Yep, I'm gonna start putting it together on the 20th, and the last day that I'll accept partsd from is 1st December. 12 days until I stop taking in parts. And then it'll probably take me another couple days to shove it all together and pick a song. Not long to go!

So, in the past couple of years, a new headteacher came to my school. He started making changes, tightening up on rules, adding new things and stuff. I thought that it might actually be changing for the better. And then something happened. My best friend was assualted on school property, inside the school building by a known troublemaker, and he was hospitalised with a fractured cheek bone. What does this guy get for hospitalising my friend and commiting a criminal offence? 3 days exclusion. Three, fucking, days.
My best friends mum is now taking the son of a bitch that did that to court. Even that didn't convince them to expel that thug. You wanna know what did eventually convince them to expel him? They threatened to go to the local paper. That made me realise. Everything, absolutely everything he was doing was a facade, it was about image. The uniform, the new buildings, the specialist school status, the core values, they made no difference, absolutely no real change had happened. It was the threat to the image of the school, and not to the safety of the pupils that meant that they finally got rid of that bastard.
The contracts, the bullying support group, the prayers in everyone's planner, the two week timetable, it's all designed to make the school look better, and then they have the fucking cheek to COMPLAIN that too many students are applying! What do they fucking expect!

Now, I really hate the headteacher. He had the fucking cheek to say he didn't like what my best mate's mum was doing about going to the paper. WELL WE DON'T FUCKING LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD'VE LET THAT FUCKING YOB STAY IN THE SCHOOL. You don't like that she would've damaged the school's image? WE DON'T FUCKING LIKE THAT THAT THUG ALMOST GOT AWAY SCOT-FREE WITH ASSAULT UNDER YOUR WATCH! And, headteacher, if you do actually read this at some point, don't fucking complain that I'm out of order, because you fucking know that everything I've said here is true, and don't fucking deny it.
My advise to his mum is to go to the papers with the story anyway. And no, I won't stop talking to my mate and his mum. I have the right to talk to whoever the fuck I want, and no shallow idiot's going to change that.

Oh boy, oh boy, isn't this a little gem. I literally just watched the opening episodes of the latest spin off from the Stargate universe, and my God it's off to a good start. The opening part of the first episode had a very different feel to either SGA or SG1, a very dark feel, like the opening of a horror film. It soon emerced us in the story, introducing characters, and establishing the various roles of the people on board.
One of the things that really struck me was how this show hasn't followed the usual leader, linguist, smart guy, alien, team style that both Atlantis and SG1 went with. We can already see that this is going to be one rollercoaster of a show, and it's looking freaking awesome.
Everything about these first two episodes gives me really high hopes for the rest of the series, and I'm sure they'll more than fill the shoes left by the previous Stargate shows. I can't wait until episode 3, and honestly, I cannot wait.

This TV show is awesome.

This movie can be summed up in the phrase "absolutely f###king amazing". The storyline, set in the year 2010, revolves around a spaceship that has come to a stop over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The inhabitants of the spaceship are brought down to Earth, and settled in what becomes a slum, known as District 9. The semi-documentary, semi-movie reveals the story of Wikus van de Merwe, who was assigned the task of relocating the aliens, known as "prawns", to a new location.
I won't go into any further detail than that over the plotline, but needless to say, it is absolutely fantastic, and carries the film really well.
The film starts off in the form of a documentary, and is very cleverly done, taking interviews, the point of view of an on the ground camera crew, security footage and mixing it with a cinematic view of the film to help push parts of the plot along. The directing in this film is flawless, and the acting is superb, and the whole mix of elements helps drag the audience in, and help them believe what they're watching, and really get to know the characters and feel for them as they fight through the story.
The location is also a really good choice, simply for the fact that it is very unorthodox. Instead of taking place in a vast American city, like New York or Washington, where almost uncountable other movies have already been set, they choose the South African capital, Johannesburg. This helps in the plot, as it's easy to imagine the set of events taking place in a politically questionable African nation, rather than a democratic (although in parts, just as politically questionable) Western nations, where it would be harder for the government and the people to put into place the events that drive the film.
Another great thing about this flick is the weaponary that the geniuses in CGI have armed Wikus and the aliens. Amazing designs, and the stuff they do is, at points, hilarious. Why is it that seeing someone just blow a part after being shot at can tickle the funny bone? (Probably the same thing that lets people laugh at things like "The Final Destination", or the train station scene in "Knowing") But everything just looks so believable, and the kickass consquences of pulling the trigger of one of those babies are absolutely fantastic.
It is so goddamn hard to find anything to critise about this film, and personally, I'm not even going to try. It's all the kickass special affects, robots and explosions of "Transformers", but with an actual, and I must say, very good plot to fit it. Well done to everyone who helped make this film. I think this is probably one of, if not THE, best film of 2009, and one to look out for at the Oscars. There's so many good things about this film, I can't even think of them all right now, and they probably wouldn't fit. GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE!

I'm cautiously optimistic for this project, which is a complete redo of my most recent submission, because I really wasn't happy with the score.

Here's a little fact file of the original Interactive Kitten:
- a choice of 4 backgrounds
- 3 choices of music
- 16 points of interaction
- kitten based on my cat, Toby
- very first stuff was done beginning of the year
- submitted a few weeks ago with the openning score of 2.76

And now for the plans for The IK-V2:
- 4 backgrounds
- 3 backing music options
- 20 points of interaction
- ability to feed cat
- ability to harm cat (and a bonus sort of animation thing to tell you off for doing so.)
- based on my cat, Tommy
- work started 6pm GMT
- target score of 3.60

I would have a picture comparing the original kitten design to the new one, but my computer is slowly crashing, so I'm using the family one instead. But trust me, the new kitten looks good.

