Quad Lasers

Got Head?

John H — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:06:31 +0000

Got Head?, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

It was either him or me your honour - I did it in self-defence.

Metal Gear Solid 4

John H — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:10:49 +0000

Metal Gear Solid 4, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

My pre-order of” MGS4: Guns of the Patriots” arrived today. Looking forward to lots of Ancient Snake goodness.

New Guitar

John H — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:00:38 +0000

After years of Fender-lovin’, I decided to get a Gibson SG:

Give Me a Fucking

John H — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:05:32 +0000

Give Me a Fucking , originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

Came home today to find that the missus had ordered this shirt for me; She knows me so well. I do appreciate the fact that the tag is valid XHTML too.

p.s. If you find this shirt funny, you just might be a ~~redneck~~ geek.

Honey Ginger Yellowfin Tataki

John H — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:36:08 +0000

Honey Ginger Yellowfin Tataki, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

This was my breakfast today. Seared Yellowfin marinated in my own Honey Ginger sauce. I also made Dark Chocolate Mousse and Thai Red Curry today, but by the time I was finished making them, I just wanted to eat the darned things…

My Six Word Memoir Was Published

John H — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:45:51 +0000

Far too long ago to remember, I submitted an entry to SMITH magazine’s Six Word Memoirs. The other day I received a package containing this book. If you happen to come across it in your travels, I urge you to check out page 97….

This….

John H — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:46:55 +0000

This…., originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

…pretty much sums up how I feel about today.

WTF Facebook?

John H — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:49:07 +0000

WTF Facebook?, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

It’s strange, the things that you can add to your Facebook profiles….

Fuc* me?

John H — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:31:21 +0000

Fuc* me?, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

I walked into work this morning to be greeted by this innuendo-ridden invitation printed on the side of a box of Duxbury oysters. One can only wonder what the good folks at Island Creek Oysters get up to on their days off….

Hero By Night TPB

John H — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:47:06 +0000

Hero By Night TPB, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

After being pre-ordered in September, my hardcover copy of DJ Coffman’s Hero By Night has finally arrived!

Britpop? Seriously?

John H — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:57:26 +0000

Lately, I’ve been enjoying re-listening to the musical stylings of such lauded 1990’s British acts as David Devant & His Spirit Wife, Kenickie, Echobelly, The Charlatans, Supergrass, Catatonia, Mansun, and even Oasis. Right now, I find myself wishing that I had in my hand my now ancient cassette copy of Mansun’s May ‘97 set supporting the Manic Street Preachers at the Nynex Arena in Manchester. That gig (along with stellar support by Embrace and Audioweb, sniff), was one of the best days of my life.

I miss being 16 years old. Music was so much better then, or so it seems….

Time Machine

John H — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:09:53 +0000

Time Machine, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

I remember the days of backing up my old (and at the time, massively huge) 420MB Amiga hard drive onto hundreds of numbered floppy disks… By comparison, Time Machine is a dream come true.

Fresh Organic LOLcat

John H — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:44:15 +0000

mikelolz.jpg, originally uploaded by lauralatham.

I never thought I would be the proud owner of a LOLcat, but lo and behold…

Spaced - Coming To Fox?!?!

John H — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:57:52 +0000

American version of Spaced to be developed - no, no, no, no, no, no, no, a thousand times no!! It won’t be like The Office! It will suck balls! Everyone involved in creating this abomination needs to be flayed alive!

New Toy

John H — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:42:49 +0000

We just ordered a new MacBook to use when out and about, or if we just don’t feel like sitting in our office all day long. We’re gonna network it with our iMacs, and probably with our old PCs too, for shits and giggles.

Next purchase is gonna have to be some backup drives to use with Time Machine.

Leopard

John H — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:27:09 +0000

We just pre-ordered the family pack of Leopard (that’s “Mac OS X version 10.5″ to non Mac geeks out there) from Amazon, which seems to have the best deal on it at the moment. Now all that we need is three more Macs to get the best value-for-money from that five-user license…..

Chopin Vodka

John H — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:39:42 +0000

Chopin Vodka 3, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

Chopin is a quadruple-distilled luxury potato vodka, and is gluten-free to boot. So excited were we about finding this stuff that we both crowded around it with cameras like booze-fixated paparazzi.

Daft Hands

John H — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:21:53 +0000

Daft Punk are one of the best things about the world today, and so is this video:

Current Setup,October 2007

John H — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:05:43 +0000

john’s desk, originally uploaded by lauralatham.

I’ve finally condensed it down to just my iMac, and tried to keep the desk area fairly minimal and simple - though there is still room on the top shelf for assorted cluttery bits ‘n’ bobs.

Computer Setup, August 2007

John H — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:54:32 +0000

Current Setup, August 2007, originally uploaded by johnheppolette.

A shot of my dual system setup, on the left is my old PC, being used for downloading and DVD production; on the right is my 20″ iMac, being groomed as my new everyday box.

SQL Jokes are Oddly Satisfying

John H — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:15:33 +0000

There’s no humour like SQL-related humour.

Prodigal

John H — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:41:46 +0000

My site, my pride and joy, my life collected in digital form, is back online after a few months absence. My former hosting company lost all of my data for the second time in a year, so I decided to switch this site to our Dreamhost server.

Then I forgot all about it. The daily machinations of life got in the way of fiddling with my website.

Now however, it’s back. It’s not perfect, it still needs work in places, and I don’t like using designs that haven’t been created from scratch by myself, but constraints upon my time dictate that such frivolities will have to wait.

Such is life.

Apple’s Safari Available For Windows

John H — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:40:44 +0000

Apple has made available a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows systems. ‘Bout damn time.

Monoculture

John H — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:41:09 +0000

This short video, a typography-in-motion rendition of one of Spider Jerusalem’s many rants, is the kind of thing that YouTube should be used for.

Magic Censored Numbers

John H — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:55:38 +0000

This ThinkGeek shirt may well be the most unabashedly geeky shit I’ve seen in a while (the shirt refers to the ongoing AACS encryption key lawsuit frenzy).