First Year Welcome Party

Qn: "What is the combined age of the "Chuckle Brothers"?

Ans: - you'd know if you'd been at our First Year party...

We had a quiz, and Guitar Hero, and a PS3, and Wii Tennis, and 8 player Halo 3, and free drinks and food, and, and, and.....

And it was good.

Many thanks to Warren for bankrolling the operation and Adam, Simon, Dan, Zoe, Sam, Helen, Joan and Amanda for helping make things go with a swing (and apologies if I've missed anyone out). I took a camera (some of our students have got some amazing cameras - we must sort out a Flickr group for pictures) and took some happy snaps.

Full Swing

What half the room does when you shout "smile"

What the other half does..

These folks came first in the Quiz

These came second

And these won the, er, "special" prize

Big riffs. Sam found this amazing disco sound system that we ran Guitar Hero through. And dig those groovy lights on the pillars...

On the left we have Wii Tenis and PS3 Motorstorm, in the middle we have Guitar Hero and on the right, for your pleasure, we have 8 player Halo 3.

It was a great night. Hopefully more (and perhaps less grainy) pictures will surface. I'll put them on Flickr if they do..

Halo 3 Hits Hull

We've been expecting you....

After last night's queuing to get hold of a Legendary Halo 3 pack for number one son (sorted, and what huge box) I set up a 360 on our big plasma screen for a select gathering to have a play. It looks good. Very good. I've not played myself yet, and I had loads of work planned for this evening but......

Guess Where?

Guess Where?
Originally uploaded by RobMiles.

Never Buy Clothes Un-supervised

As part of my drive towards greater sartorial elegance I was pleased to discover that "The Only Shop Where Rob Can Buy Clothes That Fit"(tm) was having a "three for two" deal on shirts at their new web site.

I was very proud of the way that I actually went Internet clothes shopping with a spring in my digital step, as it were, and ordered up three (including a rather racy one with red stripes).

I told number one wife about my cleverness at teatime.

"I hope they are not all cotton" she said. "If they are, they'll be swines to iron, and I'll make you do it".

Hmm. Oh well. They arrive in a couple of days. Here's hoping for a bit of polyester goodness..

Halo House

In keeping with the much anticipated launch of Halo 3 real soon, tonight I saw a house with "Master Chief" windows.

This is an original, completely unretouched picture. And I've got the RAW file from the camera to prove it. Spooky eh?

Update on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 09:52AM by Rob

Oh, and I've just discovered that Microsoft have decided not to release a version of the game where the Master Chief joins the navy. It was going to be called "Halo Sailor".