I think I can neatly fit everything I do in a day into a few different categories.
Internet, School, and Social Life.
Internet - Mostly Facebook and Newgrounds, although I do spend quite a while on my webcomic, updating it every week, keeping it going, posting on Newgrounds so that people will be directed there through the link in my sig, stuff like that. I'd say that right now, during the summer holidays, this takes up like, 60% of my time, but that goes down a lot during school time, to about 7%.
School - Well, what do I need to say? I'm about to go into Year 11, and that's my last year of compulsory education before Sixth Form. I'm not terribly enthusiastic, from what I understand, it's just Year 10, but only more so. More exams, more coursework, more dull Maths lessons, and apparently my grades are gonna go down the shitter anyway because of a change in the time table that causes a massive dip in grades in the first 18 months that it's used in a given school. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna be there long enough to be coming out of that 18 month dip, so I'm gonna have less A*'s and A's, and more D's and C's. Well shit. Thanks a bunch. Obviously this takes up pretty much no time during the holiday, but goes up to, say, 90% out of holiday. This is extremely frustrating.
Social Life - This probably takes up the least of my time. Maybe 30 - 40% of my time during holidays, and, due to the fact that there's pretty much nothing I want to do after school, or nothing I have time for before it gets too late, and that which is on late, I don't really want to do, this drops to, say 3% during school time. Stuff I do here, includes going round people's houses (which I rarely do), playing Humans versus Zombies (these are few and far between), Flashmobs (see HvZ), going to Laser Zone, and going into cinema/town.

I hate that school rules my life apart from this one month that I have, this month of freedom from a 6 and a half hour long totalitarian dictatorship, and even then, because everyone goes away at some point this month, it's so hard to get people together to do stuff. Someone tell me that life gets better, and someone tell me what it is that other webcomics do that makes them popular.

Well, to say I'm a little disappointed with the score of the Interactive Kitten is a bit of an understatement. It had 2.73 when it left judgment. I was working on that thing for months, trying to get as much into it as I possibly could and, well, I think it failed miserably. I know what I need to add, it's just that some of it would require me to start completely from scratch, and take another few months working it out all over again.
I think for the moment, I'll work on getting my Shortened Shakespeare stuff done, but the Kitten's gonna be on the backburner for a while now, until I'm motivated enough to want to pick it up again. I will try again, that much is true, but I have no idea how long it'll be until I do. There's a couple of other bits I want to do first, and I'm afraid school will get in the way for, minimum, next 3 years, and then possibly university after that, so...

tl;dr - disappointed with Kitten, will try again, but not for a while, new Shortened Shakespeare in the works.

For once, there's been a trilogy that has managed to consistently pull off new and good ideas, good storylines, great graphics, good jokes, and just keeping the bar high throughout the series. Everything works within the "Ice Age" universe all the way through the trilogy, and the introduction of new characters has helped give rise to whole new possibilities of jokes, plot lines, subplots, and doing what few trilogies have done.
I can, off hand name 3 trilogies that have also managed to be great all the way through, the original Star Wars, Back to the Future and the first 3 Indiana Jones films. And now, Ice Age is probably the first animated trilogy to join these greats in being one of few highly successful series' that have managed to be good, and stay good despite multiple movies.
Well done, Blue Sky Studios, these movies are likely the younger generation's "Toy Story", the movie that'll give them that sense of nostalgia when they're older and grown up.
5/5

Ok, basically, I was reading the prologue to "13 Things That Make No Sense" by Michael Brooks, when it got talking about "a dark energy" that was pushing the universe apart. And a thought crossed my mind. What if this "dark energy", wasn't so dark. Perhaps the answer is light itself.
Whenever you talk about light in it's smallest form, you hear about light particles, that wizz across the openness of space as almost incomprehenisble speeds. I remembered a documentary I saw on National Geographic about space, light, and the speed of light, and it described how when a particle of light hit's an atom, it makes the atom vibrate. Now, a single lightbulb will give out billions of tiny light particles every second, and these will pass through billions of atoms in the air, causing all that vibration in the molecules.
So here's my thought. What if, the combined effect of a spectacularly powerful light source, such as one that can only be found in space, say, a galaxy, what if the quadrillions or septillions or googolions of individual light particles travel from one galaxy (lets call it galaxy A) and impacted another galaxy (galaxy B), causing vibrations throughout it that would actually push galaxy B away. And at the same time, this same effect is happening on all of the other galaxys that light from galaxy A is reaching, causing all of them to drift away from A. And at the same time, all those other galaxys are doing the same to the galaxys that their light is reaching, which would cause the whole universe in it's infinte and incomprehensible size to drift apart!
Holy crap, I think I just solved the problem of what dark energy is.

Yes, I have started a webcomic! It's called To Let, and is about 2 students who end up house-sharing with a vampire, a werewolf, a centaur, and a mermaid. So, if you guys want to see it, it's here. Go ahead and take a peek at what's there so far.
I created the whole website in Flash, just to make it easier to manage and update. I'll be adding new comics on Fridays, or how ever close to a Friday I can get. I'll miss the date Friday after the one coming up, because I'm holiday, but I can get it done on the day after that, so great.
Keep checking back! :)