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More goats?!
Goat Simulator has arrived! Well, it arrived last Friday but I’ve been too busy playing it and, at times, doing actual work that I have not got round to writing about it. Fear not, however, as this is the long awaited review of Goat Simulator. Perhaps one of the greatest games of our time, Goat…
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Goats…just goats
Only on the internet could a joke rapidly become one of the most wanted video games. I am talking about the one and only Goat Simulator, the physics based game that has the player wreaking havoc as a goat. It’s an idea so ridiculous, and fantastic that it is hard not to love it. Even…
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Spreadsheets, Rings, and Oculus Rift
Spreadsheets. Both the facilitator of work, and the bane of my life. Whenever a table has 96 columns and 427 rows, that particular table should just be put out of its misery. And all this before the data analysis can even begin. Who knows when I’ll be finished. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But…
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Moshing, Skating, and Thieving
Stiff Little Fingers I’ve had a wealth of interesting experiences in my life: I’ve eaten ice cream with an ex-undercover detective in Calabria, scoffed true deep-dish pizza from the one of the original establishments in Chicago, sampled mancakes in NE Portland, and challenged myself with all-you-can-eat fish and chips in Garibaldi, to mention a…
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Story
This will be a short one, so don’t expect to be blown away. For me, writing has always been about expressing myself, and reflection. Reflection to help me understand and appreciate the experiences I have had. Lately, most of my writing has been scientific in nature, constrained by logic and reason, forcing my creative side…
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Interesting Games
Games have taken a backseat to work at the moment, but I have stumbled across a few interesting titles I would like to get into. Octodad: Dadliest Catch What a peculiar game. Made originally by a group of students from DePaul university, you play a man who, unbeknownst to his wife and children, is a…
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Eight till eight
Sunday working was only the beginning of my long working week. Monday was a marathon of a day which had me busy from 8 am right through to 8 pm, and I spent the next day recovering. The good news is that I finally have data! Not that I’ve actually analysed it, but I’m happy…
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Sunday Working
I find myself in the Batcave (my shared office with a PhD student, Seamus) on a quiet Sunday afternoon, contemplating lab work and life in general, and how I seem to be lacking time to write anything as of late. Things have been fairly busy, but I can barely recollect what I have been spending…
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Rings and More
It was my sister’s birthday on Saturday, and since she is obsessed with equine matters, I thought the best idea was to make a pony cake. I bought a cake pan from Wilton, and made a half vanilla-half chocolate cake to fill it, just because I have no experience in cake carving and didn’t want…
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My top games of 2013
I have loved almost all of the games I played in 2013. Some have become favourites, but others failed to live up to their reputation. I am not the greatest follower of trends, so the games I played this year may not necessarily be current, and don’t expect any sort of sports or driving games.…