Had a lovely Conpulsion this year. I worked the Black Lion stall on Saturday, which is always nice. There's a simple joy to selling games; being helpful and helping people find stuff they want is a natural compulsion of mine. It was also a nice opportunity to see most of the people at the con as just about everyone passes by the game store at some ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I thought that if someone was a different allegiance on WoW I could never talk to them. Now I understand the power of Alts. Thus, anyone wanna drop me a server/character name combo so I can get in touch & play a little? mouflonmatt  said he had a character, and I know Kiffkin has hers on the Bronzebeard server. Would love to get in touch & ( Read more... )

I've never played City of Heroes, but this series makes me kinda want to: http://www.roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=589Read more... )

Just want to quickly recommend the Battlestar Galactica boardgame - its a very social game that you can get the hang of by the end of the first round of turns and then play competently for the rest of the game. Bluffing, double bluffing and good acting skills are definitely good bonuses, and the team play aspect is great fun, even when your team ( Read more... )

Fo rthose of you who have any interest at all in what the f*ck happened to the banks, the Bank of England have published the notes to an amazing speech on Stress Testing - that is, looking at how your company would react to adverse circumstances and making appropriate preparations - and why banks have sucked at it. Its a little statistics0y, but as ( Read more... )

An odd request I know, but does anyone have a student ID they could lend me that looks even vaguely like me, for one day on the 28th? I know, tis totally a naughty thing, but if I can get it I can go see Scotland V Italy at Murrayfield, and it was a blast last year so I'd like to go again. Any ideas ( Read more... )

Day one of the new Lloyds Banking Group, and it turns out I'm too freaking busy with customer and stats bulls**t to even read the freaking dispatches properly. And the bits I did read were shiny and uninformative, broad sweeps statements about customer relationships and how awesome we are. Well, feck 'em. I don't like banking, I don't like banks, ( Read more... )

• Lloyds is actually definitely taking HBOS over now, in a week's time. I fear for my job, since we really haven't been doing much, but I could be in the branches which would be worse.
• I seem to have lost the ability to shop for music. I don't know what anything sounds like anymore, given that I have no TV and haven't been listening to the radio like ( Read more... )

Hello! Just a quickie reminder that my 30th birthday party is next Monday from 6:30 onwardsat the Great Grog Wine Bar on Rose Street. Same block as Fopp and Sainsburys. Also come hang out before hand at the Assembly up near Potterrow - next to Negociants? Think it used to be Iguanas. I'll be heading there for lunch at 12:30 with Brian. Come see me ( Read more... )

Bath- home of the bored, the jaded and the listless. it can be hard to find quality entertainment here, and thus I find myself watching TV ( Read more... )