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Engineers doing push-ups :

The reason that engineers figured out that rolling up their sleeves is more useful than just pushing up their sleeves? Pushing your sleeves up is inefficient. Engineers don’t like having to do the same thing twice. Wearing a t-shirt is an optimization step. 🙂

: Game Programming and Game Development :

Comfy chairs :

I don’t mind being outside my comfort zone, I just wish it had more comfortable seating.

Helping out :

Imagine what could be achieved if the 4 billion humans on this planet freely gave just 60 seconds each day to helping a stranger. It is a hopeful thought. Unfortunately the cynic in me says “Yes, 100 million people helping out and 3.9 billion people standing around telling them they’re doing it wrong and moaning that they were late… Continue reading the rest of “Helping out.”

Dark roasted Christmas beans :

Yeah yeah, I know it’s only October but I am discontinuing the light roasts and shifting to a dark roast for the Christmas season. Expect the dark roast Christmas blend to run from 1st November through to 20th of December at which point in time I will figure out something else. The darker roast, which… Click to continue reading the rest of the post

Compounded problems :

I am definitely not the first to realise this, but… Compound interest is a magical thing to behold.

Thieving wanker :

ZX Microfair was a lot of fun and a lot of pain. Some wanker walked off with an entire box of tapes. I lost over 200 quid of stock. That’s 200 quid that it cost me for tapes and printing. He just walked up and took the box from in front of me. I had… Click this link to read the rest of the article

ZX Microfair bound :

My Dad is driving me up to Alexandra Palace tonight so I can set up the table at the Microfair. Will have a couple of new games for sale. This is going to be my third Microfair and I’m hoping that this time around I can find a publisher to work with.

Ignorant or retard? :

Have you noticed how when you state a fact or answer a question, the person who didn’t know, calls you the retard? “Well I didn’t know that, did I? Retard!” It has got to be some kind of mental defense mechanism to make themselves feel better at your expense. Also, when uttered in a social… Yearning to read the rest of “Ignorant or retard??” Use this link!

One lump or two? :

I like my coffee, the same way I like my women: “Hot. Strong. And bitter.” As opposed to: “Ground up and in the freezer.”

How many senses? :

It is said that blind people have a more acute sense of hearing to compensate. It is why people with no sense of humour have such an acute sense of self-importance.