England Day 4
by capricorn30 on Aug.10, 2009, under Blog
Hey all, had yet another fantastically warm, sunny day in Tea-and-Scones Land which was great for me if not so nice for the boyfriend. I hadn’t quite appreciated the sense of freedom one has with a car, so we took the Street KA down to Elvaston Castle for a couple of hours to soak up loads of Vitamin D and poddle round the woods/gardens/lakeside.
It was also my friend Caroline’s 18th birthday so we (mainly I, actually) got all dressed up and headed down to Melbourne for lots of lovely stuff to eat and a bit of banter. It was all v nice and clean so I think we were all rather apprehensive about spilling drinks on the carpet. Despite that there was excellent service from Caroline’s two younger brothers which was v surprising given what we’d all heard about them!
Stan told me I should mention the sweet champagne about now, which was ‘amazing’ in most people’s opinions. Personally I thought it tasted like crap, but then champagne isn’t to my taste. Probably because it isn’t electric blue and an alcopop.
We also saw a bit of my friend Ashley who got the tattoo last Thursday. It’s looking a bit icky at the moment, but as soon as it scabs properly and falls off then it should be a beautiful, inky black. Can’t wait and it isn’t even etched onto my skin.
Talk soon, love.
K x
- View of the Castle from across the lake
- Milton, Abbie, George and Becky
England Day 2+3
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Aug.09, 2009, under Blog
So another lovely couple of days in England! Weather has been absolutely kick-ass thus far.
So on Friday we spend most of the day just hanging about Aston…At least I think we did… – Got given the keys to a lovely blue Street Ka on which I promptly dropped the top and took for a spin about the local roads just to get used to it. Beautiful car for country roads – seems to handle pretty well although definitely strange compared to my 106.
Friday night we were partay-ing although I seemed to fade out really really fast which was annoying. Not only that but I seemed to take an allergic reaction to something that turned me into a wheezing plague for all of Saturday. After a relaxing 2 hour walk around the beautiful canal-ways of Derbyshire I pretty much collapsed on the couch for a few hours. Seemed to help my chest a fair bit as well.
The evening was spent (boring-ly you may think) watching X-Files Season 1. Only got through about 4 episodes (3 hours worth…) but its so awesome its totally worth it. Kinda cheating as I only have one photo and its not even from the party…however it is rather cool none the less!
England Day 1
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Aug.07, 2009, under Blog
So it was refreshing to log on this morning and have 5 comments to moderate. Granted they were all spam but hey, at least we are getting traffic!
So I am currently in England stay with my girlfriend for the next 2 weeks. I have a convertible to drive and its not raining, so why I am inside is a question I can’t really answer. Granted, however, we don’t really have anywhere to go but I do want to take the car for a cruise just so I can get used to the handling.
Also she hasn’t complained about my beard, which can only be a good thing.
So I hope to have a picture up each day of whatever we accomplish, though I didn’t bring my camera (because I am a tard) so I am forced to use the (relatively good) camera on my PDA.
Today’s picture is taken from yesterday’s activities which involved Kendal’s friend getting a tattoo. Hope you like it!
P.S. In case any of you want a fantastically made tattoo, all hand drawn and designed on the day, check out Tradition 180 in the Guild Hall in Derby. Not only are all the staff fantastic, the main tattooist was cool AND was wearing a Fez!!
Pre-Term Cleaning
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jul.29, 2009, under Blog
So I grabbed my trusty MacBook Pro and gave it a thorough cleaning out…even though Uni doesn’t start for two month, I like to do this every once in a while.
It basically consists of all the crap (a LOT of it congregates) being backed up onto My 3TB RAID 5 NAS and then the Mac being wiped. Then I start from scratch with the latest leopard and install only the basics.
Normally though I let all the install files mount up, but this time I am trying a slight different approach of installing everything from the NAS that I need and then anything else I do install, I either delete the install image or alternatively back it up onto the NAS if I think its important enough.
So in other fun news I picked my 3 drunk sisters (well one is like a surrogate sister – my sisters best friend) from town tonight. One of them ran away, one of them took ages to find and the other was just drunker than I had ever seen her.
Both the Fiona’s (That’s my sister and her best friend) threw up a lot. One in front of the City Hall and the other in my driveway. Thankfully both of them missed my car =:D
So it seems fun was had by all. Jonny and I played Magic the Gathering on XBLA for most of today so s’all good.
Ooo, I have to go into hospital for a few days in August to get a bunch of teeth ripped out and get braces (braces at 21, my God…)but looks like they are putting me under general anesthesia for it which is good and bad. Last few times I was under general (sleep) I had the most horrible recoveries. In fairness it was far far far more serious that getting some teeth out, so maybe this will be ok.
Thats about it from me so take care and congrats if you read this far…
P.S. Fiona (non-sister) stole my bed because it was where she landed…so I’m in the spare room for the night.
