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The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Not Will Ferrell Trivia
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 21/09/2008 10:08:53Another reason I like Will Ferrell:
Will Ferrell Answers Your Internet Questions
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Funny, Web
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Timmy didn't think about the Mini-Feed
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 27/08/2008 21:01:43Actual screenshot of one of my Facebook friend's Mini-Feed (I've changed the names to "Timmy" to protect the horny):
Either my 15-year-old self borrowed Timmy's PC when he wasn't looking - or Timmy was bored a few nights ago and went trawling for Facebook funbags.
I must say, Fan de Big Tits does sound like a fun group.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Thongs and Superglue
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 06/08/2008 22:13:16The title says it all - I received the following image in an email forward:
People falling down are funny. Especially when they are holding a drink.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
The Deep Voiced Knight
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 04/08/2008 22:56:05I saw The Dark Knight on the weekend and enjoyed it muchly. It goes without saying that Heath Ledger's contribution was incredible. One small aspect of his performance that I didn't expect when going in was his portrayal of the Joker's voice - it was a pleasant surprise. Christian Bale's take on Batman's "man voice" however - was very distracting.
Looks like I'm not the only one to think this - nor the most eloquent. One of the blogs I read hosted a mock interview with the caped crusader recently - which sums up my feelings quite well.
Indeed.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Movies
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Jonathan Roy charged with assault
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 03/08/2008 11:19:37As mention in an earlier post, Jonathan Roy - son of hall-of-fame goaltender Patrick Roy - basically assaulted Bobby Nadeau in a very one-sided hockey fight.
Looks like someone over there's doing something right - as Jonathan's just been charged with assault.
I'd be surprised if he's faced with jail time, but it's good to the authorities are making a stand on this one. Incidents like this give hockey an bad name - which it doesn't always deserve.
# Posted in the Hockey section
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Superman x 4
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 28/07/2008 22:26:05I was browsing through my iPod's song library looking for Sweet Child o' Mine, as I've been playing my Guitar Hero games a lot recently.
When my scrolling arrived near the Sw section I noticed that a song called Superman was shown four times. I thought it might be a bug, until I played each of them - and they were all different songs:
- Superman by Eminem
- Superman (It's Not Easy) by Five for Fighting (a very cool stage name)
- Superman by Goldfinger (I used to love this song when playing the original Tony Hawk game)
- Superman by Stereophonics
I wonder what the most popular song title is. Purple Monkey Dishwasher?
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Music
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
People from Brisbane like reading about sex
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 26/07/2008 14:49:39(news at 11)
I scan the news headlines each day at The Age's website. After doing a quick scan of the headlines from the homepage, I've recently started scrolling to the bottom of the page each day to check the "Readers' most viewed" links. Each day the top 5 viewed news stories are linked, from 4 different newspapers (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, WA today and the Brisbane Times).
Since doing this, I've noticed something peculiar about the top 1 or 2 articles for the Brisbane Times' readership. I've taken a screen shot of 5 days in a row - and only left in articles from the Melbourne and Brisbane based newspapers. See if you can spot the pattern:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Admittedly, the week I chose may have been rigged - as Big Brother is filmed at Dreamworld (Queensland) - and large-breasted housemates Bianca and Brigitte were evicted in that week. But that doesn't explain their two-day fascination with corpse-sex.
I did read the article about sex being used as a punishment for shoplifting - but it turns out the only people being punished were females. Guess I'll keep stealing my copies of Zoo Weekly elsewhere.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
Dimitri the (crazy and egotistical) lover
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 14/07/2008 19:12:28I was listening to a podcast of an ex-Melbourne radio show - The Shebang - when they played an audio clip of "Dimitri" leaving a few phone messages for a girl named Olga. Marty and Fifi concluded that Dimitri was the most egotistical man on the planet - and when you listen to the clip it's hard to disagree. I've linked to a YouTube video of it - and the whole transcript is below. The transcript is an indication of the crazy going on - but it's no substitute for the audio.
Dimitri the Lover
It gets much better when apparently Olga doesn't call Dimitri back for three days:
Wow. Just wow!
After a little research into this Lothario revealed a wealth of information.
Here's his website where he was providing advice and workshops in the art of seduction. But if you are in the Toronto area, don't get your hopes too high. He's taking time off over the Summer for a few documentary projects - of which he is the star of course. And you must see the genuine products he has on offer. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone wearing these down the street yet.
Then I found a few sites talking about his checkered past (such as changing his name after having his medical license suspended due to sexual impropriety - classy).
One thing's for sure. He certainly is a complete catch!
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Monday, June 30, 2008
The Simpsons Game
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 30/06/2008 18:57:57Last Exit to Springfield
There have been 21 other games in the long list of Simpsons-based video games, and it's fair to say that very few of them have been worth playing. The Simpsons Hit & Run was pretty good and Bart vs. The Space Mutants kept me entertained as a kid - but most of the games have run the gamut from totally shit to an occasionally enjoyable distraction.
It is with this in mind that when the last Simpson game was announced - with the original title of The Simpsons Game - I wasn't expecting much.
There's a different cover design for each version of the game
The Simpsons Game features an original storyline - it was initially assumed this game might be a movie tie-in with the recently released Simpsons Movie - in which Bart discovers that the family is part of a video game. You can control Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart and each member of the family has different skills and abilities. The game is broken up into 16 episodes - each with a different setting built around the two characters you will play as.
Developed by EA, poster boy for all that is wrong in the video game industry, this was a very tough game to keep playing. Deaths are far too frequent due to clunky gameplay and the camera seemingly intent on sabotage. If this game was on any other subject, I probably would have stopped playing it after a few hours. But this is where the story kicks in.
The game was written by three Simpsons writers and all in-game dialogue is delivered by the actual Simpsons actors. The story is very funny, and reminiscent of the golden age of Simpsons episodes (for me anyway). The town of Springfield is also pretty faithfully represented in digital form, including internal designs with the comic book store, police station, Kwik-E-Mart, Moe's Tavern and more.
Although there isn't much you can do there, running around the inside of places like the church is a nice touch
The funny, Simpsons-style story alone would make for a good game even considering the poor game play issues, but the most pleasantly surprising aspect of the game for me was the video game references. The game makes fun of past and current video games as well as the whole games industry including EA themselves. There's also many brief aspects of the game play included as homage to famous games in history, such as space invaders, all rendered in the regular in-game engine with a different camera angle (generally top-down).
Mmmm, chocolate
There's no online component to the game, and the achievements are uninspired. Apart from the "finish the game" type achievements, most of the points are handed out for collecting the various "collectibles" throughout the game. That being said, The Simpsons Game does give up one of the most amusing achievements I've "achieved" on the ol' 360. I won't give it away, but you'd see what I was talking about if you ever decided to give this game a go.
3.5 out of 5
# Posted in the Gaming section and tagged as: Xbox 360
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Friday, May 30, 2008
What bow and arrow?
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 30/05/2008 18:54:55This picture popped up in my inbox with the subject "What kind of bow is this?"
The answer given was "Who gives a shit" - and I must say it's a fair response. Prepare for an increase in archery crowds.
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