Fun with Wii

Gaming | Wii | penge @ 21:02, August 31st, 2006.

The one game on the upcoming Nintendo Wii that everyone will be sick of making jokes about within 30 minutes of purchasing it?
Wii Sports of course. I kid you not.

You, Sir, are a right bastard

Observations of Life | penge @ 16:58, August 31st, 2006.

A few weeks ago, I was walking home in a downpour. A proper torrential one, some sort of tropical monsoon that they’d be fine with in the Amazon but not in Northampton. Unfortunately, I hadn’t taken a jacket to work that day and so was in a humble short-sleeved shirt, which offered me little protection from [...]

Searches that brought people to randomlinkage in April.

Computing | Web | trench @ 22:20, August 30th, 2006.

Apologies for the delay, expect a few more months searches to appear this week to catch up. To make up for it, there’s some scorchers for April.

20 virgins
busty wenches
muscle man
wedding crashers ma the meatloaf fuck
www.public weeing.com

Those seeking busty wenches, a muscle man and the fantastically specific “20 virgins”, (no more, no less), left empty handed, [...]

‘Wrong Guy’ – The Movie

Movies | penge @ 22:32, August 29th, 2006.

Some of you will recall that a while back, a chap called ‘Guy Goma’ was mistakenly interviewed live on BBC News 24, when really he was only at the BBC for a job interview. Click here for a bit of archive action.
If it were made into a movie, would you go and see it? No, [...]

Trench’s DVD claptrap #1.

DVD | Insanity | Movies | trench @ 21:48, August 29th, 2006.

First in a possibly ongoing series. (Remember readers, you too can recount the day when you were there when it all began.) Now, many of you know that I have a passion for films. My tastes are pretty broad which isn’t necessarily a problem, unless you factor in that I am also completely unable to [...]

Your eyes are not malfunctioning.

Service Announcement | trench @ 15:33, August 27th, 2006.

Rob Lowe: We’re thinking about making a few changes to the show.
Garth: Change is bad. We fear change.

I’ve messed around with the site’s appearance. Broadly speaking I’m pretty happy with the way it is now. I’ll be tinkering with the layout of comments at some point though.
I’m leaving things ‘as is’ for a bit for [...]

A Plea – Please do not excessively mock me

Geek | Music | Observations of Life | penge @ 15:00, August 27th, 2006.

We all have things that we generally keep secret for fear of extreme mockery and humiliation. More often than not, a dead cert for embarassment is telling everyone the first ever single you ever bought. I’m sure that some people lie and say they bought a really good single, a defining piece of music for [...]

Things I learnt from Zardoz.

Armageddon | False Role Models | Insanity | Movies | trench @ 02:06, August 27th, 2006.

I watched Zardoz when I was about 12 or something, because I had seen it mentioned in a book about Sci-Fi films. I’ve just seen the title mentioned over at The Engine and had an Event Horizon-style flashback.
Things I learnt from Zardoz:

The penis is evil
Never want/need to see Sean Connery in a nappy ever again
Giant [...]

Filmfour picks: 26th August-1st September 2006

Movies | Television | trench @ 18:01, August 26th, 2006.

Apologies for the lack of listings last week, from what I recall there wasn’t too much on anyway. Regardless, please base your life over the next seven days on the following:

Saturday – Audition @ 12:15am, Miike’s brilliant offbeat drama thing with a brutal conclusion.
Sunday – Frankenstein @ 3:00pm, resist the opportunity to quote Young Frankenstein [...]

One more reason I love The A-Team.

Comedy | Television | trench @ 00:48, August 26th, 2006.

*Hannibal and Face are riding a motorbike whilst being chased by military police cars and the evil Colonel Lynch*
Not once, but twice they perform a death-defying jump to escape their persuers. Both jumps are notable because:

The heavy Harley Davidson type bike mysteriously transforms into a light dirtbike whilst in the air, then back again upon [...]

Tea vs Water. Tea wins!

Linkage | Science / Technology | Tea | penge @ 20:56, August 24th, 2006.

Glorious news, tea drinkers! After years of listening to people whine on about how “it’s healthier to drink water than tea, tea dehydrates you, blah blah horrible dehydrating tea blah whinge”, the scientists of our good planet have come up with a remarkable discovery.
Tea is a HEALTHIER drink than water.
That’s right, tea, the tasty and [...]

What will MacGuyver do?

Geek | SF | Television | trench @ 00:05, August 23rd, 2006.

Following on from mr Penge’s excellent news earlier, yet another Sci-Fi series has been cancelled. Sadly, this one got rather further than just the planning stages and somehow staggered around for ten stinking seasons.
Say goodbye to the wretched, mediocre mess that is… Stargate SG-1.
Now I don’t have a list of complaints about SG-1, aside from [...]

We are spared the misery

Linkage | SF | Television | penge @ 17:03, August 22nd, 2006.

Thankfully, Aunt Beeb has come to her senses and cancelled the potential second Doctor Who spin-off show. I’m a big fan of Doctor Who but this spin-off would have been awful.
Firstly, it would have followed the adventures of Rose Tyler (Billie Piper’s character), who we all thought was gone forever. Surely that was the point [...]

Snakes on a review.

Bodily Harm | Movies | trench @ 22:05, August 21st, 2006.

I don’t think there’s any point doing a conventional review of Snakes on a Plane. You either find the idea of Samuel L. Jackson fighting 500 deadly snakes on an airplane exciting or… you’e not the kind of person that reads randomlinkage.
Look, here’s a quick ‘taste test’ to decide if it’s your thing.
Samuel L. Jackson [...]

I’m not hungry any more

Observations of Life | penge @ 18:00, August 19th, 2006.

At the moment it is the school holidays. There are a few plus points to this, such as there being less traffic on the roads on the morning, there’s less noise around the school in the morning and evenings, it makes us reminisce about the good old days when we had 6 weeks off with [...]