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The Middle Distance: Smell
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Sunday, 1 March 2009. How often do you use your nose? Whatever your answer, it's not enough. The world is full of smells. Good and bad smells. Smell can tell you something about your environment that you could never see with your eyes. And my favourite part of using my nose is the memories. I read once that smell is the sense that connects easiest with memories. For example:. One of my best friends works for Aromatic Apothecary. And of course nature. Walking between the car and the shop sometime last...
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The Middle Distance: TV and Plugs
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Sunday, 22 February 2009. I first noticed it with Mythbusters. "We didn't only perform these tests. To see what else we got up to, go to your website on.". Like so many others. It's been there for ages. But ever since the internet can handle video, they've been hinting at further content. During season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. The same thing happened, but they hinted that there are further scenes. Time Warp. Are you still getting the full impact of the show if you don't go watch that part online? I thi...
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The Middle Distance: Puzzles
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Sunday, 11 January 2009. When last did you build a jigsaw puzzle? Can you even remember? It's something our parents did. Or not even. Maybe you remember visiting your grandmother's house and there was an uncompleted puzzle on the dining table. But why don't we see puzzles anymore? Because kids play computer games. And consoles, that's why. You even get jigsaw puzzle games. 160;I've said many times that I am a gamer. Then there are secondary skills you learn, like planning:. It also destresses because you...
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The Middle Distance: Encyclopedia?
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Saturday, 14 March 2009. I don't even remember when I first heard of Wikipedia. But in the last year it's become a part of every net-user's daily life. When you wonder about something, you go to Wikipedia. I've even got a shortcut to it on my phone's home page. Because it's reliable. Contrary to a certain spoof video. Funny even though I disagree with it). That's exactly my point. Without Wikipedia, where would we get our information? Literally hours after broadcast. So is Wikipedia the ultimate and only?
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The Middle Distance: Casual To The Core
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Monday, 27 October 2008. Casual To The Core. Casual games have taken over. I think it makes sense. People seldomly sit down behind a computer and say to themselves: "Right, now for a few hours of gaming." Only people that really enjoy games would do that. A casual game allows you to sit down for a quick game. Sometimes you end up spending hours there anyway. But the thought of dedicated a section of your day almost to the activity of inactivity is a daunting concept. . That's World of Goo. Oh there's tho...
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The Middle Distance: Docs...
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Sunday, 8 February 2009. I buy one pair of shoes and wear them until they fall apart. I don't want to waste time deciding which shoes to wear today. Foot goes in, tug on laces, maybe a knot, and off I go into the urban jungle. All Star Hi-tops for a while. Though they are comfortable shoes they don't last very long and get dirty unbelievably quickly. Caterpillar. I bought the 8-up laced design. It had the ankle support I needed without being too complicated to lace up every time. I was told to bu...Won't...
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The Middle Distance: Musicality And Everyday Life
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009. Musicality And Everyday Life. I don't know a single person that doesn't listen to music in some form, whether it's the iPod in your pocket, on the radio or going to clubs. But music has benefits other than providing a backtrack to your daily life. I'm a musician. I live for my music and I've noticed over the last few months that a sense of musicality helps you in an everyday capacity. You learn rhythm, timing, pitch. You even learn to listen. When I was younger, watching TV, I woul...
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The Middle Distance: Vampires...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009. The world was recently swept with Vampire Fever. It probably started with the TV series True Blood. But it really took off through the sudden fame of the movie Twilight. And subsequently the mass consumption of the books. It's based on. The entertainment media has suddenly flooded with variations on the theme. New series such as Vampire Diaries. Also based on books. And a Twilight board game. Is the first that come to mind. But the concept of vampirism. And Queen of the Damned.
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The Middle Distance: Like Chess But Different
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Sunday, 5 October 2008. Like Chess But Different. Is a strategic board game for two players. It differs from chess by only having one type of playing piece. What it shares with chess is an infinite complexity. For me, and many others, it all started with an animé. Is largely responsible for popularizing Go among the youth of Japan since its debut, and in other areas such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. More recently it has gained much popularity in the United States. One of the mos...
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The Middle Distance: Good Old Days
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Sunday, 28 September 2008. It turns out that there are still many people that enjoy a good game of pen-and-paper roleplaying. So I went in search of my old player's manual for Vampire: The Masquerade. Pictured left). Upon finding my old character sheet. The memories and nostalgia came flooding back, of late nights in a small theatre with a group of drama students pretending to be vampires. The epic adventures that played out there were the stuff of legend. But what makes the games by White Wolf. In which...
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