My Shield Tablet gotrecalled the new one jsut arrived... in the corner of a cardboard box that contained another cardboard box that contains a roll of tape and two bags of Vermiculite, bubble wrap and a plastic bag... To return the old one ( Read more... )

Guess I better post my yearly livejournal entry.

I see Oculus Rift finally got a product to market. It only took them two years and a buy-out by facebook, two dev kits and the assertion that Next Gen consoles weren't powerful enough to generate VR image ( Read more... )

I've been posting little bits over on G+ for a long time, and not really doing much longer form essay stuff.
So.
Well.
Hum.
Not ded.

Scott Adams' blog makes me happy.

Not because it's well written, thoughtful or any other redeeming quality, it makes me happy because it's my Three Minute hate: It gives me something to be angry about that's not actually important.

I can be angry about so many important subjects, and afterwards, just feel depressed because my blazing ( Read more... )

We took the dog up to the Yorkshire Dales to look at Malham Cove*. The dog was very impressed and took great delight in throwing herself into the river, many times. She seems to enjoy both paddling and the odd little swim. I think she just likes feeling mud squish between her toes ( Read more... )

Working on some design. It's one of these weird concepts, like "Draw a picture encapsulating the concept of something you can't imagineAwkward ( Read more... )

I’m still live and kicking. I sort of gave up on LJ because frankly Iw as having more fun on G+ and I just forgot LJ was there.

But now I return and find they have a j/k key navigation and I’m all squeetastic, because that’s the perfect way to read it.

It’s the little things.

So what’s new?

• Went to a masquerade ball. That was surprisingly ( Read more... )

Packed for AC, unpacked, re-packed, checked the airline website and now I'm worried because I don't know how much my luggage weighs. I need to go off and weigh it to make sure it's not 'over weight'.

If I have to I'll just have to cut out a few of the gifts I was going to bring and mail them instead.

Hollywood claims it'll destroy an entire multi-billion dollar industry - But Hollywood got started in California because they were hiding out from Edison because they were pirating his camera technology. And Edison was making money selling pirate copies of 'The first men in the moon'.

America, a young country, was also infamous for never paying ( Read more... )