Monday 1 November 2010

I like trains

In honour of the new film about trains "Unstoppable", I threw this together





Because I like trains.

Friday 8 October 2010

New Page Added!

Don't ignore it - the Animations, Games and Doodles page has been added. I'll be updating it reasonably frequently, and it's worth taking a look. Well. Obviously that's an opinion, but why not find out if you agree or disagree with me?

/Schlemmons

Time for a little picture

If you haven't gathered by now, I'm sort of a jack-of-all-trades and, of course, master of none.


Alongside writing, blogging and guitar playing (which I am yet to post anything about on this blog, but trust me, it's coming) I also draw stuff. I use Fireworks 8 for my still images, and Flash 8 for any animated tidbits I may decide to make.


Anyway, I'm currently a part of the (oversized, poorly organised) team running my college's Physics Society (in case you didn't think I was uncool enough yet). It looks good on a Personal Statement OK? This is the Physics Society logo I came up with - it goes on the end of all the emails I send out, as I'm correspondence.



I was going for a clean but reasonably stylish image, with a small file size. What do you think?

/Schlemmons

Thursday 30 September 2010

Googlewhacking

Honestly, this post is totally SFW, despite the way it sounds...

Tuesday 28 September 2010

The Wiki Game

What with having nothing in the way of interesting thoughts today, I thought I'd introduce you to an interesting time-waster. 

Monday 27 September 2010

South African Story

Sometimes I write short stories. The narrator in this isn't me, although I have incorporated some vague memories about my time in South Africa in it.



Sunday 26 September 2010

If you're my age, you have about 6 months left to live

And this is why:


Time. We're always hunting for more- personally I can't, and don't want to, imagine what happens when time runs out for me and that's that. I don't know if I believe in a God or if I believe that I won't even notice it. I guess the scientific part of me, the part that looks into the night sky and sees only giant fusion bombs and hunks of rock, doesn't believe in a God. But then a part of me, the part motivated entirely by not-wanting-to-die, would like to think that there's more to life than just life.

Heavy stuff for a second post I know, but bare with me, I do have a point.

I would like to live for as long as possible. And I'm sure, barring suicidal tendencies, so would you. I don't mean just living either. I mean actually being healthy (and sane), which as we all know is something you can't really expect in old age. And why do we want to live as long as possible? Evolution. If we'd all wanted to die, we as a race would have shuffled off the mortal coil a long time ago by simply queuing up to shuffle off a cliff.

So the point: (Almost) everybody wants more time in this life, but look at how much we just waste. I'm a young, healthy person with prospects, and I'm spending a good half an hour writing a blog post. I spent 2 hours before that watching some really, really bad TV. I don't even like snooker, why would I watch it? To kill time. Wait, kill time?

Aha. So there it is. We hate time. Time is what separates Now Me, who is writing a blog to no one in particular, from Future Me, who is on a Roller Coaster to the moon and making out with Jessica Alba, or something to that effect. Like an episode of Flashforward, life is mostly filler. In fact, if we condensed all of the time we actually spend doing something we enjoy into one period of time, isolating the good from the gut-wrenchingly boring- school, work, travelling and so on- we would find that our time on this Earth is even shorter than we thought. I reckon I could narrow my 17 years down to a month or so, maximum.

So there you go. Life is short. In the UK, the life expectancy of the average male is about 77 years. For me, that means I expect to actually live about 6 months, give or take a lifetime, depending on whether or not I ever get up off my ass and do something worthwhile with my life.

I see it as unlikely.

/Schlemmons

Don't make Schlemmonade; that's cannibalism.

Well, bugger me that was a surprise. I have made a blog. Because I saw that my friends had, and because I'm bored, in case you were wondering (which you're not because literally no one is reading this).

So what will I post here? I don't know. I'm fully aware that's a bad start, but I don't care. Part of me would like to write scathing, witty social commentaries in the vein of Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell's Guardian columns. The rest of me knows that I will never be able to do that. But if I don't do something on this page then really, why did I waste my time writing all of this?

So I'll sleep on it. That's what I'll do. Not that sleeping on it ever helps- when are you supposed to do the thinking? While you're asleep? Is that possible?* If you do the thinking while you're awake, are you really sleeping on it?*

Well, that was unoriginal and uninteresting. I think I'll try my luck at this some other time...

/Schlemmons

*Answer: no.