abates

Hi Livejournal

abates Mar 27, 2020 19:31

Long time, no write. I hope everyone is keeping safe from the pandemic and not going out much.

I started working from home earlier this week when the country went to alert level 4 and a full lockdown. The company I work for is classed as essential, but only our technician can go in to the office to do hardware repairs and stuff.

So I get to sit at ( Read more... )

Wait

abates Aug 28, 2016 10:11

What happened to my friends page? Clearly I have been away from LJ too long and they have changed things.

Look, I'm a big subscriber to the idea that if a thing works already, why would you change it?

I've been playing Fallout 3 a bunch recently

abates Aug 31, 2015 22:53

I'm playing it as an evil character because I already did a good playthrough.

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A long-forgotten Christmas story

abates Dec 20, 2014 12:14

I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. A wee tale about a young girl who helps monsters defeat a wicked witch which manages to be both charming and surreal ( Read more... )

I'm just going to leave a link to this Doctor Who fan video here.

abates Jul 30, 2014 18:24

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BMOG

abates Dec 10, 2013 21:20

Just in case anyone's interested in this sorta stuff, there's a Kickstarter some people I know have set up for a toyline they're working on ( Read more... )

Worst Ad award

abates Nov 13, 2013 19:46

The ASB advertisements with Brian Blessed won the Fair Go Worst Ad of the Year award.

What?! How can that be?! It's BRIAN BLESSED!

I can only assume the people of this country are all mad. Though to be fair there were pointers in that direction already.

Plagiarism news now!

abates Mar 16, 2013 22:58

Apparently one of the comic strips in a Pat Troughton era Doctor Who annual was almost totally stolen from an earlier comic. Wow, that's an impressive piece of thievery. I wonder whodunnit...

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Who is this Brian Blessed fellow?!

abates Feb 16, 2013 09:57

Apparently ASB Bank have replaced semi-controversial Goldstien in their advertising with BRIAN BLESSED. This is one mighty step up as far as I'm concerned. wait oh god who gave him a megaphone you fools!!

Here's one of their adverts featuring him:

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And here's another one:

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Normally I can't stand adverts, but seriously, BRIAN BLESSED ( Read more... )

Prime playing the Christmas Special on boxing day

abates Dec 04, 2012 17:36

Prime is playing the Doctor Who Christmas special on Boxing day, a mere 13 hours after it screens in the UK. That's pretty cool-I bet they'll get a boost in ratings.

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