Bricking It

Talking of creepy lesbo, can I just say how all round excellent bricking it is ... more please!

Stroke my bunny

This sounds just right for Creepy Lesbo - an interactive bunny stroking game ... :-)

Convoy

One of the benefits of the gloomy winter afternoons and the dark evenings, is the chance to actually get around to watching all of the dvds that I bought on impulse over the summer.

The Sunday matinee yesterday was Convoy, the archetypal trucking movie based on the novelty country & western song by CW McColl. The plot, such as it is, concerns the misadventures of a roguish trucker by the name of Rubber Duck, played by Kris Kristofferson at his twinkly blue eyed and bare chested best, who has a run in with a corrupt Sheriff and finds himself at the head of an impromptu and rapidly growing convoy of trucks making a break for the border. There are a couple of subplots with a feisty photographer played by Ali McGraw tagging along, and a black trucker being brutalised by racist cops, but the movie is really just an excuse for director Sam Peckinpah to film lots of big rigs in the Arizona and New Mexico badlands kicking up dust, smashing up cars, driving into, through and over anything else on the road and finally exploding in glorious slo-mo. It was a clear influence on one of my all time favourite video games, namely Interstate 76, and I will admit to a sneaking fondness for the original song, so this movie really went down a treat.

Ten-Four good buddy!

Cats n dogs

With thanks to Lisybabe for the link, Biddy, Frank and Barney now have their own Catster and Dogster accounts.

The JCB Song

From this week's b3ta.com newsletter comes this utterly charming little song that made me smile this morning.

Batman: Dead End

Go on - you know that your inner fanboy wants you to watch Batman: Dead End ... :-)

Anticipation Eschaton

I don't know why I spend so long thinking of titles for my blog posts. For some reason, I have to have the title in place before I start writing - perhaps I should write the post first and then fit a title to it? The above title is a track from the bizarro rave concept album 'Arbor Bona Arbor Mala' by the Shaman, and it fits mainly for the subtitle 'Be ready for the storm'.

Anyhoo, what a dark, dank and miserable day. Work has been relatively quiet, apart from testing a fix to a bug I reported ages ago, so I've been running through some data integrity checks prior to running the month end analysis reports. I had a nice compliment yesterday for a report I cobbled together in about ten minutes, compared to the one on Wednesday which was a darn sight more tricky and took half the day with nary a word of thanks. Harrumph.

Last night saw some serious Mario Kart action. I've finished the first set of 50CC grand prix races and started on the second set of missions. They're an interesting mix of different skill tests and boss fights - things like getting a certain number of power slide boosts in one lap, or knocking a boss character off a platform in a sumo stylee. It's a good way to learn the game, although my m@d l33t KRATZ SK1LLZ seemed to desert me when I went online and I didn't win a single match, although I came frustratingly close on a couple of games.

I think that I need to experiment with some different character and kart (sorry, that should be KRAT) combinations and find one that fits my driving style better than my usual choice of Luigi with the Standard LG. The more I play it, the more impressed I am - it's a fabulously deep and subtle racing game with some lovely touches and there really is nothing quite like racing real people from round the world whilst you are sat on your sofa watching "I'm a celebrity - I can't believe it's not butter".

Ahem. Three days plus posting time for Animal Crossings ... fret fret. Time for some chilli noodles with peanut butter and a nice cup of tea methinks.