El Pibe

I've only read Great Expectations of his, a little while back (we never did Dickens at school), and was amazed by how fresh and modern it felt compared to the fustiness of other victorian /pre war writers. Great Stuff. Am just finishing Just My Type, a history and commentary on Fonts, the whys and wherefores and how they pervade our lives. Surprisingly interesting stuff and done lightheartedly enough that it only veers occasionally into design freak onanism. And now I notice fonts EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Isn't ???? a west ham fan? Fans of the above all have reasons to be ambivalent about him, he brought good football, excitement and some success to all three, well, he took Southampton down which was enough for the Portsmouth fans ;) On the other side he also brought weird signings, shonky finances and some surreal football management choices which meant fans lost the faith. Right now he's having his purple patch, but things will go sour at spurs it always does, assuming he's not banged up first in which case he'll at least leave on a high. *edited for accuracy*

"Change your password ASAP. Use something with a combination of upper case, lower case and numbers to minimise risk of compromise." "Dont just use letters (case sensitive) and numbers but also include some symbols. For example: Ka!/\mityKel12 " http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png

True, yes but ghost written and quite.

Indeed. Although he might have been referring to Roberta Flack's Killing Me [Career] Softly?

I see Mr Hari resigned. His resignation letter rather betrays just how bad he is when not plagiarising someone else's words. I'm not sure where he'll get a job now, maybe Harry Redknapp, who often takes risks on people deemed untouchable, might bring him in to fix that goal drought?

Word of advice. Don't attack the Giant. (and always have a companion, they make great bait if an elder or blood dragon has a pop). In fact if you can find a giant and some mammoths, lure the dragon their way and let them fight it out and pick off the survivors. Frost trolls are a pain but quite doable once you've passed lvl15 or so. Firebolts are the cbest way forward, then thump them with a very big axe once they're low on HP (i managed 4 of them in a row the other day). Only twice have I found the difficulty level jarring, both undead bosses at the end of a dungeon, but in both cases you could find a technique that worked that didn't involve just brute force, and more paticularly being hit by them.

It's the wide boulevard Otta. You feel safer with the reassuring press of narrow streets and houses that loom rather than sit back and glower.

I'm pretty sure 'Irishman' jokes have been replaced with the 'David Beckham' or 'Blonde' joke these days Ridgely.

He certainly didn't rate the CoD games, though the review of 3 was probably the funniest he's done. I've never got into Starcraft, though have often meant to.

I think he takes the view that he's a critic and there to criticise, he very rarely heaps praise. You could tell he liked skyrim, but that didn't stop him from pointing out its many flaws. Essentially a huge amount of gaming, especially now that we've crossed a strange divide from gaming being about simple and stylised concepts (donkey kong, chuckie egg, pacman, space invaders) to a sort of mimcking of reality, is an exercise in self-delsion. We think these games are incredibly realistic because we choose to. What ZP likes to do is remind us of the inherent absurdities in this. I do love him though, even when he's absolutely pummelling something you hold dear, mainly because he IS very funny, but also because he's pretty much never wrong. I'm thinkikng about things too much again aren't I.

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/want-to-take-anal.jpg it's the triumphal "I knew it" that makes it.

I thin kI may have been all Zeldaed out. They are lovely games but they're prisoners of their own formula now. That said I haven't read any reviews, if they're trying something a bit diferent I could be tempted to actually power up the wii for the first time in ages.

I'm actually crying at work with some of these. "Its nicely trimmed" actually drew a few glances I laughed so hard!

interesting view on SOPA's defeat from El Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/17/beyond_sopa/

In the pre-war period the best you could hope for was to be a doily person! No wonder they were all so pent up and smouldering.

There was that too! Mind you when I hear Robbie Fowler, I just think cocaine.

You don't really think Southampton when you hear Le Seaux, much more Chelsea or Blackburn....or the Guardian. Le Tissier was one of my favourite footballers of all time however, when he could be bothered of course.

I once flew from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago in Chile. Imagine my chagrin when it turned out the Chilean U21 rugby team were on board fresh from the U21 World Cup in Argentina. La Piba had to practically restrain me to keep me on board!!! Easily the most anxious 20 minutes of my entire life (its a very short flight)!

I must say the idea of the book has put me right off ever reading it. 900 pages of sexual tension caused by the glimpse of lace doily sounds as dreary as it gets. Condense it into a nice sunday night 2 parter and throw in a bit of ms Po?sy and some trenches stiff upper lip wot, and I'm happy with that. Thought it was rather good (though not a patch on the Edge of Darkness TV on demand we're watching at the mo).

I'm the same, though I don't think that's especially OCD. Wine really doesn't taste as nice from chicken grease streaked glasses.

For a while as a youngster if i banged my left shin or caught my right thumb in the door, I'd have to cause pain to its opposite appendage, just in the interests of fairness like.

I wasn't even aware it was possible to open crisps upside down. Who would DO such a thing?!

I'm beginning to wonder if my posting my question on the pro cuts thread was a mistake. It was just the first thread I could find that dealt with cuts specifically. I thought it might be good to analyse whehter its time to reassess the policy in the light of the Tory optimism being wholly misplaced (or indeed whether it was just a front so that noone minded too much as they wielded the axe). It wasn't intended to be an implicitly imply that I'm pro cuts.

Aaah I see. So that one table at the bottom negates the whole article, of course how stupid of me, we're not in economic trouble after all. Of course instead of flippancy you could have, quite justifiably, questioned whether the size of the national debt should be the single most important driver of policy of this government when the US stumbles along at 99% (actually now at 101%) and Japan at 234%. But the world is always better for an 'if you like it so much why don't you live there' call.