Home > G things (various, 2005- )
Sometimes, little bits of creativity crop up on the bloggy bit of this site. They don't really fit anywhere else, and some of them are, I think, quite nice; and otherwise, they'd get kinda lost in the blog archives. This section's where some cherry picking of the better stuff goes on. Updated 5 May 2011
Five years of sleep
I kept a record of the amount of sleep I had from 12 September 2006 to 11 September 2011. It is an ongoing thing. Earlier versions, A year of sleep, Two years of sleep, Three years of sleep, and Four years of sleep. (September 2011)
New Year's resolution
A joke. (December 2010)
Christmas songs in the UK
Quick chart looking at the top five singles for the Christmas week since 1970, the year I was born. Basically, what we see is the 1970s and 80s had a decent proportion of Christmassy songs floating around. I've disqualified blatantly sentimental stuff or novelty records that may have had Christmas-themed videos, but weren't actually Christmas songs. That includes "Stay Another Day" by East 17 which, while a fantastic song, is not a Christmas song. Tacking some bells on to a song, and having a snowy video doesn't make it a Christmas song. (December 2010)
Mount Rainier
Animated gif of a beautiful mountain. (December 2010)
I wouldn't walk 500 miles
And I wouldn't walk 500 more. (October 2010)
My flight intentions
Taking a flight from Toronto to Mexico City, I planned out what I could do with my time in the sky. And acknowledged what I'd actually be doing. (September 2010)
Bouncy ball
A day in the life of. (September 2010)
Keep on truckin'
A slam of text organised in a similar fashion to a poem. (August 2010)
Swyoming pool
Visual wordplay. (August 2010)
Brief conversations
...between sea-based creatures and their land-based namesakes. (August 2010)
Harmony
Playing around with the HTML5 drawing tool Harmony. Drawing baseball players, mostly. (March 2010)
Visual gags for American readers
One of these is easier than the others, but once you've got that one, the others do make sense. (December 2009)
Graph of Smarties
How many of each colour are in a tube of Smarties. (December 2009)
Graph of aeroplane nibbles
How many seeds, sultanas, and "savoury bites" in a bag of stuff given to me on a British Airways flight. (November 2009)
A reply to "Breaking Glass" by David Bowie
What it says. (September 2009)
The hierarchy of popular music
Why Eric Clapton is better than James Brown. (July 2009)
Jörg
Some wee animated drawings of a dog. (July 2009)
Sculpey dudes
I had a bit of writer's block at the time, so just started playing around with Sculpey polymer clay.(May 2009)
Qur'an Qur'an
I should've changed the album title to Riyadh, too, I guess. (April 2009)
If I Had a Hammer
I would guess it's fairly unlikely that someone hasn't done this before, but I've never heard it done, so... (January 2009)
Trevor, Bruce, and Jeremy
Drawing of Trevor McDonald, Bruce Forsyth, and Jeremy Clarkson. (November 2008)
A baseball
Drawing of a baseball. (October 2008)
John McCain
Drawing of a Republican presidential candidate done whilst lying in bed, watching the Phillies beat the Dodgers. I didn't have my mouse, and drawing with a laptop's trackpad can be a pain in the arse, so I tried to draw a picture solely with elipses. (October 2008)
Parrot
I was talking to a friend, trying to think of the word "parrot." It was just whizzing around my brain evading use. In the end I used two other words to describe a parrot: a bird and a jungle creature. (September 2008)
Lager zoo
Simple, really. (August 2008)
FFF salutes the Sugarhill Gang
What the title says. (July 2008)
Ipanema checklist
When I visited Rio de Janeiro, I stayed in the Ipanema area. After several days of meticulous observation, I have completed my research. (May 2008)
Geogradoggies
As is my wont, I'm often slouched in front of my computer ooh-ing and aah-ing at various things on Google Earth. Sometimes one finds dogs in the landscape, or, as I like to call them, "Geogradoggies." (September 2006, March 2008)
Neapolitan man
After getting sun burnt on a beach in Brazil, this was the three main skin tones I was sporting (March 2008)
Nearly USA map
Some missing tiles on a building in São Paulo (February 2008)
Robert Plant
A quick scribble of a rock star. (January 2008)
Raspberry Christmas trees
A drawing I did in my notebook on 25 December 2006.
Safety match
One of the matches in your bathroom speaks out. (October 2007)
Prenzelberg Piranhas
Throughout the summer of 2007, I played softball with a local team in the Berlin Mixed Softball League. That team was the Prenzelberg Piranhas. I had such a massive amount of fun playing with the team, I made a little poster for everyone, to commemorate the season. (September 2007)
Viking pimp, 2107 A.D.
