On Mosquitoes
Evolution is a funny thing.
Take sharks for example. A few million years of evolution and you end up with a perfect, efficient killing machines. As Richard Dreyfuss explains in Jaws, all a shark does is eat, swim and make little baby sharks. They’re top of the food chain. Don’t believe [...]
Kubrick Exhibition in Palazzo delle Esposizioni
This is mainly a self-reminder to get my lazy ass up to this - loads of documents, scripts, costumes and models from Kubrick’s movies. Main interests are the model of HAL (nerdgasm!) and the Zeiss lens used to shoot Barry Lyndon by candlelight
All work and no play
No country for old men*
Recently, the Italian government passed a draft of a law that would require all bloggers and users of social networks to register with the state and even pay a tax for using the internet. Ignoring the logistics of enforcing such a ridiculous, unenforceable law, it’s safe to say that it wouldn’t last for [...]
This party’s dead anyway
The temperature here has plummeted. We’re talking two-duvets cold. To the point where I’m now squatting over the toilet to avoid touching the cold, cold toilet seat. Our apartment building uses centralized heating, but doesn’t turn it on until the first of November, so until then we’re putting our air conditioning [...]
I Played Through Half Life 2: Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)
This is why achievements systems are such a work of genius - they allow for completely bizarre, completely hilarious scenarios.
Why the Games Media Awards are fucked
Games Website – News - Winner: Eurogamer.net
Games Website – Reviews & Features - Winner: Eurogamer.net
Writer in Specialist Digital Media - Winner: Tom Bramwell (Eurogamer.net)
I will quite happily read any old junk about videogames, but even I draw the line at Eurogamer, which regularly features some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen. Inflated, self-important [...]
Short visit home
Just so’s y’all know - we’re heading home tonight for a week of catching up with all our friends that we haven’t seen and stocking up on food we can’t get. We get back into Dublin tonight at midnight, then head back to Rome next Wednesday sometime.
If anyone’s around for a drink or [...]
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
It’s t-shirts like this that make me wish I still had disposable income.