The Sky is Falling…
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jul.27, 2009, under Blog
Or at least, it should be under the weight of all the rain we have had here recently. I was out on Thursday and it was just torrential.
So its been a while since I have written anything and its simply becuase I have had so much to do! I though summer would be easy but it seems I’m getting all the work to do… suppose thats what I get for not having a job. Hopefully that will change soon becuase I’ve applied for a few jobs.
In other news, if I ever get any time I might try and work on some new content for the site but honestly I’m not sure if I will have the time once I got back to uni. Part of me wants to relaunch the forums but I don’t really see a point yet.
BUT…
SUPER HAPPY FUN NEWS!
Super-zero (thats us 
) may be getting a co-op webcomic! That’s right both Jonny Shields and Greg Lee have expressed an interest in hosting a webcomic here! So we shall see how that goes!
Other than that I found a moth graveyard behind the fans of my computer…I hope WaterCooling UK hurry up and get my case panel back to me!!
Well thats about it for this time. Going to try and get 3 updates a week at least in to keep the site content fresh!
Oooo before I got I caught the Nothern Irish premiere (thats to CityBeat for giving us free tickets) of G-Force. Honestly, it was very much aimed at kids. Movies like Ice Age and Shrek normally include innuendo and jokes that adults can find funny, that won’t corrupt small children. This movie was a very young humour, but some great 3D effects and a relateively enjoyable storyline. So might be worth a watch if there is nothing else on!
Off to the Harry Potter Premiere
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jul.15, 2009, under Blog
Well, off to the Northern Irish premiere anyway. I have given into the masses and dressed up for the occasion. With the Help of my two best friends http://babies-are-crunchy.deviantart.com and http://jonnyshields.deviantart.com I put together this killer Death Eater costume.
Greg cast my face and Jonny painted the mask and this is the finished result. The want is made from mod-rocked bamboo. Its a bit old school Harry Potter but its not bad in my opionion
No Wireless!
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jul.11, 2009, under Blog
GAH! So I have been without wireless for 4 days now and its really really rather annoying.
However this PC has Internet although I’m rarely at it so this is just a quick filler so that you know I’m not dead and that I willbe back…hopefully on Monday if my router arrives.
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers XBLA Game.
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jul.02, 2009, under Games, News
So Wizards of the coast have released a 3D Magic: The Gathering Game. I checked out (briefly) the Duels of the Planeswalkers demo on XBL this evening and was actually rather impressed. Its basically a 3D version of the actual Magic card game. The advantage is obviously you don’t have to go out and buy a set deck and it also look like it has a Multiplayer built in so you can play again a friend.
For those of you not familiar with Magic: The Gathering, its a trading card game in which you play the role of a planeswalker – a very powerful Mage capable of moving though the various dimensions of the Multiverse (Magical Universe). There are 5 main colours of Magic and the trading card games allow you to either specialise or diversify (I’m not sure about the 360 game yet though).
It does have a full campaign mode and it does look rather good. There is a very intense tutorial session as well which quickly but simply runs through the basics of the game.
So what’s in it for Magic veterans? Well, for someone like me who has been playing Magic for a while but is still unfamiliar with the more intricate rules of the games, there is a lot to learn. There is also some excellent artwork and some great cards.
Duels of the Planeswalkers costs 800 of those elusive XBox live points, and is available for download now!
StarCraft II
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jun.29, 2009, under Games, News
So when we first started StarCraft II had just been announced. Now, however, the game is heading into public BETA testing. These two part of an interview with one of the games designers show off the direction the game is heading in along with some sweeet shots of new Zerg units…
The First Proper Post
by PyrO_PrOfessOr on Jun.29, 2009, under Blog, Site Updates
´Yes, lots of capital letters to show off how important this really is! Part of me was even considering deleting the test posts but they do a good job of padding out the overall site.
Been tweaking the CSS a little bit and was having a problem with some of the PNG images on the site, so if you see anything that doesn’t look like it should be there (ie left hand corners) please let me know.
I’m debating whether to open the site to registrations…Like I can see the point in having registered users when it comes to comments and stuff but I also know a lot of people just cannot be bothered at all. The upshot of this is I might get people who want to blog as well…meaning we might have more updates and more traffic…
Anyway – Down to the Meat and Potatoes of it. We have been away for a while – there was some debate about way the site was going to go. At the end of it we decided that we really didn’t have time to try and maintain a full games, movies and tech site with out student lifestyles becoming increasingly busy (with actual work!!) so were gonna stick with the blog type layout for a while. No doubt there will still be plenty of games, movies, science and tech news mixed in with some comic books and whatever else we find interesting.
So enjoy the new Super-Zero website and keep a close eye because I have a feeling there might be some awesome changes on the way soon 
I leave you with something I am rather excited about…
-=PyrO=-
