Monday, January 12, 2009

Part Two: Nonprofessional

Just F**K! and Christmas Joy to you all
After spending three weeks in what seemed like the stone age; without an internet connection or computer, its great to be back home to put my addictions at rest. Though fear not, a man of my statue is very resourceful in any circumstance and during my Christmas vacation Major Sheppard and I completed recordings for the first episode of Blankmind's podcast! With many set backs things were running smoothly again, or I thought so, until I got the surprise that recordings were left back in England. Though also being a very sharing kind-of-guy, I also gave my whole flat a surprise with my anguish at 1 in the morning (and so the universe is balanced again). As a side note, could you send me the recordings again Sheppard? Thanks. Now that I've established that we here are no where near professionals, let me continue with this notion in the second part of my special posts. Realizing the formality of my last post, I wanted to do something a little less serious. Oh, don't worry, no bad music videos this week, even I have my limits, but instead I thought about collecting some fun links for you all.

The Special Part: Crap from My Bookmarks
Its been along time since I did something for the Crap from the Internet section, but I think I've got enough bookmarks and images now to at least share something. Very few people have seen my bookmarks, and there's a good reason for that, but I'm sure you you'll believe me when I say they are in a highly ordered structure with... yeah like anyone will believe that. So lets have a look here, as I don't even remember what I have. But here are a few links, in particular order, that I think are 10 most essential:

1. Anonymouse.org - Surf the Internet Anonymously.
2. Photobucket.com - One of the robust image hosting services.
3. Deviantart.com - For your viewing pleasure.
4. Minitokyo.net - Viewing pleasure with an abstract and anime focus.
5. Gendou.com - That interesting music is here.
6. Download.com - Need a program for something?
7. Vgcats.com - Internet Comic
8. xkcd.com - Internet Comic for geeks.
9.
ZeroPunctuation - Game reviews made by a highly critcial, non-stop, British reviewer.
10. Onemanga.com - Manga Online.

Alot shorter this time, but part three, the final special post, will be made, claming the glory ofthe biggest post yet.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Chrstmas and The New Year

Well it’s been sometime since my last post, we’ve seen a new president elected, Home has come to the public, and I’m still just as poor, well maybe not.

So, you’re probably wondering what happened to our podcast, well its coming, very soon, Akamaruu will be working on the final edits over the next week or so (as we are both back to respective universities on Monday). I’ll take a moment to mention last year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, which I thought was brilliant, nice to see the cybermen make a return to the screen.

Christmas was a good one last year, lots of different things, including some games that we discuss on the first episode, it was followed shortly after by our traditional shopping trip to Birmingham, at which time I brought some more books, (I’ve now started another 3 series of manga, giving me a total of 7 different series to finish, so I think I’ll stop buying new series for awhile).

So, onto this years news, well sometime this year Blankmind may be starting an official website, but were going to see how the show goes first. I’ll be starting up a website for my different works, at the moment it will consist of things made on the university course, and a few things made in my spare time. I’ll update here when that’s up and running.

Well I’m going to make this post short, I’ll post a longer one next time, and update you all on how the first week of the second semester is going.