There was so much awesome packed into The Girl Who Waited that I didn’t manage to fit all my observations and opinions into my review. Here’s the extra stuff: Read More
Addendum to my Girl Who Waited review
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UCAShing in?
So, according to the Graun, 682,514 students applied for university places this year. If we assume that most of them applied to multiple universities (which I think is a fair assumption, but let me know if I’m way off the mark), that makes 600,000X£21=£14,332,794 pounds going to UCAS, or thereabouts. This seems like an awful lot of money – though they do process a lot of applications, and I would imagine overheads are quite high since they’ve got to print pamphlets and (ahem) keep websites going…
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A complaint in the form of a letter
Dear Square Enix,
I arrived home this morning after a brief journey into town to find that Amazon had delivered my copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I was naturally pleased to get my new game, so I grabbed my laptop, popped in the disk, and it began to install. Register on Steam? Fair enough, I like Steam, and it’s good to know I’ll be able to download and play if I scratch the disc or something.
john finnemore
Scott's ticket.
John Finnemore? If you listen to the credits of Radio 4 comedies, you’ll notice his name is a frequent occurance. Anyway, the other evening, I, along with NRB associates Scott and Luke, went to see the recording of some of his new sketch show for Radio 4. While it’s fairly easy to get to London from our general location, it’s still a bit of a hassle, what with having to get a train then a Tube then wander around until you find the darn place, which a bit of a dull slog, even to someone like me, who likes train travel*. Fortunately, our experience was unexpectedly enlivened by a bomb scare.
Review: Doctor Who : The Rebel Flesh
Eee-by-by-gum.
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where ideas go to die
New podcast – Feedburner is messing me around, so it isn’t on iTunes yet, but you can get it straight from the site. Go and listen. Subscribe and review us on iTunes!
A few things. I’ve been spending a little time over the last few days unfollowing people on Twitter and unfollowing feeds on Google Reader. Partly because I was following over a thousand people on Twitter and separating the good from the cruft was becoming increasingly problematic, so I cut it down to 551. I just read this thing which Merlin Mann wrote some time ago. I think I was subconsciously trying for something in this vein – trying to ingest only the best, rather than an absolute cavalcade of crud.
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the same plot
Hello! I’ve had rather a long day, visiting the University of East Anglia in sunny Norwich. Very nice place, and I’ll hopefully be going there in September*. I’ve also been playing Dragon Age 2, which is excellent. I’ve been playing Origins for the last month or so, and the improvement in combat is VAST. The increased immediacy of the combat is such a welcome relief after the sluggish, shuffle-around-to-hit-anyone combat of Oranges. I prefer the Hawke character to the Oranges character, if only because he has a name characters can call him**, but also because his family and background affects you immediately and continuously, rather than in the origin story, wherever you visit that’s relevant and in the epilogue.
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kings place
Last Thursday, NRB associate and hecklr co-host Scott and I took the train up to London (I’m steadfastly refusing to refer to it by a stupid nickname) to watch Peacock and Gamble‘s Emergency Broadcast, which was very funny. At one point, they gave a man a fish. I hope that bit makes it into the podcast (which will apparently be edited down from the two hours of performance to just one). I’ve mentioned the podcast on here before once or twice , and if you don’t already, go and listen to it.
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My idea for a new electoral system.
I haven’t actually seen 300, by the way. This is just to signify that this is the 300th post on this blog. In all honesty, I’m not sure what to write here. I’ve been caught up with other things and I haven’t had time to think of something to write, so instead, I’ll introduce you to an idea for a new voting system that I had.
Just a brief preface to the abrupt change of pace. Around the time of the General Election, I was discussing the idea of electoral reform with my family over dinner. This was before it was apparent that the Lib Dems were going to a)not make any significant gains in terms of seats or b) trade in their principles for the tawdry promise of power from the evil evil Tories (with a few notable exceptions). At the end of the meal I excused myself, promising to come up with a better alternative system. This is that system.
playing the margins
Sadly, I haven’t finished watching Series 5 of The Wire, and nor have I finished Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, so I can’t review either of those things. The one thing I have finished is the January round of my exams, which meant a whiplash-inducing change from virtual penury where free time is concerned (due to all that revision) to whole hours spent doing nothing productive at all – mostly playing Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, which is very good. A refinement in almost every way from Assassin’s Creed 2 (more of which whenever that review is written). It’s also meant that I’ve been thinking about doing other interesting stuff. I’ve got a laundry list of long-term projects to complete in the purgatory between exams and university, but there are a few things I need to start doing inbetween. Firstly, podcasting. Some of the more astute (and dedicated) NRB readers may remember this blog once had a podcast, the NRBcast, which I did with Friend of the NRB (and former contributor) S.C. Wilson. It was rubbish, in all honesty, but it was entertaining rubbish, and fun to do. So, it will be starting again at some point in the near future (I’m aware I said something similar a few months ago, but I mean it this time), probably as the hecklr podcast (and if hecklr doesn’t relaunch, as has been promised for the last however long, the podcast may well become the site).
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