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Feb 25, 2007
Currying Favour…
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Currys.digital, the electrical retailer.I often take a wander around Currys, gawping at all the large TVs and miscellaneous gadgets I can’t afford. This being a Sunday was no different, except that for the first time ever I was stopped at the exit and asked to complete a survey. “How do you rate Currys on your visit TODAY”. I have no idea why I agreed, but I sat down and prepared to tick off the relevant boxes in the three page form.
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Jan 20, 2007
Convenience Reduction Measures
The convenience reduction in this case being that the Hydro Electric shop now doesn’t take Pay Point payments on Saturdays, only Monday to Friday. Pay Point is designed for all kinds of payments, not just energy bills. I work during the week. If it wasn’t for the small detail that I have each Friday afternoon off, it would now be impossible to pay my phone bill.
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Jan 14, 2007
I’m Making a Movie!
I’m sitting here talking about Doughuts and John F Kennedy being a “Berliner” in preparation to filming the second set of scenes from the short amateur movie myself and the team are filming today. It’s a Star Trek fan film and this is a follow up to the full length Trek fan film that we’ve been making (not finished) over the last few years. The atmosphere is electric – well, relaxed with caffeine hangovers – and we seem to be ingesting as much sugar as possible before kicking off again.
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Jan 7, 2007
Blogging from Anywhere
All of this still counts as testing. I’ve just found a blogging app for my pocket pc. So what this means in a practical sense is that I’ve written this from a rather comfortable armchair, far from the computer and without having to put any distance between me and the vodka. (It was a Christmas present and since the chair is situated at the bay window of my third floor flat and the stars are out, I’m having a relaxing time.)
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Nov 23, 2006
Buses
It was slightly amusing today on the bus, listening to the passengers bitching about how the 22X hadn’t stopped for them. Then later on the journey, more people got on and complained that the 22X hadn’t stopped for them either. (We were on the perfectly vanilla No. 22.)
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Nov 19, 2006
NaNoWriMo has Stopped!
Well, it has for me anyway. I managed to get 14000 words done - which isn’t that bad I guess - but the demands of the movie made me feel guilty every time I tried to write something.
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Nov 4, 2006
NaNoWriMo has Started!
So I’m writing a novel in a month and after three days, I’m ahead of the needed wordcount by some 200 words. Not enough of a gap I fear! Of course I’m plagued by guilt because I could be doing more stuff on the Intrepid movie, but I figure I’ll have the computer rendering while I plot and rattle my muse.
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Oct 18, 2006
NaNoWriMo
Well, I finally went and did it. I’ve signed up to nanowrimo with the avowed intent of writing a novel in a month. A novel is defined as 50000 words and I have absolutely no chance of achieving this. Hey, it’ll be fun and I can bash out a few words when the computer’s rendering stuff.
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Right Brain Rumblings
Blog entries prior to 2012 have been transferred from my old Right Brain Rumblings at Blogspot and lightly reformatted, with typos corrected wherever I spotted one. I've also transferred the entries from my old DMA Design website. So if you were looking for the retro games stuff, it's going to be here now. I've also taken the opportunity to add images where I can.
Highlighted Posts
What is Science Fiction Anymore? From 2007, when I was astonished by what is, and isn't considered to be Science Fiction.
Categories
Writing
Alan Grant • 16 Psyche • Proof Mode • I Am Freelance • The Circle is Complete! • Bit Patterns Redux • An Intrepid Update • Hammond’s Law • Edinburgh Book Festival • NaNoWriMo Crash and Burn • What is Science Fiction Anymore? • Blogging from Anywhere • NaNoWriMo has Stopped! • NaNoWriMo has Started! • NaNoWriMo • Why I Shouldn’t Skip PE •Moviemaking
Intrepid: Echoes • Intrepid Release Day • Where there’s a Sea… • The Stone unturned: Friday’s Shoot • The Stone Unturned • Come for the Cave, Stay for the Dead Whale • Where There’s a Sea • Lorraine Kelley Visits • And so it Begins •Intrepid
Bit Patterns Redux • Epistemology pt 3: How I founded a Star Trek Club • Intrepid Release Day • An Intrepid Update • Silicon Heaven • I’m Not in SciFi Now!!! • Where There’s a Sea • I’m Making a Movie! • I’m on Telly! • Holiday Coming Up •Whimsy
Windy OpSec • Wildly Improbable • Cyberpunk 2020 • User Interface • Lemmings Plushies • I Have a Bacon Number of 4! • Carl Sagan Sings! • So What Happens if I Say Yes? • Enchanted Picture • Twitter • Bob Exists • Currying Favour… • Convenience Reduction Measures • Buses • Music and Lyrics • Proof of Concept • Basic Assumption •Miscellaneous
A Long Overdue Update • Update from the Maemo • Overpackaged • Adventurous Scots • Light Aircraft Crash • A Wikipedia Upgrade • Too Tasty for Geeks • Microsoft Surface • Spooks Series 7: Episode 2 • The Satellite Dish • Cardiff • Deliveries • No More Intrepid Blog • Erk •Science Fiction
Alison Rowat and the Licensed Imagination • Bit Patterns Redux • An Intrepid Update • Hammond’s Law • Banks’ Law • Intrepid: Sisters • Arthur C Clarke • What is Science Fiction Anymore? •DMA Design
Public Appearances • Babbling On • Play Expo Blackpool • Grand Theft Auto Begins • Where Does the Time Go? • On No! • A Short Video History of DMA Design • • Newly Appeared Lemmings Graffiti • First Shots from GTA Drama • An Interview and a Repost • Lemmings Plushies • Bill Paxton Talks GTA Game Changer • Tweet from Brian Baglow (@flackboy) • Check This Disk! • The GTA Making-of Drama • Lemmings Merchandise is Go! • DMA Lives! • Project MyWorld • A Lemmings Conversion in 36 Hours • BBC Radio Scotland • You're definitely over the hill when... • Grand Theft Auto (via Gameswipe) • The Circle is Complete! • Epistemology pt 2: The Story of Hired Guns • Epistemology Pt.1: How I Co-Founded DMA Design • Lemmings II • DMA Design Office Tour • Kid Kirby • GTA Remembered •UFOs
Public Appearances • Rational Explanation Unlocked! • Seeing Shapes in the Cloud • The Scottish UFO Casebook • Naming those Pesky Flying UFO Objects • 
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GTA
Bill Paxton Talks GTA Game Changer
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You're definitely over the hill when...
Lemmings
Lemmings: Can You Dig It? Guardian Review
Lemmings: Can You Dig It? Released
A Short Video History of DMA Design
Newly Appeared Lemmings Graffiti
Hired Guns
A Short Video History of DMA Design
A Lemmings Conversion in 36 Hours