An unwelcome return

Bodily Harm | Service Announcement | penge @ 22:10, June 30th, 2010.

Hello folks. I have returned from the sunny land of Spain, also known as Espana to those crazy locals who live there, and am now back safe and sound within the walls of Randomlinkage Towers.
However, the jolity and general enjoyment of my foreign jaunt has been soured somewhat upon my return. A few days ago I [...]

No, really, I am in Spain

Service Announcement | The Search for Trench | penge @ 09:00, June 20th, 2010.

Hola everyone! Hola, café con leche and Barcelona, I am in Spain.
But really, I really am in Spain. Not just as part of my gabbled ramblings about searching for Mr Trench, which of course I am, but I really am on my summer holiday in Spain. This has been pre-written and hopefully, unless our mysteriously [...]

The Search for Trench: The Whiff of France

The Search for Trench | penge @ 10:00, June 18th, 2010.

Hi folks, or should I say Bonjour? Oui, one should, pomme de terre. That’s right, I am in the delightfully putrid country of France in search of everyone’s favourite smelly person, our very own Mr Trench.
I have endured much for the sake of locating our Lord and Master; I have spent time with French people who [...]

I see you!

Linkage | penge @ 19:49, June 16th, 2010.

Google Street View generally evokes three types of emotions in people:

Wow! Amazing! What can we see? Look, it’s my house! (come on, one of the first things you ‘Google street viewed’ was your own house, wasn’t it? Even though you live there)
Meh. Whatever. Streets. I’ll use it if I need some directions.
Aargh! Invasion of privacy! [...]

Hear me Prime Minister! Hear me!

Current Affairs | Linkage | penge @ 23:30, June 12th, 2010.

We live in a lovely Democratic society, with some sort of curious hybrid Government that nobody really understands but has accepted as ‘the way it is’, and as such we have the power of free speech. We have the power to say what we like and say what we don’t like, and some annoying folk [...]

Ppssst… *whispers* goal!

Sports | penge @ 20:26, June 11th, 2010.

Pppssst! Readers! Over here! I’m in disguise! I have a secret to share with you.
My underground covert sources have acquired priceless information that there is some sort of football soccer game tournament happening in South America, where 322 teams are all playing the football games to win the World Boot trophy-prize.
If you can intercept the [...]

Deus Ex 3 – Shiny swooshy trailer excitement

Gaming | penge @ 23:45, June 8th, 2010.

This trailer is so exciting I watched it and had to change my undercrackers.

Yes, I know it’s all CGI and no gameplay clips, but the music and atmosphere and setting more than makes up for that. The music alone is pretty spectacular to be honest.
Plus there’s a release date of 25th March 2011. That’s less [...]

The cake is still delicious and moist

Gaming | penge @ 20:24, June 7th, 2010.

Credit for this little information blast goes to insane crazed nuclear tomfoolerist Dodd, who informed me about a very exciting sequal soon to arrive on computer gaming type devices.
Rejoice and party and give thanks for the majesty of Portal 2, and presumably GLaDOS and everyone’s favourite weighted cube structure, which will be hitting our game-brains [...]

Holy iTunes Popeman!

Linkage | Music | penge @ 19:29, June 3rd, 2010.

Take a moment to imagine… The Pope. Older fellow, big hat, white robes, kindly face, really big hat, cross, blessed sandals, really properly amazingly big hat that I want, speaks to God and stuff. OK, are you picturing him? Imagine him in the sacred halls of the Vatican or something, surrounded by numerous treasured classical [...]