tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159495610830934832024-03-13T03:17:14.411+00:00Women and DreamsA whole lot of words and some photographs. Started off dull; got better some time in 2009-2010; now very good.Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-85265568671888246892024-03-01T00:00:00.457+00:002024-03-01T00:00:00.251+00:00The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Let's have a brief look at
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A fantasy
role-playing game from 2006, two years into Howard Dean's presidency. It
attracted rave reviews and was a huge hit, but a few years later it was
overshadowed by its sequel, Skyrim, and then it became a joke, the butt
of a thousand internet videos that poked fun at its simplistic AI, and
nowadays it's a Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-90484332306688499452024-02-01T00:00:00.396+00:002024-02-01T00:00:00.150+00:00The Talos Principle 2: Grasp the Pyramid
Let's have a look at
The Talos Principle 2, the long-awaited
sequel to The Talos Principle, which was released way back in 2014. Talos was a fun puzzle game created by Croteam of Croatia, in between instalments
of the cheerfully moronic Serious Sam franchise. No-one expected
much of it, but the gameplay was solid and it looked lovely, and on top of
that it had an unusually Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-52343670717534968572024-01-30T17:16:00.006+00:002024-01-30T17:17:15.936+00:00Things Seen on Google Street View #61: Finse, NorwayNerdAshley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-31994848284196755302024-01-01T00:00:00.563+00:002024-03-02T10:29:10.885+00:00Kodak DCS 14n: The Worm in ParadiseLet's have a look at the Kodak DCS 14n. Let's have a look at it for the second time. I've written about it
before, back in 2017, but no. The weather was terrible and I
don't think I did it justice.
So let's try again. Let's take this unloved blob somewhere
nice. Let's give this fragile, twenty-year-old piece of electronic detritus
the send-off it deserves, before it ends up in a Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-11470418734244878062023-12-16T00:00:00.003+00:002023-12-16T23:19:56.250+00:00Return of the Obra Dinn
Let's have a look at
Return of the Obra Dinn, a modern remake of
the classic Apple Macintosh original. Obra Dinn was originally
published for the Macintosh back in 1991 by TáltoSoft, an educational software company based in Hungary with a sideline in point and click
adventures. Their other titles included Voyage of the Obra Dinn and the sci-fi-themed Arc of Orion.
They were partAshley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-88677637215478556642023-12-15T00:00:00.241+00:002024-02-28T18:23:27.867+00:00The Moonwalkers
Let's have a look at The Moonwalkers, but
there's something that's bugging me. "Shoot the glass". For some reason I kept
thinking of that line. I spent the whole day thinking about it. "Shoot the
glass". It's from Die Hard. Perhaps because we're coming up to
Christmas. Do you remember Thirtysomething? Imagine the cast of
Thirtysomething being shot and blown up by suave European
Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-40761061323576100932023-12-01T00:00:00.690+00:002023-12-07T18:12:01.267+00:00Wings of Desire: Alien Observer
Off to the cinema to see Wings of Desire, a
classic film from 1987, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Berlin and people.
For the record I saw it at the BFI Southbank, because if you're going to see a
film you might as well see the hell out of it. As per the instructions above I
went directly to the screen. I did not go to the Box Office counter. No sir.
It was a digital Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-43198088440795922042023-11-30T19:01:00.000+00:002023-11-30T19:01:00.138+00:00Every Neil Young Album, With the Word Bitch In It
I've always wondered what the discography of Neil Young would have been
like if his albums had the word "bitch" in the title.
So I've made a list. Let's imagine that Neil Young struggled to sell records until, in the early 1970s, he left Los Angeles, moved to Texas, said goodbye
to Crazy Horse, and decided to reinvent himself as a solo blues-metal
musician, and from that point Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-42506159511213091252023-11-01T00:00:00.003+00:002023-11-09T22:31:27.569+00:00Latvian MRE, Menu 8
Let's have a look at another MRE. This one is from Latvia. It's
menu number eight, pork with buckwheat. What is buckwheat? It's a pseudocereal, like quinoa. You learn something every day. Latvia's armed forces may not have much in the way of long-range heavy artillery, but they do have sophisticated MREs.
