Category: Games

• November 22, 2015

  Ordinary Retro Gamer: Tom and Jerry, Timon and Pumbaa, Toy Story, and Rambo III

  Most of my gaming has been of the retro variety recently, revisiting some of the classics from the 80’s and 90’s, and some not so classics. Some of these games I had encountered before, and others I stumbled across by chance. Here are a few short reviews of games I’ve been playing. Tom and Jerry…
• November 19, 2015

  Ordinary Retro Gamer

  

  I don’t exactly know what got me watching JonTron, but I can’t stop watching him now. I love his off the wall review style, and his attention to detail. He has a joke or observation for almost every element of the game under review. His reviews of terrible retro games have really gotten me thinking…
• July 16, 2015

  Weird and Wonderful Food, and Experiences

  

  Weird and Wonderful Food and Drink I was complemented on my curry udon eating technique today because of the lack of curry sauce on my white coat – little did they know I spilled it on my trousers instead. Curry udon consists of udon (duh), which are thick wheat noodles, in a curry sauce with…
• June 7, 2015

  Internet Withdrawal

  I started writing in the absence of internet in my Belfast home, but I have been online over the weekend thankfully. A week is too long. If Evil from Time Bandits was around today, perhaps he would not sought to have an understanding of computers, but rather the internet. That is how he would remain…
• May 17, 2015

  I don’t let Sleeping Dogs lie…and the Elections

  Shock horror, this blog post is late. And perhaps an even bigger shock, I am going to talk about some games. I have been playing the odd PC game after the release of the second act of Broken Age stirred my interest in gaming, though I am yet to play that title. It has been…
• February 21, 2015

  Newforge Rings and Tendon Springs

  There I was after a marathon three and a half hours of ring making, casually washing a chopping board, when my thumb decided to try and kill me. Perhaps a tad dramatic, but it was somewhat terrifying, feeling your thumb snap closed beyond your control. I dropped the board and attempted to straighten it again.…
• January 25, 2015

  Into the Woods and Batman

  We ventured Into the Woods and saw the titular film last week, and those woods may just be the same woods from the Evil Dead. They’re every bit as disturbing as the woods in the Evil Dead. What initially appeared to be a children’s film quickly unravelled into something darker with more mature themes than…
• January 1, 2015

  Raspberry Pi is Alive, and the Dawn of the New Year

  The title says it all. The Raspberry Pi-based weather station is reporting live to Weather Underground, allowing access to the weather conditions in Magheralin from anywhere in the world! Trying to get the Pi to do what I wanted was tricky, but the solution was a different program. I changed from pywws to WeeWX which…
• December 30, 2014

  There’s Snow Place like the Mournes, with a Slice of Pi

  The days immediately following Christmas are almost always a blur, after the excitement and preparation for Christmas day. First up was my birthday on boxing day, a day which is traditionally spent entertaining friends and family with little room left for an actual birthday celebration. I enjoy spending time with different people, but it would…
• December 15, 2014

  Hemingwrite and the Humble Mega Drive

  The Hemingwrite is here! (almost) Damn! There are so many things that I want but could never justify, and one of those things is the Hemingwrite I mentioned about in an earlier blog post. It’s a high-tech typewriter, combining a mechanical keyboard with an e-ink screen and not much else. As far as distraction-free writing…