Anonymous asked, whats a Gamma Goblin, and to be honest I havent got a clue. It was just two words I put together while struggling to come up with a blogger username. I wanted something unusual and Gamma Goblin seemed like it would do. I googled the name at the time and there were maybe 3 or 4 abstract uses of the name but now there are loads. I can't explain why the words came about but it probably has to do with the Italian prog group Goblin. I was listening to a song of theirs quite a lot around that time called "drugs theme". Its from the soundtrack of an some old Italian program called Gamma which was also the name of the single "Drugs Theme" appeared on.
You can listen to it here which is hosted at goblin.org [both dead :( try this youtube vid instead]. Thats definately worth a visit if you are anyway curious about the group and their music. The song itself is quite a typical Goblin tune. It's got a prehistoric drum machine march thing starting it off before a plomping bass line comes in, later filled with guitar, rhodes piano and strings.I continued the Goblin theme with my user picture. The one I'm using now is a manifestation of an earlier image where I used Goblins lettering of "Goblin" to spell out Gamma Goblin. I don't think I ever used that one though. The current one keeps the moon and some red underneat it (yeah its my face upside down). I originally kept the lettering on that one but it never shrank very well on comments so I ditched it.
Strangely enough, fitting in with Goblin's Drugs Theme, there is a song by Hallucingen (Simon Posford of Shpongle) called Gamma Goblins on his Lone Deranger album. It's a great goa/psy-trance tune although hardly his best in my opinion. I was going to put up the Infected Mushroom mix of Gamma Goblins for you to listen to as I think it fits better than the original, out of context at least, but I found a video on youtube where someone has put a Gamma Goblins video together using bits from old National Archive footage. I think the main video being used in it is called something like "Drugs are like that", which is basically a preachy video about how playing with lego is like taking drugs.
So what is an actual Gamma Goblin then? I came up with the image on the right a few months back. Its basically a composite of two overlapping copies of the current banner image turned on its side and a little image jiggery pokery done to it. I thought it looked like some kind of monster thing so I added the greek symbol for Gamma around its neck and called it the Gamma Goblin. I once asked a friend of mine what it looked like, he thought it was tits and a thong. So maybe thats it, maybe the Gamma Goblin is just tits and a thong. If anyone has their own ideas on the matters of Gamma Goblins, tits or thongs, please let me know in a comment :)
Thanks for reminding me about that one Gavin. I actually came across that when looking up other Gamma Goblin user names on the net a while back.
They are special Halloween boob implants that glow in the dark, for finding your way when the lights are out. I surprised I didnt see the whole boob/thong thing with that image, to be honest, even now I find it hard to see the image of a woman. They just look like spooky eyes in a big face with narrow shoulders.
Gamma goblins are probably the next ones up from beta goblins. Beta goblins are the critters that get into your PC and your code base when you are reaching the eve of an important deadline on a programming project. Suddenly everything that can goes wrong, and also things you thought could never go wrong, do go wrong. Like for instance just now my editor stopped recognising my keyboard for no reason, except for the delete key which brought up the context menu.
Well you know what they say about programming problems...
I recently looked up what wikipedia had to say about Goblins... "A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature". It was all sounding well until they mentioned illiterate. I wonder am I famous enough for my own wikipedia page yet. Perhaps I could troll myself on encyclopedia dramatica :)
Anonymous asked, whats a Gamma Goblin, and to be honest I havent got a clue. It was just two words I put together while struggling to come up with a blogger username. I wanted something unusual and Gamma Goblin seemed like it would do. I googled the name at the time and there were maybe 3 or 4 abstract uses of the name but now there are loads. I can't explain why the words came about but it probably has to do with the Italian prog group Goblin. I was listening to a song of theirs quite a lot around that time called "drugs theme". Its from the soundtrack of an some old Italian program called Gamma which was also the name of the single "Drugs Theme" appeared on.
You can listen to it 
Strangely enough, fitting in with Goblin's Drugs Theme, there is a song by Hallucingen (Simon Posford of Shpongle) called Gamma Goblins on his Lone Deranger album. It's a great goa/psy-trance tune although hardly his best in my opinion. I was going to put up the Infected Mushroom mix of Gamma Goblins for you to listen to as I think it fits better than the original, out of context at least, but I found a video on youtube where someone has put a Gamma Goblins video together using bits from old National Archive footage. I think the main video being used in it is called something like "Drugs are like that", which is basically a preachy video about how playing with lego is like taking drugs.
So what is an actual Gamma Goblin then? I came up with the image on the right a few months back. Its basically a composite of two overlapping copies of the current banner image turned on its side and a little image jiggery pokery done to it. I thought it looked like some kind of monster thing so I added the greek symbol for Gamma around its neck and called it the Gamma Goblin. I once asked a friend of mine what it looked like, he thought it was tits and a thong. So maybe thats it, maybe the Gamma Goblin is just tits and a thong. If anyone has their own ideas on the matters of Gamma Goblins, tits or thongs, please let me know in a comment :)
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Clearly it comes from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_globulin
I must admit, that's what I thought it looked like too, hehe. Funny boobs though, I'm sure they're not supposed to glow like that :D
Thanks for reminding me about that one Gavin. I actually came across that when looking up other Gamma Goblin user names on the net a while back.
They are special Halloween boob implants that glow in the dark, for finding your way when the lights are out. I surprised I didnt see the whole boob/thong thing with that image, to be honest, even now I find it hard to see the image of a woman. They just look like spooky eyes in a big face with narrow shoulders.
Gamma goblins are probably the next ones up from beta goblins. Beta goblins are the critters that get into your PC and your code base when you are reaching the eve of an important deadline on a programming project. Suddenly everything that can goes wrong, and also things you thought could never go wrong, do go wrong. Like for instance just now my editor stopped recognising my keyboard for no reason, except for the delete key which brought up the context menu.
Well you know what they say about programming problems...
I recently looked up what wikipedia had to say about Goblins... "A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature". It was all sounding well until they mentioned illiterate. I wonder am I famous enough for my own wikipedia page yet. Perhaps I could troll myself on encyclopedia dramatica :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3XsUR3ZRo
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