Spent the day clearing out the spare bedroom and setting up the projector for an awesome home cinema.gaming setup.
What started out like this

ended up as this

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A couple of weeks ago I volunteered for a research project with Hull Uni's Sport, Health & Exercise Science department. Basically I got hooked up to a bunch of machinery and made to run till I dropped (well, almost).

As part of the experiment protocol, I got a whole bunch of fitness tests done, such as body fat assessment, VO2max and such, and I just got the report back.

( Let's see what it says... )

Summary if you can't be bothered reading all the details

Thinking about how to get the Markie heads into Sheep Snaggers 2...

Could be interesting :D

To celebrate the awesome and historic event of my birth, we're gonna be hitting up Leeds for 4 days of Metal and Mayhem.

Current plans are:

Friday 20th - Evening - Motörhead @ Academy
Saturday 21st - Daytime - Probably going to the Armouries, general wandering about
Saturday 21st - Evening - Skunk Anansie @ Academy
Sunday 22nd - Recovery
Monday 23rd - Evening - SLAYER @ Academy

Anyone in the area welcome to meet up for beers, food and stuff over the weekend. Curry is a distinct possibility :D

Any recommendations for food/pub/other stuff to do would be handy too - I've not been out in Leeds for years now...

Facebook event page, if you're into that kind of thing

Spent the weekend mucking around with Flash - specifically, the rather nifty Flixel game library.

So to test it out I knocked together a fun little game that goes by the name of Arse Monkeys

Needs a little polish in the graphics department, but* it was surprisingly easy to put together. Looks like Flixel has some serious potential for future Beercave releases :D

* hehe - I said "butt"!

I've noticed the frame rate on Gun Bastard has a tendency to plummet when things get a bit splodey, so I should probably start looking at optimising the code a little before I go any further.
Since the explosions are the most obvious source of slowdown, at least some of the problem is likely down to object creation overhead on the various particles I'm chucking about the screen.

In order to minimise the overhead, I thought I should investigate object pooling...

http://www.beercave.co.uk/2009/09/01/playing-pool

Via The Daily WTF

http://www.beercave.co.uk/2009/07/31/mm-too-metal-one-hand


I absolutely fucking *love* Motörhead. So when I found out they were playing on my birthday I had to have tickets.

Lucky for me I've got a goddamn awesome wife - thankyou Vikki! I love you!

Currently contemplating whether or not to stay an extra night and catch another of my favourite bands - Skunk Anansie are back together and playing the same venue on the saturday!

The Pope, it seems, is fucking metal...

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"