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General Waffle
Succour for Packaging
Call me anal ("ANAL!"), but one thing that really bugs me is lazy packaging design...
Take for example, DVD's. They may go to town on fancy cardboard sleeves or flashing lights on the outside, but open the box, and more often than not you get something like this...
Example (1)
Ver' lazy indeed. LAZY LAZY LAZY.
Surely they can do better than that....
Example (2)
Not bad, not bad, at least there's a picture on this... but wait a minute - that's just the front of the box duplicated onto the disc. LAZY.
Example (3)
OK, that's a little better - at least some effort has been put into this one, it's a key scene from the film, which will mean nothing to you if you haven't seen it. Pretty brave there, but you've still got the great big film logo and 'above the title' star name, though.
What if we took it to the next level, and made the DVD's themselves part of the packaging... you know, put a picture from the film on the inside of the box, and also across the DVD's themselves?
Example (4)
Nice! (Not to mention this was my bargain of the year for £2.84 from Tesco)
But that's not the TRUE pinnacle of DVD disc design.
What about taking a key scene from the film, that happens to involve a round object, actually design the DVD to LOOK like that round object, and to be so confident in your design that you don't even get the film's name ruining your perfect design...
Example (5)
Now THAT's the way to do it... I'll name that film in one...
(OK OK, it doesn't say 'Kobayashi' on the base of the cup, but you can't have everything)
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Somebody help me...
In twenty minutes I'm leaving the house, with the kids in tow.
The joy that is 'School Holiday' means that is falls upon me to entertain the two of them. Not only that, but I have promised to take them wherever they want to go today.
Just the very thought of what I am about to do chills me to the bone.
Yes, I am taking my kids to see... Disney's "The Wild".
*shudder*
Still... at least I have a few episodes of Stargate SG1 on my iPod to pass the time.
Yesterday, we travelled a hundred miles to take them here*:-
and it ended like this**:-
Wish me luck.
* The Deep in Hull
** OK, this photo was taken after he fell over, not as a result of the day out, but why let the facts ruin a good blog post?
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Oh knickers.
Work's internet filter has finally cottoned on to 20Six...
SO I guess that means no more 9-5 blogging pour moi.
 "Arse"
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Three...
Just heard the news from E3... PS3 launches in the UK on 17 November, with a choice of 20Gb or 60Gb hard drive, for 499 and 599 Euros, respectively.
Er... That works out at £340 and £410... Crumbs...
Compared to £250 for the Xbox360, and a predicted £150 for the Nintendo Wii... That's a HUGE wad of cash, but I suppose you are getting a fancy Blu-Ray disc player as well...
*starts saving*
Still, at least they've done away with that odd-looking boomerang controller...
They've basically taken the existing one and made it wireless (like the Xbox360)...
Changed the triggers to be analogue (like the Xbox360)...
And added motion sensors... (like the Nintendo Wii).
Originality rules! It's just dang expensive!
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Sideboy Steamways
Saw a couple of films over the weekend that I'd been meaning to see for ages...
 
And they were both really REALLY good.
Nuff said.
Oh, and I jetwashed the garden too.
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Duty calls...
I have been tagged by my brother so I suppose I ought to cough up some quasi-interesting facts about myself that you don't already know.
1. I was born a whopping 11 weeks early and weighed about three pounds.
2. I met Prince Charles when I was about 8. I told him I was having jam sandwiches for tea. It was surely the highlight of his day.
3. Age 13 or so, following some scrape or other, I needed a head x-ray. After said x-ray, the doctor was heard to comment "My word, you do have rather a large cranium, don't you"
4. When I was 15, shortly after telling my mum I wanted a moped, because I was responsible and sensible on the roads, etc, etc, I cycled into the back of a parked car. I swear I can still see car paint in the crack in my tooth. And root canal work is no fun AT ALL. And I never got that moped.
5. Both of my big toes have this many toenails each:- None at all.
6. My wife's cousin was once World Snooker Champion. (OK that's not technically about me, but I'm clutching at straws now). He's 9th now, so still not too bad. Hasn't sent any money our way though.
I gather I'm supposed to tag others now, but I'm fairly sure everyone else has already done it...
If not, I tag Sez... and, er, anyone else reading this who hasn't done it.
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What a great naame
So the replacement for the PS2 will be called the PS3. How original.
And the Xbox replacement is the Xbox 360. (Can't call it '2' because that's less than 3, and we can't make ourselves look inferior to Sony, now, can we?)
And Nintendo's Gamecube replacement will be called Revolution. Cool name, no?
I knew it was too good to be true... They have today announced that the new console will NOT be called Revolution, as they themselves, and anyone interested have been calling it for the past six months.
It is, in fact, going to be called...
Click the link if you don;t believe me. Wii. Pronounced "Wee".
No jokes to be had there AT ALL.
*shakes head*
I know the name of the things isn't THAT important in the grand scheme of things, but Wii? What was wrong with Revolution? At least ONE console could have had a half-decent name!
PS Actually, it's growing on me already... but I already feel sorry for every spotty game store oik having to put up with countless schoolboy toilet humour "jokes" every time someone tells them they "really need a wii" etc etc...
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