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Asher Cormac – pentology (look i made that up ok?! but its sounds about right)
I had read all five of the Cormac series before, but massively interspersed with many other things (life/kids/other sci fi stories (heaven forbid) beer/sport etc) so the flow was in a way broken, although this can really be put down to just waiting for the next book to be published. I had the books upstairs in the loft, so dusted down the box and got them out (they are quite new, its just my loft is VERY dusty).
Book review – Game of thrones book 1 (hold onto your lunch)
I have eventually got round to reading this and to be fair the word EPIC is an apt description throughout this book – its a wide ranging, no-holds bar medieval thrusting beast of a book, descriptive and shocking (this aint no tinsle-town-happy-ending-kind-of-a-book-with-too-many-hyphenated-comments) Its a guts with lots of blood, sex, war, and many other dark things
Book Review
First things, well thing, being a graphic designer i’m a visual sort of chap and therefore wasn’t really turned on by the cover, its looks a bit average to me* – perhaps in this digital world it matters less, but im not sure… That aside this book (lets call it a book shall we?, we all know its an e-book, digital thing, but ultimately still words on page, anyway i digress…)
Lyon, France typographic poster
Just saw this lovely example of typography in the museum in Lyon dedicated to the history of the town. Link to there website Also quite enjoyed their...
Kilobots flash mob of 1,024
Harvard University scientists have devised a swarm of 1,024 mini robots that behave like a natural swarm, well one consisting of only 1,024 and one instructed by a computer... The researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in...
Book cover design service
Listen! im fed up with all the poorly designed book covers around, especially digital!, therefore im going to provide a one-stop-shop that you can get predesigned covers from! (you just provide the title/author details etc) and there you go. Then you have the means to easily promote yourself via a quality designed cover!! read on, read on!!…
Retro book covers
Its just a thing, but as im a graphic designer by trade (reasonable rates folks and quality just contact me etc etc!) and in the process of doing some book covers - so i was looking for some inspiration and just happened to find the image here on a search (click...
The Darwin Elevator Review
Soooo where to begin, well firstly dear reader, if you are looking for a series of books (lets face it those of us whom like our space opera often like there to be more than one book) there are three books already published aswell, in this series and they are all (well the first two as I have not actually got round to book 3 just yet) are a good lively read.
Jan 2014
OK folks back in the saddle a whole raft nay plethora of updates to come... how exciting, stay tuned to this site or twitter for for info and HAPPY NEW YEAR! cb 2014
Surfing the microfoam… (updated)
Having recently just got a Gaggia Classic the importance of milk frothing and the coffee making in general have been thrust upon me with greater urgency - as lets face it - I'm the one drinking the coffee so I want it to be the best, therefore I need to get good at...
Abaddon’s Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse
First up – those naysayers* (is that a word?) is that its all a bit obvious, well listen up, its a rip-roaring sci-fi novel, excitement and page turning abound. OK you couldnt read this stuff all the time (blistering of page turning thumbs would be a problem aswell as lack of sociability) but its darn fun
All things caffine
Well coffee really...and things you may need to know but to start with some facts: 65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics. Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii. In 1675...
Chicken saag cb style
Oh come on we all like curry don't we, especially us Brits! so here is a rather delicious creation that easy and tasty to make. So here we go, simple stuff indeed, but like a lot of curries, the longer you slow cook the better it all becomes.... Ingredients (for one...
Book review: The Phoenix Conspiracy
I like this book, one of the first I read on my iPad, why? well the first Kindle edition is free (link here) and a great way to introduce the story and author to an already clogged Sci-Fi landscape (what with the upsurge in Sci-fi films etc).
Iphone photographer?
Lets face it theres a lot of us now with iphones and we all have the capacity (however good or bad our creativity), to have 1000s of images on our hand-held devices. And with the increase in quality of cameras, whist still small enough to use in mobiles. Also combined...
Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe Extravaganza
Let them eat cake. But make sure its a good fresh one eh? not a crumbly old stale has-been. Anyway the good old Victoria Sponge, named after well yes you got it Queen Victoria as it was her favourite afternoon tibble (aparently). But now in the modern blogosphere, us...
Flat white
Periodically as I’ve nothing better to do, Ill post up some extreme info about coffee and todays blockbuster is, What exactly is a flat white? hold onto your beans here we go… Flat White is prepared by pouring microfoam (steamed milk from the bottom of a pitcher) over...
Ray Harryhausen stop, go, stop, gone
Harryhausen pioneered the “Dynamation” stop-motion model animation process, which changed how fantasy and SF films were produced, no longer reliant on just human interventions, real special effects had arrived and was to provide the main influence for all the CGI we...
Voyager 1 has checked out (well out of the Solar System that is…)
Great Scott! 35 years after its launch, Voyager 1 has apparently left the solar system! although there does now seem to be a great deal of debate about, maybe Vger has got to reception but maybe left something back in his room and not quite actually booked out, and...
Some landscape photography tips
Its a world of digital now and there are a lot of images there so here are some useful tips I have gleamed over the years of being a very amateur landscape photographer 1 Look around, get down, go up, move around, get your bearings Especially with landscape its...
Curiosity and the red planet – day 21
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity drove about 70 feet (about 21 meters) on the mission’s 21st Martian day, or sol (Aug. 30, 2012) and then took images with its Navigation Camera that are combined into this scene, which inclues the fresh tracks. This full-circle view is...
NASA’s Curiosity gets Rockin’
The Mars rover Curiosity has let loose it amazing bag of tricks onto an unsuspecting MARS and has got drilling The 1-ton robot a big step closer to initiating its first full-bore drilling operations. The Curiosity rover hammered the rock using the arm-mounted...
Damson and Apple Jam
Oddly where I live we have three huge Damson trees and often I run out of ideas of what to do with the sour little buggers, but this recipe tames the Damson and is dead easy aswell, so you will need: 1kg Damsons 1.25 kg Cooking Apples 1 kg sugar 100ml water Some...
Chicken and Veg Stir fry yummy!
A quick beauty when really you can t be asked to do anything elaborate or want to use up some left overs Ingredients Serves: 4 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts – chopped up recklessly 100ml oyster sauce 2 tablespoons soy sauce or more if you like a stonger flavour...