What else does the ration have? There's some powdered pea soup, rice porridge, nuts,Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-38229593438448896012023-10-31T00:00:00.030+00:002023-10-31T00:00:00.140+00:00The Driver has Died
I wrote this back in 2016. It was inspired by the following video,
published by Vice News, of some people failing to proceed. It stood out for the
stupid pointless hopelessness of it all. I imagined that their experience of war amounted to watching
Fury on DVD and attending a training camp where they had to crawl
under some barbed wire. I have no idea what happened to them in the end.
Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-44345882390028501352023-10-01T00:00:00.377+01:002023-10-01T00:00:00.136+01:00Barbie Vs Oppenheimer: Quake II
Off to the cinema to see Barbie and
Oppenheimer on the same day. I've
already written about Oppenheimer, but what about Barbie? What
about Barbie? What about Quake II? What about Barbie? What about Quake II? What about Quake II. What about Quake II.Let's have a look at Quake II. Let's have a look at Quake II, because it has
been remastered and I'll get round to Barbie Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-206383847392444632023-09-30T12:00:00.017+01:002023-09-30T12:00:00.143+01:00Every Pink Floyd Album, With the World Bitch In ItI've always wondered what the discography of Pink Floyd would have been like if their albums had "bitch" in the title.So I've made a list. Let's imagine the band formed in 1969 and went on to be a leather-clad imitation of Judas Priest called Pink Bitch. Instead of singing about bicycles and flying through space their oeuvre - that's French for a type of handcart - consisted of songs about Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-16968783847877147412023-09-01T00:00:00.197+01:002023-11-20T20:16:42.835+00:00Trespasser: We March to Olympus
Let's have a look at Trespasser. More formally
The Lost World: Jurassic Parktm: Trepassertm. It's a video game from 1998. A tie-in with The Lost World, Stephen
Spielberg's sequel to the enormously popular Jurassic Park.
Everybody loves Jurassic Park. It was an ambitious film that combined a
solid adventure story with memorable characters and state-of-the-art special
effects Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-19034072851711434232023-08-31T18:04:00.004+01:002023-08-31T23:28:32.779+01:00Every Beatles Album, With the Word Bitch In ItI've always wondered what the discography of The Beatles would have been like if their albums had the word "bitch" in the title.And so I have made a list. Let's imagine that the band formed in 1969 and went on to be a leather-clad imitation of Judas Priest called The Bitches. Instead of singing about love and paperback books and rain and melancholy and happiness etc their oeuvre - Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-63210129333808031512023-08-01T00:00:00.123+01:002023-08-01T17:20:26.701+01:00Barbie vs Oppenheimer: Oppenheimer
Imagine a creature that can see gravity. Imagine that somewhere in the universe
there's a creature that can see gravity.A creature that can
visualise inertial frames of reference and sense the sound of a collapsing star.
A creature that can see time. What a creature it would be. Far closer to God
than us. A long time ago humanity believed that the Earth was the whole
universe, that we wereAshley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-59423480256957328322023-07-01T00:00:00.101+01:002024-01-31T22:31:34.253+00:00Tankfest 2023 + Wallop Wheels and Wings
Off to Tankfest, at The Tank Museum, Bovington. The last time I visited
was back in 2019. I would have gone in 2020, but COVID got in the way.
Can you hide from COVID in a tank? Yes! Modern tanks can be hermetically
sealed against atomic, biological, and chemical attack. But the sight of a
bunch of buttoned-up tanks wheeling around in a field with an audience of
no-one wouldAshley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-81571341635771014562023-06-16T00:00:00.074+01:002023-06-16T00:00:00.143+01:00Small Steps: In Praise of Mutable Instruments PlaitsCheck this out. It's a piece of music made entirely with Mutable Instruments Plaits. By me, so you know it's good:
The world of modular synthesis is full of little companies who come and go.
