So the regular readers may have noticed that I’m back to blogging. Hoorah!

Except, not really. I am half arsing a fair bit of this.

Anyway, I need to clear my head for a bit – I’ll be taking off along the southern coast route and swinging back around inland over the next few days. You won’t hear from me at all for a while until after New Years.

So yeah, a planned laziness for once.

You’re pretty much stuck with video clips nowadays.

At least those have some good entertainment value when taken literally!

Ok ok, that sucked when you were hoping for a nice religious fundy cartoon – I’ll try harder in future.

My friend Sonja was in town recently. You may recall the Frozen Fruit Puppy from about a year and a half ago. That was a drink created for her. Well, she was in town again demanding I create yet more ways to get her drunk… imaginatively.

This normally wouldn’t be an issue, except for the fact I get given a name or a colour to work with, instead of a range of liqueurs or flavours -_-;

Her partner, who is currently a bar manager, faces this same issue.

Ranting aside, I made her something last night that turned out quite decently! (more…)

It should come as no surprise to anyone living in a major urban centre that overcrowding is going to be a massive problem in the future. The very near future if you live in Melbourne. One of the huge issues here is that people in Western countries are simply not willing to give up their “quality of life” (read: massive mansions that are far too large for their actual needs and only serve to live out fantasies put upon most people by 1960s sitcoms, and current Hollywood dramas), and live in places that are actually of a suitable size to their needs. Everyone needs a mansion, but there’s not actually enough land for everyone to have one.

The Cyberpunk genre gives us two solutions to this quandary:

1. Massively unchecked urban sprawl, leading into megacities that span multiple state boundaries, and have impressively large buildings situated in the middle, where all the work is done by an underclass of artificial humanoid life that totally doesn’t resent us like in Appleseed; or
2. Arcology type structures. (more…)

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