Comically Original Spam Comment
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Uncategorized
Spam comments on blogs are inevitable and most of them are abso’bloody awful. But i’ve just come across this one on picked up by my spam filter that I’m giving 10 out of 10 for originality. (Links have been made safe)
“I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia penis enlargement and being forced to post spam comments on blogs and forum! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. penis enlargement They’re coming back now. vimax Please send help! penis enlargement“
Books I intend to read within the next 6 weeks
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Books
J.D.Salinger – For Esme, with Love and Squalor
Niall Ferguson – The Ascent of Money
Tags: 1984, Books, For Esme with Love and Squalor, Nausea, Niall Ferguson, Orwell, Salinger, Satre, The Ascent of Money
Day-trip to Shrewsbury
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Personal, Photo, travel, trip
Edit: I’ve had problems recently with trying to upload photos on this blog, thus the reason I used the Jpg 2000 format instead of just Jpg. I’ve recently discovered that not all browsers are particularly liking the format and having found out why pictures weren’t uploading properly I’ve now changed the images and should now display on all browsers
Me and a couple of friends decided to go to nearby shrewsbury last thursday (5th August) There was no real purpose to the visit, just did a few touristy things; for example we went around the castle grounds and went to various antique shops. One thing we all seemed to noticed while there was that there were; wether intended so or not, a lot of shops/stalls with pun-based names. One such example; which probably was unintentional, can be seen below with some other selected pictures. We found the pun below funny simply because my mate Dan is currently bingeing on Ayn Rand literature and philosophy so its become very much a regular point of discussion of late.
Tags: Atlas Rugs, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Images, Photos, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, trip
Geek Blast.
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Gaming, Technology, blog, comedy
I currently subscribe to Private Eye and they have recently been doing a series of Comic Strips entitled iBores. The subject matter; as you may have guessed, is about Apple fanboyism which I recognise some could accuse me of being apart of at times. Here are a few examples:
To finish my Geek blast post here’s a comedic music video about a fictional gaming nerd known as Keith Apicary:
Tags: apple, comedy, Comic Strips, Fanboy, Gaming, Geek, Humor, Keith Apicary, Private Eye
Bullshit Alert: i-Dosing
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Drugs, Media
Planned on posting this tomorrow with a little commentary from myself but just come across an article that will more than likely be pubished in tomorrow’s Daily Mail so thought I’d post a little something now.
Essentially i-Dosing is audio that is meant to make people feel like they are taking narcotics and apparently teenagers are taking to it like its the next big thing since meow meow.
When reading articles and watching news items about the story I can’t help but think about the Brass Eye Drugs Episode
Tags: Brass Eye, Drugs, I-dosing, Media, Meow, Narcotic, No Agenda, Panic
My Macbook Dies.
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Personal, Technology, Waffle, blog
My Macbook of five or so years gave up on me this weekend, annoyingly it did so while I was applying for jobs. Fortunately I’d saved my progress and I was able to recover the data from my hard-drive eventually; I did at one point think it had gone too but I hadn’t properly connected the usb clip to it.
I went to the Apple shop Monday to the so called “genius bar”, for the average customer there undoubtedly pretty useful, for me however there less so as I just end up just second guessing everything the “genius” is going to do and being pretty vocal about it. My diagnosis was correct for my Macbook, the logic board had given up, they quoted my £400 for a repair. I didn’t really think it was worth paying that much bearing in mind its age and that the DVD drive also didn’t work. So I eventually managed to by a macbook pro on student discount, good use of it really seeing as it runs out very soon, although the first person I spoke to was reluctant to give it to me due to me no longer being a student at the start of the next academic year. I just went over to another sales assistant who said it would be fine. The reason I say I “eventually” managed to buy a new laptop is not only because of the student discount problem but also because they had just received a new batch of iPads that everyone was going crazy over.
I’m not too interested in getting an iPad myself but having seen one close up; all be it briefly, I can see why there is such a big fuss. However that being said I really do not think iPads are going to revolutionise the newspaper/book industry the way some analysts have predicted. One common argument simply put; although I do wish to go into more detail in another blog post later this week, looking at a screen for long periods of time for reading is hard on the eyes and as far as I can see it will never fully replace print publications. That said, if E-ink technology can take-off, and it would require Apple levels of design and PR to do so, perhaps that sort of technology could push us towards a more digital dominated publication world.
All in all why it’s annoying that my Macbook broke and I had to purchase a new one, I guess getting a new laptop would have been on the cards soon anyway, it could in fact have been a little blessing in disguise as I managed to get good use out of my fleeting student status.
Tags: apple, E-ink, Fail, Genius Bar, iPad, Logicboard, Macbook, Print Media, Student Discount
