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One of my favourite parts of the Jackass movies involved Johnny Knoxville when he dresses up as an old man in disguise.  This Pepsi ad takes a similar concept by dressing NBA Rookie of the Year Kyrie Irving as an older guy and has him sharking some local basketball players. Have a good weekend everyone!

Fifteen minutes.  Fifteen minutes is exactly how long we lasted before walking out on Men In Black 3, which makes it the first ever film I’ve ever walked out on before the credits rolled.  To be honest, it wasn’t even my suggestion.  It was my wife’s.  In this day and age, its pretty easy for me to identify films I ...

Thanks to Mr Peaker for this one.

We had another theme day at work.  A good excuse to dust off the old Batman Halloween costume from a couple of years back.

A look back on one of Nintendo's most popular consoles and the best games in its software library.

Released two years ago and clocking in at 2,182 pieces, the Grand Emporium is my first pick up in their modular building line. It’s an excellent build that took 3 of us about two hours to complete, doing a floor each.  It comes with a detailed interior, a revolving door, interconnected floors with escalators and seven minifigs (five people, two ...

I took our team to an indoor archery range on our Friday offsite. I’ve never tried it before but I found it to be a lot of fun and surprisingly easy to pick up.  It’s a bit like chess.  It’s simple to learn the basic mechanics but its tough to master.  We had a good three hour session where we ...

In the last few years, Jen and I have really gotten to enjoy the annual Eurovision song contest. This kitschy pop music trashathon perfectly captures the best qualities of pop music that I personally liked from the Eighties and Nineties but feel is missing in most contemporary pop. It’s been a week since Eurovision 2012 and after listening to a ...

We’re only a week away from E3 2012, a show that promises to give us a glimpse of the next generation of video game consoles.  Nintendo will play their hand with the Wii U and depending on who you believe, we may or may not see what Sony and Microsoft have in mind for their successors to the 360 and ...

There’s a scene in The Guard where a young Irishman tells Don Cheadle that there’s a good movie to made based on the events that occured in the preceeding 90 minutes.  “There’s a hero at the centre of the story.  Now throw in some action, explosions, a couple of hot girls.  Who wouldn’t want to see that?” It’s a pretty ...