thedeadone.net » Silly http://thedeadone.net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:04:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 My daughter wants to be a Ninja! http://thedeadone.net/blog/my-daughter-wants-to-be-a-ninja/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/my-daughter-wants-to-be-a-ninja/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:12:10 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=1195

(I tried to avoid doing cross-post, but I think this is too cute to not share and it gives me an excuse to put Ninja legitimately in a post title!)

My seven year old daughter Alice announced she wants to be a ninja when she grows up. She’s already formed a secret ninja club (girls only) in her class. And after homework I was press ganged into making ninja stars from tin-foil and cardboard and my wife made braces from black velvet so she could start her ninja training. She plans to train every day.

Of course she is young, she has much to learn and she had many questions, like, how do ninjas train? What do they actually do? What weapons do ninjas use besides ninja stars (toilet roll nun-chucks are planned)? Hmm she is wise. :)

(Someone has already kindly pointed to the Ninja-shirt-technique. This will be tomorrow’s Ninja training!)

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It doesn’t look like Emperor Zerg at all!

I’m always disappointed by the shops in Eurodisney. I’m a geek and love good merchandise but most of the stuff seemed really tacky, great for the kids but not for us adult-kids. This year there seemed to be much more Star Wars stuff. There was even a Star Wars chess set, based on the original trilogy to boot. I nearly bought it, except it was too big and expensive and all the boxes seemed to be a bit mashed. They also had these little mash-ups of Disney and Star Wars characters in a few corners.

And this time round we discovered there is an actual book shop in Disney! But only found it as we were leaving, so didn’t really see in side. Sad smile

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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/i-went-to-eurodisney-and-all-i-got-was-this-defective-toy-story-figure/feed/ 2 If all web-comments were read like this! http://thedeadone.net/blog/if-all-web-comments-were-read-like-this/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/if-all-web-comments-were-read-like-this/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:46:41 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=971

I share a lot of stuff on my twitter feed, but I’ve come back to this video a few times. I figure if all web-comments were read like this, all comments would rock.

Anyway, it’s a video of a flash, which is an animation about a voice-track, which is a reading of a comment, which is a review of this flash game. Smile (Saw this originally on tor.com, but it has since appeared on boingboing.net)



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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/if-all-web-comments-were-read-like-this/feed/ 1 Alan Moore wrote the Bible’s New Testament! http://thedeadone.net/blog/alan-moore-wrote-the-bibles-new-testament/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/alan-moore-wrote-the-bibles-new-testament/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:16:11 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=836

… at least according to Amazon.co.uk.

I get these regular “you liked this books, so you probably like this one” emails. And yes, I’ve bought a number of Alan Moore’s books from Amazon, like Watchmen. So I was quite surprised to see this!

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Alan Moore wrote the New Testament in the Bible!

(The product in the email is real btw and is genuinely listed as being by Alan Moore, the author of Lost Girls. Quite a leap from that to this!)

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I just got this in my “possible spam comment for approval” email for this blog:

HELP! I’m currently being held prisoner by the Russian mafia and being forced to post spam comments on blogs! If you don’t approve this they will kill me. They’re coming back now. Please send help!

I like the little touches to the spam, the email address for the comment is in the format:

russianmobvictimXXXXX@gmail.com

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The bad joke comment-spam keeps rolling in today on one of my blogs:

Here there can not be a mistake?  I have a fresh joke for you)   Why did the bunnies go on strike? They wanted a raise in celery.

You are not right. I am assured. I can defend the position. Write to me in PM.  A joke for you peoples!   What did the worm say to the caterpillar? What did you do to get that fur coat?

It is remarkable, rather amusing information Wanna joke?) Why do Vampire have to brush their teeth? Because they have Bat-Breath.

*groan*

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I suggest you to try to look in google.com, and you will find there all answers. I have a nice joke. Why was Santa’s little helper depressed? Because he had low elf esteem.

Obviously spammers have a bad sense of humour.

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I got this piece of comment-spam today:

Josh: I don’t understand why churches and ‘family groups’ spend millions of dollars a year on abstinence-only instruction when a World of Warcraft account only costs fifteen dollars a month and has a much better record of ensuring virginity.

Gave me a giggle just before I deleted it. :)

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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/mildy-funny-comment-spam/feed/ 0 Extermalade, Extermalade, Extermalade! http://thedeadone.net/blog/extermalade-extermalade-extermalade/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/extermalade-extermalade-extermalade/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:02:55 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=590

“Daddy…” my four year old daughter started to declare in the back of the car on the way home from work, “… in Dr. Zeus the robots say…”. I’m thinking right now, who the hell is Dr. Zeus? She then does the next bit in her best robot-like voice, “‘Extermalade. Extermalade. Extermalade…’“.

Ah, my wonderful daughter! :)

 For those unfamiliar with Dr. Who, this is a loose translation from the mind of a four-year-old to father-geek level…

“In Dr. Who, the Darleks say ‘Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.’”

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]]> http://thedeadone.net/blog/extermalade-extermalade-extermalade/feed/ 0 Alice the Rabbit goes into the Farmer’s House http://thedeadone.net/blog/alice-the-rabbit-goes-into-the-farmers-house/ http://thedeadone.net/blog/alice-the-rabbit-goes-into-the-farmers-house/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:39:05 +0000 Mark Cunningham http://thedeadone.net/?p=569

Instead of the usual bed-time story with Alice, our four year old daughter, I decided to run a “Adventure-Story” (at least that’s how I phrased it to her). At first she wasn’t bothered, but when I told her she could play a “rabbit”, she lit up! 

It’s the first time I’ve tried roleplaying with Alice. She enjoys stories but as long as they came from books (especially with pictures). But to see her react to the story was brilliant! I didn’t use dice, just played by ear and told her a story where the rabbit’s carrots were taken and Alice the Rabbit had to find out where they went. But it was all the little touches she brought to it that made it.

When the “King and Queen” rabbit asked her to go outside of the burrow to see what had happen to the carrots, Alice hopped out of the bed and hopped around her room grabbing anything that might look like a carrot and threw them onto the bed (where the other rabbits were).

When she sneaked into the Farmer’s house and into the kitchen where the Farmer was a sleep, I asked her what she wanted to do next, she whispered to me “I can’t talk Daddy, the Farmer might wake up!”

It was full of those little moments where she brought her own touches to it! I was surprised it went so well. The only thing is, it’s not a replacement for a bedtime story. She was so awake afterwards, I had to read her a normal story as well to get her to calm down! :)

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