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I won’t bore you with any kind of account of my year, but here are some photos I took during it. I guess I didn’t take all of them since I’m in some of them, but I don’t remember so good about those ones. I’ve been working my way through Said the Gramophone’s 75 tracks of the year with an odd cocktail of revulsion and delight. Among the delight, this wonderful song by Vic Chesnutt. Often songs that aren’t about what they seem to be about never let you in on the twist – it was years before I realised Belle & Sebastian’s Century of Elvis was about a cat. Vic’s is from the school of “Two minutes in, just come out and say it.” Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I approve. It’d be a shame for anyone to hear a couplet so painfully double-edged as “When you touched a friend of mine / I thought I would lose my mind” and miss the grim joke. Oh yeah, good news: I’m working on a really long post about a really esoteric subject that involves lots of strong opinions about game design ideas I have no experience working with. 
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Jonas: Space Invader ice cubes! I think I just realised my life is incomplete.
Dan: I never realized how depressing it is to see a year condensed into 40 pictures. Don't even ask me why!
spuzman: Love that cake! Must've been a blast to eat.
Oh, and come back to the SF Bay sometime. We all miss you. Jazmeister: Here's to a good year!
Jonn: I saw that first pic of Moran and wondered why he looked so familiar. Then I saw the second one and the caption and went "hang a tic, that's the Black Books guy!"
]France’s pimary exports are textiles and macro photography. Also, berets. (You thought I was going to say "surrendering", dincha?) ]Halloween. That's a really good impression of a pale British man. icouldbeahero: Nice photos sir. Was that endless meal restaurant a Fogo de Chao, perchance?
Chijts: Those ice cube shots are by far the best, especially number one and two. That's some sweet macro action right there.
Walternat0r: Loving the guy made out of slate and the manatee
Lack_26: A good year then?
My year was 2/3 STRESS 3/12 stress 1/12 relaxing. That's my year in a nut shell, still, I can't believe that's almost a new decade. When someone said that I said something along the lines of 'What? Since when, no... f*ck off'. I'd forgotten that 2010 would be the start of the next decade, I'd only just got settled with the 00's. Also, 2010 is still pegged down as THE FUTURE, it certainly doesn't feel like the future yet. This Christmas better at least see something major come out of CERN. And I'm definitely going to make some retro-ice blocks. Perhaps I could stick jelly cubes together to make characters from the years when you could see all the individual colours in a pixel from about 1m away from the screen. Desmolas: Pretentious macro of wall?
Laser: I hope you don't mind me using your picture of you in a silly wig in my media presentation about your blog, Mr Francis :)
Zeno Cosini: Excellent. By cycling through these pictures very quickly I can imagine what you'd experience, Tom, if you drowned on the final day of the year (not that you will!)
Dr. Nerfball: @Pentadact: Yep, I've been down here for fifteen minutes (for some reason), I've seen a single lonely snow flake. Kinda depressing somehow...
Also those are some purty photos, I still laugh when I see the walrus one, it looks so happy to see you! Did you bring him his bukkit? Oh yeah, and there's to much sunlight reflecting on the fifth picture down, or I'm just blind, what's it supposed to be of? =P Inferno: Awww. This was so happy :D
DM Osbon: Some cool pics but is that a kitty hiding in the basket(tempted with a biscuit) or something more sinister?
Lomithiel: @DM Osbon - That, I believe, is a Vortigaunt. :D (Unless I'm not looking at the same picture)
Oddtwang: I saw a snowflake down here, thought it was something falling in front of my face!
Did you enjoy your trip to see Family Guy being 'written'? Rei Onryou: Indeed it's a Vortigaunt. Everyone knows they love cookies.
I wish I had a girlfriend who would surprise me with Schrödinger's cake. You are a very lucky man. Pod!: Nice pics, but it shows how dull American cities are. Just big boring grids. This was my major gripe with the Sim City games -- they just let you make big boring American grid-cities :(
Also: Did you make the ice cubes yourself? Jazmeister: Rei: You could make your own cake? And then eat it and play the song? You could even spend thirty years building glaDOS to eat it with you. Problem solved in three easy steps!
Angus: These photos make me slightly jealous
EGTF: Looks like you had a lovely year Tom, despite the robbery. Here's to you and the rest of the James regulars, hope the next year is good for you all.
(Pedantic correction: I went and googled him to find more of his lovely work, turns out he's called Chesnutt, not Chestnutt)
Captane: Some really nice pics here, definitely got a knack for photography. Good job.
@Jonn How do you export surrendering only way I can think of is a roundabout way of saying you win a lot. Chives: Cool shots, and cool snowflakes. But y'know they kind of get in eachother's way. :P
Davie: Nice. I especially like the first one. You're a talented photographer.
Anonymous: I to am a fan of nice photography and games and this site, so thanks for sharing your pictures Tom and to all I say seasons greetings have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year :)
TooNu: Oh bollocks, see I shouldn't write anything when I have just woken up...anyway that is me above.
Nano: The cake was a lie.
Crilly: Man. I haven't even heard of this person till now, and cried after reading that page. CURSE YOU TOM!
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