Right now I’m loving/hating…
Loving the B3TA Star Trek image challenge. These are the ones that have made me laugh my ass off - USB Data, Cyberspace the final frontier, Star Trek the Blome Generation and 2 Girls 1 Cup. Hating that the site’s questionable content (the “occasional” badly drawn cock) means that I can’t access it from work.
Loving the work of Maria Schneider (staff writer at the Onion), her web-comic strips over at Pathetic Geek Stories are inspired by user submitted geeky childhood/teen confessionals that she illustrates, quite brilliantly. Setting up a dialogue with the individuals who submit their stories enables her to bring extra realism to each comic, thus making them hard not to identify with. Hating that I’m terrified to submit my own, as I do have some terribly embarrassing (thus humorous!) stories locked deep inside.
Loving Play.com, especially their fast delivery. Admittedly this site could use some work, especially in regards to the structure of it’s categorisation system, I actually use Amazon to browse but Play to purchase. The reason for this is because Play offer such good value for money and complete transparency, meaning that you known exactly how much you’re going to pay for an item before you’ve even added it to your shopping basket (as postage is included in each item price, rather than added on at the end). Being able to view the site in Euro is also a huge benefit, I hate trying to shop online and converting currency as I go along, it’s too messy. Hating Playtrade, half of the items I have tried to purchase from these “Playtraders” have turned out as being out of stock because they don’t update their inventories often enough.
Loving that the IFI is finally showing Grindhouse - the Planet Terror and Death Proof double-feature, including all the fake and fantastic movie trailers in the middle. Hating that it’s a Saturday and Sunday matinée showing only. Walking out into the light of day after these will not be pleasant.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Loved the Pathetic Geek Stories - looking forward to seeing yours up there!!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
What David said!
Also, Rick O’Shea’s picked up on I Love Lamp. You’re credited for your detective work :)
March 29th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Ohh, thank you Catherine! :)
April 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Only loving Play recently since they have finally updated their Stg exchange rate so the prices should be a bit lower:-) I always check these guys as well before ordering: Blahdvd, Sendit, Bangcd and Cdwow. Sometimes a huge difference in prices! Bangcd delivery fastest by far but don’t always have some of the smaller artists. Ohh would so love to see Grindhouse…and wish I had that machine gun leg to take out a row of seats so I could sit properly in the IFI;-)
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hmmm. Star Trek eh?
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Just because I called you a nerd, doesn’t mean I’m not one too! :)
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Real nerds don’t take 10 and a half hours to comment back :D
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Touche!
A real nerd would have internet access 24/7. I’m so ashamed!