A dumb little drawing and poem. (August 2007)
Batman's recurring dream
Superheroes have weird dreams, too. (July 2007)
Six presidents
The last six presidents of the United States. (May 2007)
The boy who lost his milkshake
Title says it all. (April 2007)
Going to Belgium
Man on a bear, declaring where he's going on holiday. (April 2007)
Big Mac
Sometimes being a vegetarian is really frustrating... (April 2007)
Jesus clarifes
Some people presume to know what his dad thinks, so... (April 2007)
Love
It all depends on how you look at things... (March 2007)
Hexidecimal words
I guess if you've never used HTML or Photoshop, this won't mean anything to you; but for the rest of you, here's some words in the colours that they hexidecimally make. (March 2007)
Musical representation of the 100 metres world record
Mp3s that demonstrates just how fast the last three 100 metres world records are. (March 2007, updated September 2007, August 2008)
Lego sculptures
Sculptures made of Lego, unsurprisingly. (January 2007)
No bugs or tickers
Post-it notes stuck on my television screen so I can watch any of the 20-odd channels I receive without having to see any digital on-screen graphics (station idents or news tickers). (January 2007)
Dirk Kuyt
A quick doodle of the Liverpool striker. (November 2006)
Rasputin in spilt paint
Title says it all. (October 2006)
Roger
A timid bird. I thought I might do a series of these, but in the end I just did two. (October 2006)
Doing laundry
An exercise in remembering details. (September 2006)
Three Germans
Franz Beckenbauer, Günter Netzer and Rudi Völler. (June 2006)
Blues
What it says. (March 2006)
Tilty and shifty
Shopping photos in Photoshop. (February 2006)
Snow breath
Photos of my breath on a snowy night. (January 2006)
Bill O'Reilly's Happy Holidays
Fox News twat Bill O'Reilly, cut up to sound like a moron. Oh, err, sorry: I mean, more of a moron. (December 2005)
Wax dog
A dinner party, a bit of dripped wax, fiddling fingers: voila!. (November 2005)
Some Yankees
A bunch of late-night drawings done whilst watching the NY Yankees playing live on a three-inch-wide Windows Media Player window. (October 2005)
X Boys
Around the same time, I was doodling and what came out reflected a few NY Yankees results. (October 2005)
Some drawings of famous people
Brian Wilson, Joey and Chandler from Friends, and Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz. (June, July, and August 2005)
Beck lives inside my head
I had an x-ray of my head done after being beaten up, and it revealed a pop singer lives near my nose. (April 2005)
Five years of sleep
I kept a record of the amount of sleep I had from 12 September 2006 to 11 September 2011. It is an ongoing thing. Earlier versions, A year of sleep, Two years of sleep, Three years of sleep, and Four years of sleep. (September 2011)
New Year's resolution
A joke. (December 2010)
Christmas songs in the UK
Quick chart looking at the top five singles for the Christmas week since 1970, the year I was born. Basically, what we see is the 1970s and 80s had a decent proportion of Christmassy songs floating around. I've disqualified blatantly sentimental stuff or novelty records that may have had Christmas-themed videos, but weren't actually Christmas songs. That includes "Stay Another Day" by East 17 which, while a fantastic song, is not a Christmas song. Tacking some bells on to a song, and having a snowy video doesn't make it a Christmas song. (December 2010)
Mount Rainier
Animated gif of a beautiful mountain. (December 2010)
I wouldn't walk 500 miles
And I wouldn't walk 500 more. (October 2010)
My flight intentions
Taking a flight from Toronto to Mexico City, I planned out what I could do with my time in the sky. And acknowledged what I'd actually be doing. (September 2010)
Bouncy ball
A day in the life of. (September 2010)
Keep on truckin'
A slam of text organised in a similar fashion to a poem. (August 2010)
Swyoming pool
Visual wordplay. (August 2010)
Brief conversations
...between sea-based creatures and their land-based namesakes. (August 2010)
Harmony
Playing around with the HTML5 drawing tool Harmony. Drawing baseball players, mostly. (March 2010)
Visual gags for American readers
One of these is easier than the others, but once you've got that one, the others do make sense. (December 2009)
Graph of Smarties
How many of each colour are in a tube of Smarties. (December 2009)
Graph of aeroplane nibbles
How many seeds, sultanas, and "savoury bites" in a bag of stuff given to me on a British Airways flight. (November 2009)
A reply to "Breaking Glass" by David Bowie
What it says. (September 2009)
The hierarchy of popular music
Why Eric Clapton is better than James Brown. (July 2009)
Jörg
Some wee animated drawings of a dog. (July 2009)
Sculpey dudes
