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God-Sodding-Damnit!

October 24th, 2008
By Gazok (Permalink)

My headphones have broken again. That's the third pair in just as many months.

Well, the first pair (£5-£7) didn't break, as such, but they were so badly designed they cut into my ears, the sores from which still haven't receded. (Don't buy Advent, kids!)

The second pair were awesome, though (£11-12). Really nice and comfortable, with better sound quality. I beat them regularly, though, dropping them on the floor from a height, so it's no surprise they broke.

The third and current pair (£14) seemed a little more robust, but I didn't drop them at all, and they still ended up broken in the same way as the second. I was watching some interesting right-wing propaganda, and I noticed that it wasn't working when it started working again for a second. These ones had even better sound quality, but hurted my ears something awful.

The problem is really strange, in that it's only the headphone opposite the wire connection that breaks, but the angle of the wire right at the base of the other headphone affects it, while I would have assumed a break further along the wire. I guess I'm going to have to dike out the wire and see what I can do, but in the mean time I'm ordering a pair of Razer Piranha headphones, as it's my birthday's in 5 days (I've heard some really bad stuff about the Barracuda range, and the ship really sucked in Freelancer, so I'm going with the cheapo option).

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The Naming Award

August 1st, 2008
By Gazok (Permalink)

Today, my friend Jack found an online writing competition. He showed me, and we were all geared up to considering entering, when we found out that it was marked on length, and that if you met a certain length you won, and so did everyone else. That's all very well and good, but as proponents of the Quality Not Quantity theory, this seemed like a pretty sissy criterion. we were outraged.

So we decided to make our own. And so that's what we're going to do. The problem is, we have no idea what to call it. I wanted to call it the Finxi Awards (Finxi being latin for Fiction), but Jack then made the fair point that it sounds like a dog's name. Here's our maybe list after several hours of bickering:

The Finxi Awards
The Antagonist Award
The New Age Writing Award
The Final Draft Award

Suggestions welcome!

Edit: We have now chosen The Finxi Award. I'm sure I'll be updating again with more detail when it's not nearly midnight.

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