We’ve been cleaning up our new office in central London (built 1891). Whilst the scaffolding was up I took the opportunity to snap some of the details in the stone work. They don’t make things like this any more etc.
November 13, 2009
They don’t make things like this any more etc.
November 1, 2009
halloween cat lantern
each year i try to better the halloween pumpkin from the previous year. this year i even impressed myself 
go fight the real war on terror
i love reddit. i’m not much into “community”, i contribute little, am unsociable, cantankerous, and dismissive; but Reddit is just great. anything of any import finds it’s way there, and i like the sense of humour.
there are many facets to reddit. people post, and vote up or down, all kids of stuff. then there are the sub-reddits, areas of special interest etc. one good example is “AMA”, someone states what they are, or what they’ve done, and says “ask me anything”. in fact general questions posted often lead to the most interesting things.
here’s nice example of reddit from today.
Q: Soldiers who have been in battle: Do you like playing games like Call of Duty or is it difficult for you to put yourself back in that position?
I was in the Infantry, and was in Kirkuk when COD4 came out. I ordered a bunch of switches, and there was an abundance of cat5 lying around. Strippers, RJ-45 jacks, and crimpers magically appeared. I networked up our entire platoon, everyone got COD4 (They sell video games like crazy at the PXs overseas), and we would play all the time. They also sell gaming laptops (Toshiba only when I was there) too, along with XBOX 360s and PS3s. If you’re an unmarried soldier making a minimum of 2k a month, tax-free, with nothing to spend it on, convincing someone to drop 2k on a gaming laptop is like convincing someone back here to go to the movies. We also played Dawn of War, and organized DoW tournaments. There were about 12-16 of us who played ALL the time.
It’s funny because we would be playing COD4 for a few hours, and then we would have to go out on a real mission, and if it was a good round of games we’d be bummed out because we’d have to put down our game to go fight the real war on terror.
