Jane Rogers – The Testament of Jessie Lamb, sounds ok but genre so wont win the rest, who cares. #booker
The reason British Telecom should censor any mention of the booker prize is simple, By knowing of it means less opportunity for copyright owners [think Rupert Murdoch] to imagine things that readers have read and thus deprive Mr Murdoch of a money making opportunity.
The fun begins for some now, after all Rupert Murdoch is always right is he not..
Bananas in Falkland’s has problems with computer games – the main one is that most of them wont work without an windoze emulator, and our monkey house internet connection is slow. Last year i found a game that worked, but left it after two months on account of some idiots in the game.
With the mainstream media being terrified shitless by computers and the internet and so does it best to label anybody who uses a computer and the internet as a mentally unstable person since it conflicts with there ideas of what people should be doing and thats before I even mention that australians are not allowed to do adult video games – the bbc did a classic example of this.
MR POO (from bbc panorama) we presume
This last december (what delay? its only late July- my schedule is full) a free play for players was announced in the game i left. Being that the zoo was empty i decided to utilize it and found that nothing much had changed and the quality of the other users still sucked (mr poo anybody*?)
Then while doing something in pirate area of the game I get a class idiot ‘WHO USED CAPITAL LETTERS AND MUST BE AN VERY IMPORTANT BUZINESSMAN BECAUSE I MIGHT BE WASTING HIS TIME**.
Needless to say I thought this was funny and then my thing was then blown up which just proves that some humans just don’t get the fine points of things and the game i thought it was and is really an arcade based shooter.
There be nothing wrong with shooting games however after a while shooting things can get boring but you know i can do better than hang out with these slightly odd people some who call themselves mr poo.
The best thing about players like MR POO is that they then complain that nobody then visits them thus making them bored, clearly a bright mind at work.
Another ‘problem’ with unpopular mmo games apart from the lack of lack of players is the wrong timezone issue – suppose you live in Japan and play an english speaking and server-ed somewhere a long way away – are you a real player or not? long time game professionals would say no – why? Because you don’t play when the US is playing thus you not be a real player.
I have heard long time gamers say this public-ally.
Now what do small game companies hate ?. Honesty thats what. Tell them why why you could not pay for more than a month and that forum post is deleted and you are accused as being a troll – which i can out troll the average trollers without even trying with honesty.
Granted i see things good, and bad and see more than pew pew in the game. I also appreciate some of the better players but if anything other than LOVE IT++++ is not suitable as a comment then you get my drift.
So nothing of value was lost. Except more msm’ers to do computer game players are all sickos pieces and all is well****. The upshot of being sick*** is that i should now go out and throw a lot journalists out of a very high window and see what happens. After all its only a game after all and we can then throw them out the window again.
* bit of childrens humour, not offensive to me ** yes just like that *** being that i use a computer,the internet to write this i must be very sick mentally **** Bonus loony bin points for computer and internet usage.
That should keep the ‘editors’ in charge.
isbn: 9780230750760 is quite special as it transcends the alien and mixes human in the mix and uses language to convey it all.
Mr Mieville, whom wrote this (my blog) yet unlike Olaf Stapledon keeps his books human and this not an impersonal text and this is where author shines through using stuff rather than describing the stuff.
4/5 bananas. Well worth the time.
nobody saw it here too
imdb: tt0775489 is probably something you will mix up with another film of the same name (which was rather good), the 2010 film had a non existent release and unless you happened to be really keen festival goer in one place its doubtful anybody saw it.
It is now on dvd and the three people at the festival who did see it are promoting it as a dvd release. That points to failure in the UK’s cinema purchasing habits so next time some film person rants about people not visiting places be reminded that this film had about three viewings in one cinema before some sequel of sequel ended up in mainstream cinema.
Pathe who made the dvd annoyed the monkey house by the film jamming during the titles at the start of the film in our dvd television and that’s with a never before used disk. Yes it meant watching on computer* which worked.
Minimalist is one way to describe this film, sound is minimal and it relies on screen gags for key points. It certainly does not paint scotland in a kind light. Its story the begining of television and the end of variety in theatres in the 1950′s is well portrayed if a little depressing at times as this is not a happy story.
It concludes with a bittersweet ending, but the genius of this expensive project that nobody got the chance to see can be found in the dvd extra of the making of it. The art of the animation is then explored and perhaps you might argue that some elements are perhaps better than others.
Technically brilliant,the story seems lengthened. 4/5 bananas.
* not very relaxing, why did I rent it as a dvd ?
The zoo ran out of normal coffee on a sunday morning (not decaf which is evil), and panic reined all over the zoo. others switched drinks, I stopped drinking coffee.
