Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘My Stuff’ Category
Ragnarok 58 Coming Soon
Friday, March 11th, 2011Ragnarok Issue 58 is at the printers according to the SFSFW blog so my Bare Belly Coast article for Wessex Games’ Strange Tydes will soon be available in lovely print form. Time to finish off the Strange Grogge companion article.
HMS Liverpool
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011Dark Dwarf posted quite a few pictures of HMS Liverpool on her last visit to the city on his blog: The Leaving of HMS Liverpool HMS Liverpool I just thought I’d post one of the ones I took last Sunday morning too.
Removing a Category from WordPress 3.1 RSS Feed
Sunday, February 27th, 2011I filter a category out of my WordPress RSS feed because it’s all my tweets from the week. I want an archive (mostly for myself) but I don’t want to blast anyone following my RSS feed with them every week. I’d been using code like this in functions.php in my theme to screen them… [codesyntax […]
North John Street Ventilation Station Horse Head
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011On the opposite side of North John Street from the Royal Insurance Building is one of the ventilation shafts for the Mersey Road Tunnel. It’s not as grand an affair as the Georges Dock Ventilation Tower and Central Station with its statues and other decoration but it does merit Grade II listing. It’s quite a […]
Lennon European Peace Monument
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011I don’t usually photograph the Beatles attractions around the city but the Lennon European Peace Monument was catching the sun as I was looking for a vantage point in Chavasse Park to photograph the Royal Insurance Building’s golden dome from last week.
Royal Insurance Building Dome Liverpool
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011The golden dome on the Royal Insurance Building in Dale Street stands out on Liverpool’s skyline. 34m (110ft) above Street level is the highest point on the Grade II* listed building started in 1897 and finished in 1903. Sadly J Francis Doyle’s Edwardian Baroque building has been derelict for most of my time in Liverpool.
Too Many Ideas – 5 Today
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011It doesn’t feel like five years ago today that I started my Too Many Ideas blog after being persuade it was a good idea by Kim Knox on a writers night out at the Everyman. To celebrate I could have baked a fruit cake or a chocolate cake but instead I had a look to […]
I was a Teenage Spam Bot
Monday, January 24th, 2011Its funny how ideas can suddenly hit from out of nowhere. Well they feel like they come like flashes of lightning but really they must simmer around in the subconcious waiting for their moment. One hit me earlier – today seems to have been a day where I’ve picked up quite a few new followers […]
Victorian House Model Extensions
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011I noticed last year that the 25mm version of my cardboard house models had picked up a steady stream of downloads. When I originally posted them back in 2007 there didn’t seem to be a lot of interest so I’d never really followed up on them. Now there is I had a dig and found […]
Accretion City
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011I’ve tried to create a picture like this for some time – a cityscape with layers of different types of building like real cities have. I started this attempt earlier today and I think its my best attempt to date. Its built up of several CityEngine created models and a few from Cornucopia 3D. The […]