The Gentlemens’ Haberdashery

For the Discerning Gentleman

Places Brock hasn’t visited Lately

Posted in Hats by finalstrife Friday November 7, 2008 at about 10:58 pm

Yeah, I’m doing this.

The (bucket) list:

-My house

-Megan’s House

-The Moon (it will never happen)

-Canada (he’ll claim he has but he hasn’t)

-The shower (I watched him go a whole summer shower free but scat filled)

-A bistro (this one could be wrong, I’ll be honest)

-Two bistros (Feeling confident on this one though)

-Two bistros at once  (well, he almost accomplished this by quantum tunneling through two connected Bistros)

-The Rockwall in Trees Gym (Seriously, does he ever work out?)

-His girlfriends house (this one is low, I know.  No pride from this corner)

-Russia (admittedly far away)

Annnnd that’s it for now.  Hopefully by the end of this weekend he can cross some of those off.

Man, I Have Wheels Now

Posted in Odds and Ends, Spectacles by Bjørn Wednesday November 5, 2008 at about 7:10 pm

So I bought a car. I mean, it’s kind of a car. (more…)

Hey I am Writing a Thing

Posted in Odds and Ends by Bjørn Monday October 20, 2008 at about 10:43 am

I haven’t posted an update in a while, so here is this.  I know some of you complain that you don’t know enough about what’s happening in my life (read:  one of you complains that you don’t know enough about what’s happening in my life), so here’s a (fairly) thorough update (parenthetical statement).

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Fictional Women

Posted in Hats by Bjørn Sunday October 12, 2008 at about 8:17 pm

I saw Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist today.  This is convenient, because now when people ask me what kind of girls I’m into, I have a single example to which to refer them.  The Norah character is basically awesome and it is sad that she isn’t a real person.  I am okay with the level of patheticness pining after a fictional woman brings me.

The Sum Total of My Possessions…

Posted in Hats, Odds and Ends by Bjørn Sunday July 27, 2008 at about 5:01 am

… is sitting around me as I speak. I can itemize it, if you’d like. If you don’t like, you can get bent. (more…)

Kinematograph 7: A Fraction of the Sum, The Middle and the Thumb

Posted in Kinematograph by Bjørn Saturday July 5, 2008 at about 8:03 pm

Every six months seems to be a good span for these things, eh? Anyway, self-imposed internet deadlines are ridiculous. Here are more short movie reviews that no one cares about. Christ, the movies from this update I watched more than a year ago. For reference, including these ones, there are 217 movies on the list. (more…)

Harvard Calls, explained

Posted in Hats, Odds and Ends by Bjørn Saturday July 5, 2008 at about 2:11 am

So some of you might notice that when I am away on AIM, it often says HC, or hc, or Harvard Calls.  It might be perplexing, but the most astute of you will realize that this tends to coincide with when I sleep.  The basic gist is this:  When I was a freshman, I was taking a nap.  During my nap, I had a dream where my phone kept ringing.  In my dream, I answered it, and it turned out to be the “Harvard Collegiate Dictionary”, asking me about something or the other.  It turned out my phone really was ringing, and I eventually woke up and answered it.  Long story short, the concept of the Harvard dictionary calling me became the impetus for “Harvard Calls”, my code phrase for “I am sleeping.”  So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Working on my site

Posted in Hats by finalstrife Wednesday July 2, 2008 at about 9:55 am

http://the-gentlemens-haberdashery.com/jormungandr/

Teaching myself html through an amazing tutorial at www.echoecho.com.  Definitely worth checking out if you had any desire to learn html, javascript, css, flash, etc.  The tutorials are relevant, easily approachable, and come self equipped with quizzes that, while you may feel silly taking, help cement what you are reading.  Please though, for gods sake, don’t take my page as an example of what comes from reading their site.  What I am doing right now is splashing up each new lesson at some place on my site to make sure I know how to do it.  I would never suggest taking it as an example.

More to come.

How do I made gaem?

Posted in Odds and Ends by Bjørn Tuesday May 20, 2008 at about 6:30 am

Some of you might know that for the past dozen months or so, I’ve been working on-and-off on an amateur computer game. You can read about it on its new page right here at TGH.  In general, I’ve been far more interested in doing stuff with this recently, so I’ve gotten quite a bit of the underlying architecture done.  Still very little visible content, but all the background stuff is falling into place.  Soon you might even be able to target another ship!  And maybe shoot at it!

Frabjous Day

Posted in Odds and Ends by Bjørn Monday April 7, 2008 at about 6:35 pm

I got a phone call this morning, and it would appear that the firm in Greensburg I interviewed with a couple weeks ago really wants me to come aboard.  I tried to play it a little coy and told her I’d take a couple days to consider it, but the only thing to really consider is when I’m going to start/where I’m going to live.  Attention Greensburg buds: I am coming back.

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