October 2011
1 post
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SpaceChem crash on start-up
I recently purchased the “Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle”, in order to play the wonderful SpaceChem. Unfortunately it proved unnecessarily difficult to get to run on my Windows 7 laptop, because of — well, basically because of Toshiba and Intel. It was sufficiently annoying to fix that I felt the steps I took to remedy the problem may be of interest to other people in a similar...
February 2011
2 posts
Kevin's Clumsy Touch
Kevin’s Clumsy Touch
‘Do not smile when you lie,’ Mrs L. ineffectually begged her daughter, 16 the day before. Linda smiled, feeling cool in her cotton print, running her red nails down its factory freshness, aching for Kevin’s clumsy touch and a glass of lager and lime in her hand; the juke box on its rubberised supports.
Ivor Cutler.
January 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
A Problem of Keeping Tea in a Thermos Flask
I thought tea in a Thermos flask should be the easiest thing in the world to make, but as it turns out, the operation is fraught with difficulties. Or, perhaps more accurately, fraught with only one difficulty: but a gravely serious one.
I speak only of Stinky Tea.
This has now happened to me on a couple of occasions. I would be setting off on a long train journey from Edinburgh to my...
September 2010
2 posts
3 tags
Puzzles by grim
After my last post, I found myself bitten by a puzzle-making bug, and knocked out a number of mazes and word puzzles and the like. No doubt I will tire of the whole thing, and sooner rather than later, but while it lasts I thought I’d share. I’ll post them every weekday at my new puzzle blog, so why not go there and see?
3 tags
No-straight-ahead maze
(This post was the inspiration for my puzzle blog, where it has been reposted.)
I made a maze. Enter and exit at the arrows. So that it’s not too easy, there’s a snag: when you come to a diamond junction, you must make a 90 degree turn, left or right. Going straight across (or turning back) is not allowed!
Full-size version (new window.)
How many diamonds did you pass through?
May 2010
1 post
If you don't like it, don't read it
You will see the sentiment expressed on any Internet message board you care to frequent. The pattern is this: some deadbeat hack scribes an ill-advised “opinion” piece of more-than-usually-hateful rhetoric. Noble readers of taste and distinction post their thoughtful, intelligent, well-observed and often grammatical responses. This criticism is, in its turn, besmirched, slandered, and...
April 2010
1 post
“It was good to read them all though. It made you realize that thoughts and words could be fascinating, if finally useless.”
Charles Bukowski, Ham On Rye
March 2010
4 posts
Films with two women characters who talk to each other about something other than men? It’s less likely than you think: http://bit.ly/9rl8no
bookmarked: A playlist based on ‘Irk The Purists’ by Half Man Half Biscuit - tracks as played on BBC 6 Music. http://bit.ly/dm2tSf
bookmarked: How to generate random numbers according to a standard normal distribution. http://bit.ly/booag5
Link: Trouble in the message centre. http://bit.ly/9nKeqt
February 2010
1 post
http://home.iamgrim.com/qxw - a Windows build of Qxw; a free crossword construction tool.
November 2009
1 post
The Shadow In The Cathedral - Released
Textfyre’s second game, The Shadow In The Cathedral, has been released! Go here to buy a copy, or check out Emily Short’s great review over on ifdb.
October 2009
1 post
“Rosalind was calling me; the real Rosalind, the one who dwelt inside, and showed herself too seldom. The other, the practical, capable one, was her own convincing creation, not herself. I had seen her begin to build it when she was a sensitive, fearful, yet determined child. She became aware by instinct, perhaps sooner than the rest of us, that she was in a hostile world, and deliberately...
August 2009
2 posts
Edinburgh Shows
Second day of the Edinburgh Festival yesterday, and me and my lovely set off to sample the afternoon’s delights while spending as near to nothing as possible. This is easier than you might think with the plethora of shows that are part of institutions such as the Free Festival and Free Fringe. Armed with only our Fringe programme, our disregard for organisation, our poverty, and our...
Enjoying beautiful sunshine on the first day of the Edinburgh Festival!
June 2009
5 posts
Keeping an eye on @Textfyre !
Considering appliying to http://newedinburghorchestra.org.uk/
I welcome visitors to http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nuneaton
May 2009
10 posts
Truth in advertising
http://schyouknowwho.com/?p=114
I love that my best programming reference is currently Chambers Dictionary and Thesaurus.
KnitML - A mark-up language for knitting patterns. →
I have to wonder whether knitting is Turing-complete.
www.iamgrim.com (DNS is still a bit jumpy)
JAMBOREE At a girl guide jamboree it was possible with sensitive equipment to record the sound of acne developing. Played to boy scouts they got excited when told what it was. Many started to masturbate, but were given wholesome advice by uneasy scoutmasters. A VARNISHED COATHOOK A varnished coathook, embedded on a closet wall, drew my eye. It was warm, and upside down in the close summer air. On...
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