Well when I woke up this morning and discovered Neil Gaiman had been tweeting about it, I might have had a little bit of a squee.
Oh yes indeedy.
Check out the hashtag #dalekbooks. I'm in love with this tweet from daibhidc.
Showing posts with label geekishness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geekishness. Show all posts
Friday, 21 October 2011
Remember...
...this post about the amazingly gorgeous illustrations that tanaudel is doing for The Dalek Game?
Well when I woke up this morning and discovered Neil Gaiman had been tweeting about it, I might have had a little bit of a squee.
Oh yes indeedy.
Check out the hashtag #dalekbooks. I'm in love with this tweet from daibhidc.
Well when I woke up this morning and discovered Neil Gaiman had been tweeting about it, I might have had a little bit of a squee.
Oh yes indeedy.
Check out the hashtag #dalekbooks. I'm in love with this tweet from daibhidc.
Friday, 14 November 2008
One of the...
...many lovely new blogs I discovered due to that nifty Black Boxes widget is Windmill Watching. At least I think I found it via the widget...it might have been via cJane instead.
Anyhoo.
Yesterday she posted up some pictures illustrating the high high prices of petrol in the USA.
As a Brit I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Then I did some Googling and some Maths.
With the help of PetrolPrices.com, the X-rates currency calculator and Google itself, I discovered the conversion rates.
Prices are UK averages from 12/11/08 (that's the 12th of November or 11/12/08 for the Americans)
Type / Pence per litre / Pounds per gallon / Dollar conversion
Unleaded = 95.4p / £4.34 / $6.42
Diesel = 109.1p / £4.96 / $7.34
LRP = 102.9p / £4.69 / $6.93
Super Unleaded = 102.5p / £4.66 / $6.90
While I do feel sorry for the Americans who have never had to deal with such high fuel prices before...this goes a little way to explain just why any British friends laugh hysterically when you complain about high fuel costs.
Anyhoo.
Yesterday she posted up some pictures illustrating the high high prices of petrol in the USA.
As a Brit I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Then I did some Googling and some Maths.
With the help of PetrolPrices.com, the X-rates currency calculator and Google itself, I discovered the conversion rates.
Prices are UK averages from 12/11/08 (that's the 12th of November or 11/12/08 for the Americans)
Type / Pence per litre / Pounds per gallon / Dollar conversion
Unleaded = 95.4p / £4.34 / $6.42
Diesel = 109.1p / £4.96 / $7.34
LRP = 102.9p / £4.69 / $6.93
Super Unleaded = 102.5p / £4.66 / $6.90
While I do feel sorry for the Americans who have never had to deal with such high fuel prices before...this goes a little way to explain just why any British friends laugh hysterically when you complain about high fuel costs.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Now, I am a geek...
...for World of Warcraft and I freely admit it. Recently I haven't been playing so much, knowing that as soon as WotLK comes out I will be straight back into it again. I've even been dabbling with Guild Wars - Emily's MMORPG of choice.
Then yesterday came a bright shiny new patch, the last one before WotLK comes out. I'm in love with the game all over again.
They've done the usual thing and tweaked all the talent trees so you have to re spend your points, but they've also done things like adding your mounts and pets to your character. This means that instead of buying a mount/pet and having it take up a space in your bags, it becomes a little icon in your mount/pet screen and then you just click there. More bag space is always good!
My favourite thing so far is the achievements addition. Now I like exploring the world I'm playing in so I tend to go wandering about areas where I don't have quests and don't really need to go - according to other players I'm "wasting valuable levelling time". For me the game has always been about the whole thing, I don't need to get my fishing skill up to 350, it won't make me level any quicker or get me l33t gear to show off to other people. I just like doing it.
The achievements thing means that I will be earning points for all the "silly time wasting crap" that I like to do. That's a very good thing. It also means that I'll be playing my level 70's more, trying to finish off the last bits I'm missing for achievements. (My general love of exploring means I've got lots of points for that already!)
So in conclusion, I am a geek. But a very happy one.
Then yesterday came a bright shiny new patch, the last one before WotLK comes out. I'm in love with the game all over again.
They've done the usual thing and tweaked all the talent trees so you have to re spend your points, but they've also done things like adding your mounts and pets to your character. This means that instead of buying a mount/pet and having it take up a space in your bags, it becomes a little icon in your mount/pet screen and then you just click there. More bag space is always good!
My favourite thing so far is the achievements addition. Now I like exploring the world I'm playing in so I tend to go wandering about areas where I don't have quests and don't really need to go - according to other players I'm "wasting valuable levelling time". For me the game has always been about the whole thing, I don't need to get my fishing skill up to 350, it won't make me level any quicker or get me l33t gear to show off to other people. I just like doing it.
The achievements thing means that I will be earning points for all the "silly time wasting crap" that I like to do. That's a very good thing. It also means that I'll be playing my level 70's more, trying to finish off the last bits I'm missing for achievements. (My general love of exploring means I've got lots of points for that already!)
So in conclusion, I am a geek. But a very happy one.
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