Thursday, February 24, 2011

New Tablet!

I got a drawing tablet! I've been having some fun getting used to a pen/surface interface, instead of a nipple.


Have some sample pictures! I took some photos with my camera, and did a bit of silly editing in GIMP/Paint.





Also, Squid. FUCK YES SQUID.
Squid can Breathe Underwater, You cannot. Therefore, You will never be as cool as a squid



ROBOT BRAH!

I have no life.

Monday, February 21, 2011

How to Play Red Rover

Possibly the greatest of all the team-based open-field tag games, Red Rover will be forever remembered by school-aged children as the game where you tackle each other to a pulp when the teachers aren't looking, and "Red Rover" when they are.

The Rules

Take one (1) average sized Rugby, soccer, AFL, or softball field, or Basketball court or Open highway. Line up on one side, with all but "It" on one side of said. "It" stands in the middle.


  
Traffic Optional   




Next, the person who is "It" challenges one or more of the group to single combat, much like the Samurai of Ancient Feudal Japan. This person, however, must escape like a coward to the safe lands of Taiwan, like the Ninja of Ancient Feudal Japan. Seriously, warfare in Ancient Japan was all just sharpened variants of Children's playground games.

When challenging, "Red Rover Red Rover I call over [Name]" is appopriate. "COME AT ME BRO" is not.




If this stealthy wind-passing-in-the-night is successful, the process repeats until everyone is safe. But if "It" catches his challenge, that person also becomes "It", making it twice as difficult for the next person who is challenged. Continue from one end of the field and back again until everyone is "it".

Things can be difficult for the last man standing
 


Finally, if the person who is "It" calls "BULLRUSH", everyone who is on one side of the field must get to the other, making it harder to dodge and escape their attacker(s). It's a good tactic for those "it"s who are too slow to catch anyone else (and it's usually the fat slow kid who is "it").


Before the Special "Playgound Games" sitting of the Geneva convention, games of Red Rover could often get out-of-hand.




So, now you know how it's played! So find your nearest school/playground, and get to tackling some ten year olds!



Sunday, February 20, 2011

Ideas Man

Sometimes, I get ideas. Brilliant ideas. Like, imagine a children's show, like Thomas the Tank Engine, but with four wheel drive cars. It could be called Harry the Hummer!

"OH NO, The Unnecessarily Obese National Park Ranger requires another off-road rescuer!" cried harry as a rapper tried to add 40 inch rims to his body.

And it could deal with real world issue that children have. Like one day when Neil the Nissan Patrol gets a new bullbar, all the other cars make fun of him for having a "Metal Mouth". But after a terrible accident, he gains a new perspective about protective equipment designed to help you;



The moral is: Having pieces of Steel bolted to your face isn't as bad as it seems.



Or another episode, where Larry the Landcruiser Prado tries to prove that he's just as awesome as his Big Brother.
It doesn't end well


Or that time when the Suzuki Brothers make fun of Harry for being totally fat. Cause he's a hummer. And they're pretty huge.

Seriously America, Get laid.

So, that's my idea. If anybody from the ABC, SBS or CTW are watching this, call me.







WELCOME ONE AND ALL

Hey all, since this is my... Third post in so many, um, a long time, I figured I could tell you about myself and... stuff.

So, with further ado, stuff! (and Myself)

Okay, to begin with, this is me:


Note Healthy Brown Colour, pockmarks, and general lumpynes.



I suppose I'll explain: I'm quite overweight, but I'm currently trying to loose the excess globules through a regime of exercise, healthy eating, and regular self-mockery. This is not going well at this point, but surely my ideal self-image is just around the corner!



Artist's Rendition



I guess that's enough about my body, let's talk about my brain!

I have problems, real problems.

There are thoughts in my head that I simply cannot describe. I have been said to have an "active imagination". I'm to assume that means that I think weird thoughts.


A beautiful summer's day in the Eternal Sunshine of My Spotless Mind


Now that you're accustomed to my magnificence, I though I could share some of my loves and hobbies. If I can still legally call them "Hobbies" after the hearing.

I often find myself in the bush with a large Four-Wheel-Drive and a whole expanse of nature to destroy. Sometimes even deliberately. Or because my GPS has once again tried to direct me to the lost Brittany city of Ys. On these occasions, I simply drive in a straight line until I hit a road


Villages and the people therein do not count as roads


 
I'm am also an Amateur photographer, which I hope to turn into a career at some point, which would be awesome if I could.



An Example of my work: Not Humorous



 
Along with my Photography, I enjoy Music. Listening, making, general talking-about... ing. Ing.

Please, however, don't ask me who my favourite artists/songs/genres/unrelated breakfast cerals are, because the answer you will inevitably get is "Oh, er, um, I like...music and the such."

So yeah, feel free to ask my opinion of Individual songs/artists/etc., but don't expect me to list mine out off the top of my head.


Finally, my favourite Hobby of all time is this: Picking up and vaugely barrel shaped/phallic object and pretending I'm a super cool action dude, making all shooting bad guys with a never-runs-out-of-bullets machine gun. And then I flip the barrel shape/phallic object and play a wicked awesome mouth-guitar solo before getting all serious again and resuming my hunt of my various arch nemeses' henchmen.




You have to be pretty damn awesome to properly render this image in your braind



I think that I will let you contemplate and digest what you have experienced at this point: More on me at a later date.

CJ