This was a triumph

Hammer time

My New Year’s resolution this year was to accomplish two things: catch my first ever fish and play a full round of golf.  I guess they’re not really traditional resolutions as such.  I just feel that I don’t try enough new things and having a mental checklist helps keep me motivated. Today, I checked off one of those resolutions.  I ...

Time flies.  Has it really been four years since The Orange Box came out?  It’s still crystal clear in my memory when Valve released that fantastic compilation of games (Half Life 2, HL2: Episode One, HL2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2) just how much gamers went nuts over Portal. You being the game playing as a mute woman ...

This was a pleasant surprise.  Nick is a longtime reader of The FAT Website and a guy who I haven’t seen in over ten years.  I first got to know him when he lived in the same neighbourhood as my childhood friends the Priest brothers in Brunei.  I remember him being a skinny kid wearing the basketball tops of some ...

It’s been about a month since I last blogged about the Reds.  I missed their last home game as I was away in Melbourne for the F1 Weekend.  A short summary of whats been going on:  we won every single game and are top of the Super 15 table for the first time in over a decade. It’s been a ...

Red Hot Chilli Peppers – great band or greatest band? Have a great weekend everyone.  Not long to go till Easter break!

A few weeks ago I blogged about Jen getting me a copy of The Complete Far Side.  I just mentioned in passing to her that I was hankering to read some of my old comic book collections that I had when I was a kid and bam, she orders them the next day.  She’s pretty great like that. Not longer ...

It was my sister-in-law Sarah’s 22nd birthday recently.  One of the gifts she received, from her twin brother, was a set of alphabet tiles that spelt out both her name and tuahine, which is Maori for ‘sister’.  A nice and thoughtful gift. It didn’t take very long for us to get into a silly mood and re-arrange the letters. Sarah ...

I don’t quite know how this happened but its April 2011 and I’ve only written a couple of blogs about video games.  I’ve got a huge backlog of stuff I want to write about.  Xbox Kinect.  Xbox Live Arcade games.  Nintendo 3DS.  iPhone Games.  Now is a good a time as any to start getting stuck into it. This week, ...