Iain Douglas Stewart

I’m not the same person I was seven years ago

By Iain 11 April 2010Reflections2 Comments

I went back and re-read this post the other day – it was most enlightening. I was so sad back then, I look back and it’s genuinely hard for me to recognise my own writing. I mean, I know it’s just words on a screen, it’s not hand-written, but it’s hard for me to see that it was me.

I had an interview today, part 2

By Iain 9 April 2010ReflectionsNo Comments

Remember this? I didn't get it. Fucksakes. It's all good though. The sun is shining, so I went for a nice long walk in the beautiful weather, picked up a couple of application forms for some more jobs, it cleared my head and my sinuses. And I found a pack of cigarettes in my bag when I thought I had…

Resident Evil 5 Achievements

By Iain 9 April 2010Reflections, Videogames2 Comments

Man, some of the Achievements on this were obscure. Here are my tips for some of them. I had trouble getting "The Works" Achievement. For this, Chris attacks an enemy with a melee attack, then Sheva follows up quickly with a melee attack, then Chris finishes the enemy off with a final melee blow. I found it best to do…

More 7 on 7 fail

By Iain 8 April 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Hehe, I forgot to do this again. That's, what, eight months in a row now? Anyway, it's not even like the Achievement is worth a whole lot of points, it's 0 Gamerscore, I JUST FUCKING WANT IT. I really need to put a note somewhere I can see it to remind myself. I spent most of last night playing the…

Fox news

By Iain 6 April 2010ReflectionsNo Comments

Ah, so funny. Bad puns are awesome. Remember this? More specifically, the post about how I can't get a picture of a fox? Well, I got some. Granted, the fox was injured and not at all itself - out in plain sight in the daylight, hobbling around on three legs with a back end ravaged by mange - I still…

Karen Gillan is a popular search term then

By Iain 5 April 2010Films/TV, Internet, Site RelatedNo Comments

Thanks crazy barefooted guy from this post! You secured me a couple of foot fetish "barefoot" searches. It was also pretty fortuitous that I smoke, as the word "cigarette" secured me some fag fetish clicks. I must also thank the guy or gal who clicked through because of the "lol cat doomsday" search, if only as some kind of proof…

I’m pretty sure we live near some kind of mental institution

By Iain 4 April 2010Films/TV, Music, ReflectionsNo Comments

Earlier this week I saw a young guy, barefoot and dressed in shorts and a vest (it was raining and very windy at the time), skipping along the road singing along to One Hand In My Pocket by Alanis Morissette (thing is - the earbud ends of his earphones were in his ears, as is procedure, but the bit you…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By Iain 1 April 2010Books, ReviewsNo Comments

There are too many cool moments or events in this story to go into full detail with, so I'll only do a few of my favourites. The gang breaking into the Ministry of Magic was brilliant - I loved how it didn't go to plan - like it ever would! I liked how Hermione stuffing Phineas Nigellus' portrait into her…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

By Iain 1 April 2010Books2 Comments

I felt that this book was mostly build up, although it was due to necessity really, to set the scene for the Horcrux hunting in the final book. This and Deathly Hallows felt as if they were two parts of one novel, rather than two episodes that could stand alone by themselves, something all the other books could reasonably do.…

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

By Iain 1 April 2010Books, ReviewsNo Comments

Harry spends most of this book being very angry. Angry at his friends for not writing to him, angry at Dumbledore for not being straight with him, angry with Dolores Umbridge, angry with Professor Snape... Harry was actually quite unlikable for the first part of the book, he came across as too obnoxious - Maybe this had to do with…