Duck News Flash

The ducks are doing very well, every morning each of the females usually lays one egg, which is quite good because there are six females. So at about 8:15 after I’m dressed for work I’ll head up to the top of the garden where the ducks are and I’ll let them out of their hutch into their brand new run so I can open the hutch and retrieve the 4-6 eggs that they laid that morning.

Brand new run = We have built a block paved area for them with a proper pond!

New Duck House with block paving

New duck aviary with block paving and pond.

We still need to put them away at night because they are too noisy in the early hours to leave out, especially when it’s a hot weekend night and all the neighbors have their windows open and the ducks have woken at 0600 on a Sunday and are quacking their head off because they are shagging in the pond….

Comic Sans

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.

You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.

People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.

It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.

Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

By Mike Lacher

Last.fm… but for software!

Software tracking

Nice find monkey.

Jäger

I’m pleased to introduce the newest member of my family…. Jäger the German Shepherd Dog

German Shepherd Puppy

Paula and Jäger

Obviously Jäger is in addition to the eight ducks and the cat we already have. I’m just wondering at which point our home will no longer classify as house and instead becomes a farm.

Asssplitter

One of the ducks laid a crazy huge egg, it weighed 164g with two yolks. See Paula holding it next to a normal one in the photo below, she was also the one that took great pleasure in cooking it and eating it for herself.

Monster Duck Egg

Monster Duck Egg

As warmonkey said: Jesus Christ, it’ll have an ass like a bowler hat now.

Wedding Plans

We’ve both had to start attending Church! I suppose if this is the worst thing to come out of planning a wedding I suppose it can’t be that bad.

Virus Writers

…these people surely can’t be stupid, they write what must be considered clever code, they figure out ways of avoiding detection and then think of ingenious ways of delivering their content. It’s at this point they fall down, viruses are easy to spot.

Why are their English language skills so bad? Is it an in-joke I’m missing, that coders only ever speak in Ingrish?

Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 Wallpaper

Modern Warfare 2 Wallpaper

I have Modern Warefare 2 on my x-box 360

The general view by most critics and the media is that this is one of the best games of the decade – how wrong could the critics be. Admittedly the online game-play is damn good, there are over ten different on-line modes so when you compare it to the benchmark of online first person shooters that is Counter-Strike there is quite a lot of bang for your buck. Unlike it’s rival MW2 doesn’t have that balance that CS posses. Admittedly everything looks amazing graphically but most new games do (I have Far Cry and that made me sit back and go wow) and tbh better graphics don’t make a game superb. Single player is waaay too short and the plot is pretty shit if you ask me but the level design is beautiful and easily makes up for this. I think this game has only shifted so many units because of the media hype (and media coverage owing partly to the infamous airport scene where you annihilate a departure-lounge chock-full of innocent and unarmed public with a fully automatic machine gun). Although these games are great because it’s nice when everyone has owned a particular game or at least played it:- Everyone loves making references to their favourite pop thing be it quoting Anchorman  jokes or making in-jokes about Star-Wars and I don’t think computer games should be any less referenced in popular culture. It’s also good that everyone knows how to play a game like that, e.g. I went over to my cousin Matthew’s house and we just jumped in to a co-op game on the PS3 together. Even Paula has got to grips with the game – her favourite level being the co-op level based on the snow level with sniper rifles and silencers – this in itself is a true testament towards the game if she wants to pick the game up again to repeat play. Ok, so maybe my mind’s been changed by the end of writing this. It’s still hardly a revolutionary game, it doesn’t bring anything new to the field of FPS so I’d give it a 9/10.

Proposal

Hi,

On Sunday the 8th Novemeber 2009 I went on one knee and asked Paula to be mine forever. We now have a date set as the 24th September 2010

Diamond Ring Princess Cut 1.08 Carat set in Platinum

Diamond Ring Princess Cut 1.08 Carat set in Platinum -As modelled by Paula

Ambitions

If anyone says I unambitious, they are wrong.
My aim for the next six months is to get something printed in a magazine called Viz.
The Viz Logo

The Viz Logo