This one’s for you, geek friends

Comedy | Computing | Linkage | penge @ 20:00, January 29th, 2009.

This is for the computer geeks out there. The people who laugh at a joke about SQL, the folks who spend their waking hours perfecting their .net code, the good men and women who not only know what a Codec is but have the latest ones installed on their machine for multiple formats.
For those of you [...]

Life lines

Linkage | penge @ 20:22, January 28th, 2009.

Have you ever felt the urge to draw a figure on a screen and then have them dance on a small stage in the centre of a brightly coloured background whilst being surrounded by a great number of their visually similar fellows?
No?
Neither have I, but I still went onto this site, called Pictaps, and drew a [...]

De Blob (Wii)

Gaming | Wii | penge @ 22:35, January 25th, 2009.

Aah, De Blob! A game where you control a small yet charismatic blob of goo around a monochrome city to restore gleaming colour to it’s grey streets by jumping around in pots of paint? Yes please Sir!
De Blob is one of those games that you pick up and play and it’s just fun. You can pick [...]

Would you like to know more?

Movies | Service Announcement | penge @ 21:32, January 22nd, 2009.

Earlier in the week, someone asked me what the “They’re doing their part” phrase at the top of the page meant. I told them it was from Starship Troopers, to which they remarked that they’d never heard of it.
That’s right, they’d never heard of Starship Troopers. Despite my best efforts at re-enacting rememberable parts of [...]

Trolley wally

Observations of Life | penge @ 22:24, January 20th, 2009.

I think I need to share with you a problem that I suffer from. Hopefully someone out there will suffer from a similar psychological issue, which will make my bizarre antics look less strange. Maybe, if I’m lucky, a poor fool will open up their soul to some awful piece of mental behaviour, which means [...]

In your FACE John McCain!

Comedy | Current Affairs | penge @ 07:00, January 16th, 2009.

If only the next President of the United States of the USA had said this on the night he won the race to the White House…

The world would be instantly 100% better.

Randomlinkage Investigates. This week : Rod Stewart

Randomlinkage Investigates | penge @ 22:52, January 14th, 2009.

Question: Rod Stewart asks “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
Objectives: To ascertain whether Rod Stewart is sexy.
Apparatus: Eyes, image of Rod Stewart (see Appendix A)
Method: View image of Rod Stewart, compare against socially recognised standards of ’sexy’, see if Rod Stewart meets these standards.
Result: Image viewed, unpleasant feelings experienced, starting with nausea then developing into vomiting, [...]

In-between the lines

Observations of Life | penge @ 17:15, January 11th, 2009.

Quick question for you. Off-road vehicles, such as Jeeps and Range Rovers and the like, are seen on the telly driving over some of the harshest terrain known to man; across rugged rocky mountains, through enormous gushing torrents of water, into the hearts of burning deserts. They can go anywhere, these adverts say to us, [...]

Nintendo: Destroying my self confidence day-by-day

DS | Gaming | Observations of Life | Wii | penge @ 20:20, January 10th, 2009.

Now look here Nintendo, I am not impressed. I’ve bought your Wii console and all sorts of associated paraphernalia, I’ve got a DS and a DS Lite, I did have a Gamecube. I’ve been loyal to you, so why do you insult me with your ‘lifestyle’ type games?
On More Brain Training could you please stop the [...]

Randomlinkage’s Televisual Highlight of 2008

F1 | Sports | penge @ 20:50, January 9th, 2009.

That’s right folks. A mere 9 days late, it’s time for Randomlinkage’s Televisual Highlight of 2008!
To be honest, this is my own personal televisual highlight of last year. Mr Trench may have a different opinion, which is probably a lot funnier, but I am certain that my choice would be fairly high up on his list.
So, without any [...]

Rabbit death puzzler

Books | Imagery | Linkage | penge @ 10:00, January 6th, 2009.

This is a call for assistance! Someone please help me before I go mad. I have a dead rabbit based query and I would like answers from you, our glorious reading public.
For my birthday in December I received ‘The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides’. Most of you will know what this is, but for those [...]

Tricks? With hats? Yes please Sir!

Linkage | penge @ 14:13, January 4th, 2009.

Here at Randomlinkage Towers we love hats. Mr Trench has often been seen with a trilby perched upon his bonce and indeed I frequently don a fedora to keep my crown toasty and warm.
I’ve always been content with wearing a hat simply for comfort and style, but what if there was another purpose to owning [...]