Sometimes you just need to high five the internet. You waste hours of your life aimlessly surfing it and then you discover something absolutely amazing. I’m not sure if Photoshop is involved here. I hope not.
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Garmin Forerunner 110
I’m currently giving the Garmin Forerunner 100 a good run for it’s money around Sevenoaks. Not much to report yet, just getting used to the Garmin Connect interface which records everything you do. I used to judge my performance in a pretty haphazard way by guessing the distance but now I’m going to have access to loads more data. I now feel a bit like Jean Claude Van Damme in Universal Soldier – Steven Wilson-Beales 2.0.
I wonder if this is still a market leader when you consider all the running mobile apps that have been released in recent months. Any way, watch this space.
100 Greatest Movie Insults
This is like so totally sick. I mean OMG some of the language here is so OTT but also quite cool like.
See more like this on kontraband.com
Retro Mags: Eagle, Star Wars and Computer and Video Games
Currently clearing out the flat and came across a series of old comics/mags I used to have as a kid. Took some snaps before they get archived forever!
Anyone remember Eagle from the 80s? Well, here’s issue one and two from 1982. Such an odd comic, really apocalyptic in it’s storytelling, in fact I think the Earth was under some kind of threat on every page be it Mekons or Doomlords. Maybe it was relaunched to try and give 2000 AD a run for it’s money, but as the years went on it tended to become more tame in nature, less disturbing and generally less interesting.
I’ve also dug out some old Star Wars comics and an old Computer and Video Games magazine. So random – brings back GoTo codes all over again. I can’t believe I used to spend hours trying to copy code from magazines only to see them run error reports when hitting the return key.
But good to see that CVG is still going strong
Top tips for writing a dissertation
At the moment I’m in the process of moving house so each night I have the joyous task of packing hundreds of boxes and deciding what to keep and what to throw away. So, imagine my excitement when I discovered my old Literary Theory MA dissertation. Since submitting it back in 1997 I’ve never looked at it – so I thought I’d kill a few hours reviewing it after all these years. Big mistake.
After about ten minutes I had to put it down, I couldn’t understand any of it. And there’s the rub. There’s no reason for writing about anything complex unless you can communicate it simply and effectively. If you can’t, then it probably suggests you don’t really know what you’re on about or, worse, you’re just a pretentious idiot.
So, here’s my advice for all you budding dissertation writers:
- Keep it simple. If you can’t quickly summarize what you’re writing about over a few beers with your mates then something is wrong. Take a break and take a step back
- Take a step back: put the document down and come back to it the next day or even week. Does it still make sense?
- Do you have an argument? Look at the logical progression of your essay. Is it really dialectical? Are you really considering the objections to your main thesis?
- Is it really interesting? If not, why bother?
- Is this essay going to add value to your life in future years? If not, why the hell bother?
- Will you really change the world with this essay? If not, wouldn’t it be better if you set your targets on something more realistic?
- Are all your original thoughts contained in your footnotes? If so, why?
- Are you really trying to be original or are you just collating other people’s thoughts?
- Remember what Orwell said: Stop being a prat and cut down the word length and rhetoric
- Be careful not to step out of the subject of your own research. If you haven’t had training in other areas then it may be harder to balance logical arguments. Do you really want to be a Jack of all trades and master of none?
- Remember, handing in your end of year dissertation often coincides with some of the season’s biggest music festivals. The latter are more important.
I missed out on Glasto ’97 because of this paper. Don’t let this happen to you.
OMG! Attack of the Mutant Camels!
Bloody hell, I spent hours playing this game once. What a complete sad-o!
Why Music Matters – Kate Bush
Hear, hear.
Hitler defends movie copyright
Poignant and downright hilarious.
