Remember this video?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY[/youtube]
His name is Matt, and he runs Where The Hell is Matt.
He’s doing another one, and he’s filming a bit of it in Manchester. He’s filming it next Wednesday at 6pm. There’s an event on facebook on it.
I’m aiming to be there, will you be?
For those of you who follow me on twitter on almost stalkerish levels, you’ll know that a URL I have analytics access to was retweeted by Hulk Hogan yesterday (not sure why I’m linking to Hogan, if you don’t know who he is you really have lived a sheltered life). I took bets on how many visitors he’d bring to the website. One person – Sam Crocker – gave a suggestion. He was off. Way off.
So, at 7pm on a wet Thursday in Manchester, here’s what the Analytics have shown for the page that was tweeted by Hogan:-
60 visits. In comparison. I got retweeted by Rand Fishkin once and here’s the traffic I got:-
Over 1000 visits! Therefore, Rand Fishkin is more powerful (in terms of online reach) than Hulk Hogan.
I guess I should explain about the tweet in question that Hulk Hogan retweeted. The tweet was about Callum Murray. Callum is a 9 year old kid that suffers from Arnold Chiari Malformation. You can read the full story here. It’s long, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s white text on a black background. Long story short the poor little guy is in pain everyday and desperately needs an operation from the only place that specialises in this condition – The Chiari Institute. The Chiari Institute is in New York.
If you can help, please please do. Be it a retweet of this post, or if you can donate cash. Every penny will be greatfully received.
As an incentive, if that total rises above £500 by next week, I’ll link on my Twitter to a wrestling match I’ve been in. You can probably find it on youtube, but you’d now be a selfish cunt for searching for it now & not donating.
Thank you.
“Sheffield is the world’s oldest football club.”
“No it isn’t.”
“Yes it is, check Wikipedia.”
“Yeah you probably shouldn’t trust Wikipedia. Look! It now says you’re the manager of Sheffield FC!”
And so was another day in work. Dan had changed Wikipedia page for Sheffield FC to make me as their Manager – unfortunately it never got changed back, and the Grimsby Telegraph said I was Sheffield FC manager.
Marvellous!
It worked out okay. You’re Supposed to Be At Home got mentioned in The Cod Almighty Fanzine, making it a huge traffic day for my blog. Result!
Unfortunately, I lost 2-0.
Last weekend I spent the weekend in the Lass o’Gowrie for In Da 80’s, a classic gaming event featuring much alcohol and game playing. As the weekend was wet, I didn’t mind spending it indoors, plus I get to speak to many people I’ve gotten to known in the year or two I’ve spent going to these events. But one thing I’ve yet to do is win a tournament.
This changed last weekend.
You see, when I was the tender age of 10, my favourite item I owned was a Commodore 64. For those who don’t know, the majority of the games came out on cassette tapes, which was played into the machine with a tapedeck. In the summer of that year, my tapedeck’s eject button broke, leaving one game in there – Buggy Boy.
Being my favourite toy, and an alright game stuck in the tapedeck (which I could still play), I played it religiously, getting pretty good. Mum thought she wasted my summer. I proved her wrong this weekend.
You see, one of the games in the 80’s Pentathlon was Buggy Boy. A few pints and large swathes of hogging the system, and this was the result (I use my online handle “retrogarden”).
Winning!
I won a free pint and £20 gift vouchers (in the raffle), and is a rare highlight in what has been a bit of a down month! Damn post holiday blues!
What’s been your best gaming moment?