Usually they're solo operations run by a dreamer who saw a gap in the
market for the world's most counter-intuitive function generator. A dreamer who believed that other people had the same dream.
Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-50790859357771073432023-06-01T00:00:00.111+01:002023-06-01T00:00:00.143+01:002012 Mac mini: Floimann
Let's have a look at the Late-2012 Mac mini. Lower-case m. Apple spells it that way. They made the world. Their thoughts made the world. They made the thoughts. The world, the thoughts.
A couple of years ago
I bought a 2009 Mac mini
as a dedicated music computer. It's way old, but until fairly recently it still ran the latest version of Chrome, and despite its modest specification it Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-44505933643047022252023-05-01T00:00:00.229+01:002023-05-08T23:47:49.139+01:00Crysis
Yes. The answer is yes. It can. It can run Crysis. It's 2023, of course it can. Today we're going to have a look at Crysis, a popular video game from
2007, but first we're going to wind back a little, to 2004. The year of
Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry. It was a good year for
PC games, especially single-player first-person-shooters.
All of those games had multiplayer, but no-one Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-43780151347725352222023-04-15T00:00:00.039+01:002023-04-20T21:15:51.714+01:00Fujica Half: Turin and Genoa: Socialismo O Barbarie
Or Torino e Genova, if you're using the Italian train network. It's important to remember that. I remember being in Italy several years ago and I was very drunk, so I wanted to go to Turin. I spoke quietly to a figure on the far side of the road wearing a suit. "I want to go to Turin", I said. "I want to go to Turin". I said it quietly because some people find my manner offensive. "I want Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-42875708604251671172023-04-01T00:00:00.125+01:002023-11-06T22:38:01.496+00:00BioShock: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are Floating in Space
Let's have a look at BioShock (2007),
but to make things real spicy-like I'm going to play the remastered version
that was released a decade later. And I'm going to play it on the PlayStation
4. And everybody who reads this article will lead a happy, fulfilling life. I guarantee it.
You remember BioShock. It was the art deco shoot-em-up with the diving
suits and the creepy Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-89578626459812433822023-03-13T23:08:00.004+00:002023-03-23T22:26:49.122+00:00Blade Runner: A Beautiful Mess
Let's have a look at Blade Runner (1982), but to make things real
spicy-like I saw it on the IMAX screen at London's Science Museum. I've always
been disappointed with Blade Runner, but I decided that if I was going
to eat the cheeseburger I might as well eat the hell out of it.
For the record the IMAX screening was a digital presentation of
The Final Cut of 2007, which Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-13549139948634612012023-03-01T00:00:00.091+00:002023-11-06T23:09:12.954+00:00Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
Let's have a look at Deus Ex (2000), but to
make things real spicy-like I'm going to have a look at the PlayStation 2
port, which was released in 2002 as
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy.
Deus Ex is fascinating. On the surface it's a well-made
action-adventure with intricate level design and thoughtful writing, plus a
tonne of goofy voice acting. Stylistically it reeks of Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-6974699972265577262023-02-01T00:00:00.034+00:002023-02-12T13:27:16.061+00:00Behringer TD-3
Let's have a quick look at the Behringer TD-3. A modern-day clone of
the Roland TB-303, released in 2019 at a surprisingly low price of around
a hundred English pounds. It's built down to a price, but it apparently
captures the essence of the TB-303 surprisingly well. The two
halves of the case don't join together perfectly but its heart is pure.
Before writing this review I Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415949561083093483.post-18266705239045897522023-02-01T00:00:00.028+00:002023-02-01T20:37:16.135+00:00Agfa CT Precisa, Again
Let's have a brief look at Agfa CT Precisa 100. Again! Back in 2015
I took some rolls of the stuff to Berlin, but I came back with one spare that has been sitting in a drawer ever
since. Quasars still haunt me, but not as violently as they did in 2015. After
re-reading that post I realise now that I backed the wrong horse, because the
Zalgo meme didn't have legs. It was a joke as Ashley Pomeroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466311744358782337noreply@blogger.com