A journey through marriage, publishing, motorracing and gaming… The adventures of Lofty and Stumpy
Posted on January 16, 2010 by jonners99No Comments
The votes are in. Four of the nine shortlisted films failed to garner a single vote, these were:
The Dark Knight and The Bourne Trilogy were next receiving just 9.5% of the vote each. This leaves the top 3 films of the ‘noughties’ as voted for by you.
We have a tie for second place:
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Posted on January 11, 2010 by jonners992 Comments
This last decade saw us grow up, when it started I was 12, this means my memories of the previous decade are slim, the ‘noughties’ then will be the decade that film took over my life. The last ten years saw Cathy and I doing degrees in the subject, neither of us are now working with anything to do with the industry but we both still have a love for the medium. Certainly the overblown special effects that have come in this decade have often come at the expense of plot but that is not to say that there have not been some great films. Film is an entertainment medium and the fact that 8 of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time came out in this decade shows that audiences have been entertained. Our lists are not ordered by preference but chronologically. My wife could not pick 10 and so has 11 instead and the nominees for film of the decade will be voted for by you from that shortlist.
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Posted on January 6, 2010 by jonners99No Comments
So to the list of sporting achievements of the decade. Again by Trefor Little and again in no particular order here are the athletes who shone in their chosen fields.
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Posted on January 3, 2010 by jonners99No Comments
2009 has not been the best of years for video games in my opinion. Modern Warfare 2 seems largely to blame for this in that it gave developers an excuse to postpone and tighten their news games. Therefore the first three months of 2010 are going to be pretty manic. That being said though, there have been plenty of very good games this year and now that I have an Xbox 360 I have experienced my first taste of HD gaming… and it is good.
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Posted on January 2, 2010 by jonners991 Comment
I asked my resident king of sports knowledge (I say king meaning he knows more than me) Trefor Little (aka my dad) to write down the top 5 sporting achievements of 2009. In no particular order then:
Come back on the 4th for his list of the top 5 achievements of the decade. What do you think?
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by jonners99No Comments
5. Kept my job – While lots of other people were made redundant by the credit crunch I have thus far kept my job… I also started earning a little on the side with my web design and hosting becoming partially self employed
4. Built a computer – Before December I had never built a computer, now I have and the sense of accomplishment is strong (nerd)
3. Center Parcs – Having not been since I was a lot younger I was worried it would be a little rubbish. It was not and I had a great time.
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Posted on December 31, 2009 by jonners991 Comment
This has been a decade when gaming technology has come on leaps and bounds. While the 1990’s were the decade of the third dimension the 2000’s have been about innovative control and high definition. That being said, a lot of the best games I have played came out towards the beginning of the decade. This list is largely comprising the games into which I have sunk and will continue to sink a large amount of my time due to their excellence in either single or multiplayer.
Posted on January 17, 2009 by jonners992 Comments
Right the talote.co.uk site is down at present because six years ago I didn’t have a debit card to buy a domain name with and now the person who did it for me has cancelled it… all is good though it just means that this list is going to be published in full here as well. 2008 was a very good year for films, there were a number of high points with Mama Mia becoming the highest grossing film in the UK of all time and The Dark Knight becoming the 3rd highest grossing film of all time. We saw and liked many films but in the end we could only pick ten.
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by jonners99No Comments
Right number one is a bit of a no brainer so I may as well start there and get slowly worse. Overall 2008 was a very good year for me if you discount the shoddy documentary I did for my 3rd year coursework. I had a good time, met some lovely people and am in a city I love.
1. Getting Married
2. Having Christmas in Denver with my new family, old family and best friend, what more do you need over Christmas.
3. Going on honeymoon
4. Getting a job I really enjoy
5. Seeing New Orleans (2nd favourite team) beat San Diego (least favourite team) at Wembley… if Denver were less rubbish at the end of the season then they would be here instead.
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by jonners992 Comments
Right this years list may be a little bit harder than usual thanks to Lovefilm who have supplied me with a steady stream of Wii and Ds games. Sure many of them turned out to be poor (improve your French) but some (disaster: day of crisis and de blob were gaming gold). As with last year the list only contains games that were released this year. Which is good as otherwise Half Life 2 which is getting old now would be top of the list.
