh0ey7mc

WTF?

2009-01-21T00:07:02Z

This isn't going to apply to everybody, but you can read it anyway if you want :)

It seems to have been forgotten that York SF&F has a messageboard. I think it could become quite an interesting and useful thing if more than 5 people actually used it, so why not click on the link and contribute (it's on the internet, so it's not like what you post has to make sense!)

http://yorksfandf.proboards56.com/index.cgi#general

Yeah, it's probably never going to reach the heights of the old Shadovald boards, but I'm getting worried as I seem to be becoming one of the most active users, and that just feels wrong.

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-21T22:41:25Z

Christmas time is here again, which means it's time for cheesy Christmas songs!

Here's one you probably won't hear on the radio, or find on NOW! It's Christmas, or whatever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVUAuNffCSA

davine_wrath @ 2008-12-16T19:56:00

2008-12-16T19:57:38Z

I have discovered that 3D posters are totally awesome!

Tally Ho!

2008-11-28T00:04:25Z

Go to Vampire and play some kind of over the top British big game hunter from the late 1800s, you say?

Would that kind of thing work? Has it been done before? Too many times?

Circus of Horrors

2008-10-29T18:58:37Z

As you may be aware, The Circus of Horrors is back in town (on the 9th of November) with a new show, Apocalypse Asylum (new plot and everything, which is good, as the old one wasn't holding together so well due to several artists/freaks leaving).

I might be tempted to go and see them again, and can try and organise some kind of outing again if any of you are interested.

http://www.circusofhorrors.co.uk/

Saturday Night Drama

2008-09-27T20:43:50Z

Something mildly interesting, at least.

I was just sitting in front of my computer now when I heard a strange noise from outside. I looked out of the window to see a fire engine parked outside my house and people running from it and setting up a hose, and whatever else firemen do when they're dealing with a fire. Then they started walking up my driveway...

Alarmed, I went downstairs to find out what was going on. My house wasn't on fire, but one of my neighbours gardens was. Turns out some neighbours had been having a bonfire in their back garden. On this bonfire, they'd thrown a mattress and other random household things you shouldn't really burn. Someone (not sure if it was them) called the fire brigade, who promptly showed up and dealt with the fire. They went through my garden because it was the easiest way to get to the fire.

So, in summary, those neighbours are idiots, and hurrah for the Fire service!

Orange Goblin @ Fibbers, 11th October

2008-09-25T17:44:36Z

http://www.fibbers.co.uk/scripts/gig.cfm?gig_id=8152

Wow... a band I actually want to see is playing in Fibbers. That doesn't happen often.

Anybody else interested in coming along?

Here's what they sound like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoJjH_Zmck

http://www.myspace.com/theorangegoblin

Mighty Boosh

2008-09-24T21:30:41Z

The Mighty Boosh live show was awesome!

Just in case you haven't had enough 'weird' in your day...

2008-08-29T00:12:21Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzhL-0_pC3E

Maelstrom, and GAH!!!

2008-08-27T17:58:08Z

Firstly, I've booked for Maelstrom, and was wondering if anybody driving from York has space for me, or my kit with me on a train, as this would make getting there a hell of a lot easier.

Secondly, GAH!!! Useless HR people...

I won't be going to study HND Civil Engineering this year because the people in HR didn't tell me that in addition to all the forms I filled in I actually had to apply for the course. Both my manager and I had assumed that since we have the whole training scheme thing set up that they would handle all of that once I'd submitted my info, but it appears not. Cue finding out on Thursday last week, rushed applications and the expected 'we're sorry, but the course is full for this year' response. If I'm lucky, someone will drop out and I'll be able to replace them, but that's unlikely. There are no other alternatives in reasonable travelling distance, and to make matters worse the 1 year evening CAD course at York College I was looking at so I'd be able to progress my training somewhere this year has been pulled due to budget cuts. Lame...

Never fear children, the Paedofinder General is here...

2008-08-12T21:53:57Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yL_U5gSaT0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QznV-UaGvLA&feature=related

Might not be to everybody's taste...

No wait, the only people who'll be reading this will be people I know.

EDIT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsoVdvtZC4&feature=related

This is even better! (Though should be watched after the other two)

True Tales of the Unexplained

2008-08-07T18:57:28Z

A weird scene greeted me when I got back from work today. As I unlocked my door, I noticed that the door between the hall and the kitchen was ajar. "Odd", I thought, "I usually close that". So I entered, and walked into the kitchen. Someone, or something had spilled milk all over the floor. My first thought was to check the fridge because my milk must be leaking, but this proved not to be the case. I opened the fridge and the milk bottle was standing in its usual place (in the door of the fridge), lid on, no dripping holes, not sat in a pool of its former contents. I then searched round the house to see if anything was missing or had been moved, and if whoever or whatever was responsible was still around somewhere. Everything was as it should be. There were no cats hiding behind sofas or under beds, or people in cupboards.

The doors downstairs were locked (and I'd changed the locks after moving in) and all but one window was closed. The bathroom window was open at the top, and only allowed a couple of inches of space. The only conceivable way in was through the cat flap, which I'd left unlocked as I'm expecting a package too large for my letterbox but smaller than a cat (and I know my postie will try the cat flap, she's done it before). So a cat entered my house, managed to open the fridge, unscrew the milkbottle, pour milk on the floor, put the bottle back in the fridge, drank some milk and then left? Without leaving any tracks? Through the cat flap which could only be opened from the outside?

Weird.

I have some photos of the milk on the floor and several photos of the kitchen before I cleaned up. Not sure how to put them up here and don't have time right now to flick through help pages. They might appear later.

Do I get some cool prestige class out of this?

2008-06-24T21:56:06Z

My boss said to me today that he'd like me to go and do a part time Civil Engineering HND. Basically 1 day a week for 3 years at Leeds Met, I get paid for going, the company pays the course fees and when I'm done then I'm a qualified Civil Engineer rather than the slightly qualified not-engineer I currently am. This is quite an awesome prospect. It seems a better plan than the guy from the ICE who said that I could pick up the engineering stuff gradually on the job over a few years, as our York office is small so the engineering types are usually too busy to teach me the theory stuff and technical knowledge that I'd need.

I've spoken to someone else at work who did the course a couple of years ago, my brother (who is at Leeds Met) and my Dad, and they all say go for it. It'd improve my understanding of the engineering side of things considerably, and would move me up a grade from technician to engineer, which everyone agrees I'd have no trouble doing - the ICE guy was impressed with the way I grasped some basic concepts which some senior engineering people sometimes struggle with.

So, come September I'm going to be starting my path to being a 'multi-class' archaeologist/engineer. :)