paulradcliffe.me archive
Tag: Geeking out
July 11, 2014
Follow Friday: Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
On the links page of this blog, I list a number of webcomics that I follow regularly. Manly Guys Doing Manly Things is one of my favourites, but it doesn’t update very often. Based on the title, you’d imagine it was written/drawn by a hyper macho dude. Surprisingly, it’s authored by a lady, Kelly Turnbull aka Coelasquid. She says thinks that men should be allowed to be manly. And she references all sorts of video games characters from series I love like Dragon Age, Pokemon, Final Fantasy and pokes fun a typical tropes. I shared the link to her comic because of[…continue reading]
May 29, 2014
Throwback Thursday: AER201 Robot
I’ve started seeing some awesome throwback Thursday posts from some Facebook friends, particularly Nicole and Patty. So, I thought I’d join in the party. I found these pictures and video on an old laptop. It was from about 10 years ago when I was still in university. We had a group project to build an autonomous robot. We were barely trained at the time. I liken the project to being thrown in the deep end of a pool and expected walk on water. Our particular robot had to take a bunch of coloured ping ping balls, sort them by colour, then place[…continue reading]
March 26, 2014
Warhammer!
Here’s another definitely non-running post. In a post a long time ago, I mused about a photo showing the proportions of the fictional Adeptus Astartes from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. In a celebration of passing my PMP, I downloaded a new game for my PS3: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. I like that it’s in this universe. The game is a little repetitive, but oh well. It reminded me that I used to be quite interested in the whole Warhammer 40k universe, including painting and playing with the tabletop miniatures. By a long time ago, I mean like 17 years ago![…continue reading]
