boreders: a blog about games and geekery
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P is for Photoshop
I have used Photoshop for a long time, but often I feel like I’ve skimmed nothing but the intuitive surface of the application. The version I have is old and secondhand, a disc I picked up somewhere along the way. It works well enough and I don’t have any complaints about the functionality on offer,…
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N is for Nuts
I have become more tolerant of nuts over the years. I have never been intolerant (certainly not in a medical sense), but I never consumed that many or any great variety. I might once have dabbled in peanuts, but these days I’m all about the walnuts, almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pecans, and more besides. Once I…
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M is for Malcolm
Malcolm entered the family as a stray. A gorgeous stray, but a stray nonetheless. He had been hanging around in our back garden for the longest time. I find it hard to work out when a cat lives somewhere and when it’s simply doing the rounds. I take it from the fact that Malcolm now sleeps…
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L is for Lip Balm
For today, I return to h2g2 where I spent many great years. I mean years – given this entry comes from 2007 and my original entries appeared in 1999. Here I handled the subject of Lip Balm Addiction, something that I have struggled with myself. I started playing musical instruments – like the tenor horn…
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K is for Khan
One of my favourites and in turn one of my favourite movie moments of all time has to be Khan, as played by Ricardo Montalbán. While Montalbán undoubtedly had greater fame for other roles (like Mr Roarke from the long-running series Fantasy Island), he played the part of Khan Noonien Singh in the 1967 Star…
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J is for Jam
All the jam I like isn’t even called jam most of the time. Until I thought about writing this, I didn’t even have it straight in my head what the variations in fruit preserves boiled down to (if you’ll pardon the pun). My favourite is Lemon Curd, which certainly sits alongside the jams in my…
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I is for Infirm
I worry about my state of health, both in body and mind. I worry about my friends and family as well, but I can take affirmative action more readily in mitigating my own decline! If I once believed that age would not wither me, I can confirm I was wrong. It obviously does. In the…
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H is for History
History has become the backbone of my life. Well, maybe one of the big bones in my arm. It’s significant. I enjoy history like I enjoy a good book. I enjoy history books more than any other book for that matter. Mind, I’m not necessarily talking about all history. Some of the recent stuff I…