boreders: a blog about games and geekery
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Don’t Blink
Christmas morning… a time for presents, heaps of waste paper, and embarrassing pictures of people gurning with their presents clutched in hand. Why, however, do people expect you to smile and present yourself eyes-wide-open when they’re shooting with an ultra bright flash. You can’t reasonably expect people to overcome their natural instinct to shield their…
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Foot Ache
Having spent the last 10 days resting, I’m finally getting to the point where I feel the need to drive. Gotta drive, have to drive. Seriously. My foot shows signs of real improvement, but a dull twinge persists. Should I push it? Shouldn’t I? I don’t know. I suspect my ‘nurse’ would tell me to…
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SJA: The Day of the Clown
I love anything rooted in mythology or modern day artifacts. That’s why episodes like ‘Blink’ work, because you take something commonplace and give it a disturbing spin. Clowns don’t really need much work to make them disturbing. ‘The Greatest Show in the Galaxy‘ may not have been the height of the Seventh Doctor’s adventures, but…
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Damned Snow
Having breathed a sigh of relief in my last post that Manchester didn’t get the snow reported at the time, I can say we did get a bit on Tuesday. I know, because the first footstep I took outside met with a surface like glass, and I ended up crashing to the floor, twisting my…
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No Snow
Looking at the news, I’m glad that snow didn’t hit Manchester. Mind you, that’s not to say I might not have to content with it tomorrow if I start heading off away from Stockport. Which I will. Mind, I have checked the Internet and the only reference I can find about ‘snow’ in respect of…
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Intrigued Dot Com
I find myself befuddled at the power of crap advertising. I’m sure most companies spend dissimilar amounts on advertising – some, like car ads, no doubt involve massive sums of cash falling into the hands of marketing people you wouldn’t care to share a meal with (for fear they might cause it to come back…
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Man in the Stupid Hat
Monday morning, I noticed that the motorway sign somewhere between the Altrincham turn-off and the M6 on the westbound M56 had the message “Don’t hog the middle lane”. On the way home, I found the sign on the opposite side of the road at the same point echoed this message. I wish, oh I wish,…
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Brain Drain
Concentration slipping. Can’t listen long. Can’t read more than a sentence. Good article. Not seen before. Intranet rots your… Um… What was I saying?
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The Next World
…or “I Was Sarah Jane Smith for a Day”. Just back from an enjoyable day at Game 2008, at the Armitage Centre in Fallowfield, Manchester. Aside from some meandering around trade stalls, I played a 5 hour demo of the new Doctor Who role-playing game, from Cubicle 7. While Cubicle 7 has delayed release of…