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[16:19] Halo Audio Outtakes
My sister sent me one of the audio outakes from the Aussie marine in Halo (the XBox game), whose name I've just learned was Private Chips Dubbo! It's a Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter rip-off and I found it most amusing. There are more at the Bungie Audio Outakes page if you're interested. On the subject of audio outakes from games, a few years ago now my friend Donovan "Blogs suck like nothing else has sucked before" Ryan also pointed me at the outakes from the Duke Nukem 3D Outtakes. I just listened to them all again and they're still funny - possibly because I remember them from the game but if you played Duke then you might want to go check them out.
UPDATE:Oh my god, I can't stop, I started this post nearly an hour ago. I got hooked on reminiscing and started to track down the swear track from the 1999 hit "Kingpin: Life Of Crime". Not only did I find what I was looking for, I found that Kingpin is alive and well today and is still being actively played on the net! I also found the Kingpin vs Half-Life WAV that someone put together - hehe.
OK, I hear Big Ben tolling midnight - bedtime methinks!
[07:55] Guy Fawkes Night
Last night was Guy Fawkes night and was the cue for everyone in London who hadn't been letting fireworks off every night for the last month to do so. We went out to my original London base (my friend Sams' house in Stockwell) for dinner and watching of fireworks from the comfort of the sofa. The apartment is on the 7th floor so we had a pretty good view of pretty much 180 degrees of the south-west of London from the lounge room and about 45 degrees of the north east from the kitchen. It was all very pretty, when an entire city the size of London decides to start letting of fireworks simultaneously for four or five hours you're in for a fairly spectacular show. The other advantage of watching from an apartment is that you are at eye level for the ones being set off at the bottom of the building. I was watching from the kitchen when one shot up and exploded right in front of me - I was pretty excited as I've never had the opportunity to examine an exploding firework at such close range before (the magic of double-glazing).
As a side note, I find it more than a little amusing that in this current climate of fear and "Terror Alerts" that the entire country is celebrating an event that, were it to occur today, would be decried as a most heinous terrorist attack!