I had a bit of writer's block at the time, so just started playing around with Sculpey polymer clay.(May 2009)
Qur'an Qur'an
I should've changed the album title to Riyadh, too, I guess. (April 2009)
If I Had a Hammer
I would guess it's fairly unlikely that someone hasn't done this before, but I've never heard it done, so... (January 2009)
Trevor, Bruce, and Jeremy
Drawing of Trevor McDonald, Bruce Forsyth, and Jeremy Clarkson. (November 2008)
A baseball
Drawing of a baseball. (October 2008)
John McCain
Drawing of a Republican presidential candidate done whilst lying in bed, watching the Phillies beat the Dodgers. I didn't have my mouse, and drawing with a laptop's trackpad can be a pain in the arse, so I tried to draw a picture solely with elipses. (October 2008)
Parrot
I was talking to a friend, trying to think of the word "parrot." It was just whizzing around my brain evading use. In the end I used two other words to describe a parrot: a bird and a jungle creature. (September 2008)
Lager zoo
Simple, really. (August 2008)
FFF salutes the Sugarhill Gang
What the title says. (July 2008)
Ipanema checklist
When I visited Rio de Janeiro, I stayed in the Ipanema area. After several days of meticulous observation, I have completed my research. (May 2008)
Geogradoggies
As is my wont, I'm often slouched in front of my computer ooh-ing and aah-ing at various things on Google Earth. Sometimes one finds dogs in the landscape, or, as I like to call them, "Geogradoggies." (September 2006, March 2008)
Neapolitan man
After getting sun burnt on a beach in Brazil, this was the three main skin tones I was sporting (March 2008)
Nearly USA map
Some missing tiles on a building in São Paulo (February 2008)
Robert Plant
A quick scribble of a rock star. (January 2008)
Raspberry Christmas trees
A drawing I did in my notebook on 25 December 2006.
Safety match
One of the matches in your bathroom speaks out. (October 2007)
Prenzelberg Piranhas
Throughout the summer of 2007, I played softball with a local team in the Berlin Mixed Softball League. That team was the Prenzelberg Piranhas. I had such a massive amount of fun playing with the team, I made a little poster for everyone, to commemorate the season. (September 2007)
Viking pimp, 2107 A.D.
A dumb little drawing and poem. (August 2007)
Batman's recurring dream
Superheroes have weird dreams, too. (July 2007)
Six presidents
The last six presidents of the United States. (May 2007)
The boy who lost his milkshake
Title says it all. (April 2007)
Going to Belgium
Man on a bear, declaring where he's going on holiday. (April 2007)
Big Mac
Sometimes being a vegetarian is really frustrating... (April 2007)
Jesus clarifes
Some people presume to know what his dad thinks, so... (April 2007)
Love
It all depends on how you look at things... (March 2007)
Hexidecimal words
I guess if you've never used HTML or Photoshop, this won't mean anything to you; but for the rest of you, here's some words in the colours that they hexidecimally make. (March 2007)
Musical representation of the 100 metres world record
Mp3s that demonstrates just how fast the last three 100 metres world records are. (March 2007, updated September 2007, August 2008)
Lego sculptures
Sculptures made of Lego, unsurprisingly. (January 2007)
No bugs or tickers
Post-it notes stuck on my television screen so I can watch any of the 20-odd channels I receive without having to see any digital on-screen graphics (station idents or news tickers). (January 2007)
Dirk Kuyt
A quick doodle of the Liverpool striker. (November 2006)
Rasputin in spilt paint
Title says it all. (October 2006)
Roger
A timid bird. I thought I might do a series of these, but in the end I just did two. (October 2006)
Doing laundry
An exercise in remembering details. (September 2006)
Three Germans
Franz Beckenbauer, Günter Netzer and Rudi Völler. (June 2006)
Blues
What it says. (March 2006)
Tilty and shifty
Shopping photos in Photoshop. (February 2006)
Snow breath
Photos of my breath on a snowy night. (January 2006)
Bill O'Reilly's Happy Holidays
Fox News twat Bill O'Reilly, cut up to sound like a moron. Oh, err, sorry: I mean, more of a moron. (December 2005)
Wax dog
A dinner party, a bit of dripped wax, fiddling fingers: voila!. (November 2005)
Some Yankees
A bunch of late-night drawings done whilst watching the NY Yankees playing live on a three-inch-wide Windows Media Player window. (October 2005)
X Boys
Around the same time, I was doodling and what came out reflected a few NY Yankees results. (October 2005)
Some drawings of famous people
Brian Wilson, Joey and Chandler from Friends, and Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz. (June, July, and August 2005)
Beck lives inside my head
I had an x-ray of my head done after being beaten up, and it revealed a pop singer lives near my nose. (April 2005)