Two days later and I was unmotivated and sleeply. I resolved never to run out of coffee again Tuesday saw new coffee and it was really nice, Bananas was soon back to being that usual ape everybody in the zoo likes.
Bananas had a dead linux distro to deal with, it was very much a niche distro but it worked, but then it went stale. Most of the updates where proposed and done in paper and blogged about, a movement from ubuntu to debian hit a dead end and since it was based on ubuntu 9 and getting updates was a hopeless cause and needing extra time and effort, things although still available needed other things and since its been a couple of years a refresh of sort was on the agenda.
I also don’t like Ubuntu’s extra requirements on each release, but I do like Debian and use it for servers being somebody who likes a challenge i went for the debian mint distro which is an attempt at a rolling release on a desktop. That was the idea. Getting stuff of the old distro was rather painfull, and when that was eventually done i could reformat the disk and start from scratch not necessary but worth it.
Usually messing with hardware is not something I do a lot of, To my surprise a lot of the things i was expecting trouble from did not exist, wired networking worked, and the screen displayed. To me teats a good start. the webcam, wireless where hardware issues though.
After apt fixing at command line (too many updates for the gui, after loading from usb stick) things started moving, the cam worked through an update, and the sticky keys for sound/brightness worked as well. So with mint 10 my only real issue was with atheros 9285 wireless lan which was there but disabled doing the enigmatic thing.
rfkill (a new command in linux for me) worked, and changing the user permissions to allow networking seemed to free up the wireless adaptor for work A bit of preference setting got a desktop more suited to what the old distro was like.
Debian Mint has a few more prompts on updates than Ubuntu does [debian testing], criticisms i make of it is too much mono, it took a couple of goes to remove the crud mono and virus threat (microsoft) it probably is, and yes i can do without f-spot. The terminal prompt is quite amusing on the live dvd. Be nice i had /sbin in the path on default – i might have a ether net wire but is it connected not a major gripe.
Most of the technical issues with the ‘niche’ hardware where sorted with three packages.and i have no complaints. Impressed with Debian Mint.
The ‘holiday’ is supposed to be relaxing. Getting one booked is damm hard work or so some zoo guests tell me. You probably have seen adverts for say New Zealand, and yes it looks ok but im told they cant get flights there as its booked solid. I could go on like that and reduce some marketing experts to mint sauce*, But i will not as thats too easy.
So with most of the desired destinations off the list where do you go ? this is where i have my fun at British Telecoms [british india to most] expense. Who i am told cannot produce a decent home broadband connect for a cup of tea without the connection dying, freezing (restart the computer) or some other weird reason.
Thats where I come in as party decamp to the zoo and use the monkey houses wifi and connection which has didly squat to do with British India and actually works without suffering the problems i mentioned earlier.
So after a while something is booked, but that confirm page im called to fix the extra charges for extra baggage and stufff, i do this and leave the humans to enter the details of the guests and consider it the end of the matter. This is done but long twenty minute phone conversation then goes on between the person and the firm as they made a her a he in the mr,miss.monkey,chicken box.
Being young means im with the oatmeal and if i had testicles would rather be punched there than ring customer services. I take forms very seriously something the old don’t seem to do
Im sure the new zealand tourist don’t really care that there not visiting it after all if you cannot get there why go ?
* think about new zealand.
I was asked to help a human with some ‘computer’ issues and i amble there. I have a sneaking suspicion while doing silly stuff that somebody else has been in and helped, and told it is a new/better computer as well it was best not to ask.
The bloatware on this compaq pc is amazing, after de-installing Norton i see a ton of windows accessories that most will never use and huge pimpage of anything Microsoft, quite how one can use works and word trial version at the same time seems strange. With the humans licensed copy of word something i suppose justifies the 500gb hard disk*.
I have to use a scanner thing in a printer device and I finally ‘get’ windows 7 interface which is more mickey mouse inspired than real computers. Menus are impossible to navigate, however the click on the printer and the features appear is an improvement, not that the human in question would probably get that far.
Windows 7 is a mess for anyone who used windows properly before, clearly windows has an idiot version.
* i run Debian in 10gb with space to spare on one box with a word processor.
isbn: 9781848875166 is an author who i have read before (my blog) and got on okay with despite it being a winner which usually means the writer is then a one hit wonder. This is a very pucka book and sometimes horrifying from a Camdem perspective. Anyhow the author keeps it together and does not do a russian with billions of characters with double barrelled names, and keeps it in one location.
The characters cleverly change in perspective as the book continues and does not bore the reader, since the author is also writing from a ‘what you know’ place it gives a better idea of the some the corruption indians tolerate and which is normally self censored . It is a story of greed that may or may not change the balance of pucka in a building which has seen better days.
Some interesting role reversals and although it is a little too much detail at times it has a good conclusion. 4/5 bananas.
