Skeptheistica
A skeptheist from the land of Skeptheistica
Lost?
069 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
I am filled with a closeness and caring empathy whenever I look at this photo i took back in February. I added the words myself, that try to best describe what I know is being felt by the subject even though it would never be admitted.
Goodbye Christopher Hitchens
0155 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
I’ll smoke you a kipper for breakfast
You were legendary, logical, rational and always incredible to watch in a debate
Re: Norway & Amy Winehouse
0300 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
In response to all the incredibly ignorant bullshit I’ve seen on facebook in the past 24 hours
People don’t become junkies for shits and giggles, its always because of some trauma, abuse or events in the past that have not been dealt with that the person cant cope with emotionally and they spiral into depression/addiction. Nobody ‘brings that on themselves’. That woman had a mother, a father, family, a partner and best friends and very close friends, just like those innocent people in Norway.
How about we Blame Norway for ‘bringing it on themselves’ for having such lax security?… How about just because you didn’t like the woman rather than showing how ignorant and fucking petty you are you just shut the fuck up instead and show some respect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
Ogmor-by-Sea 13th June 2011
1339 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
Amazing evening! Can’t wait for the next one!
It’s going to happen
0365 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
777Challenge is going to happen… watch this space
Recent films
0636 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
Inception: quite possibly one of the greatest films ever made! A more intellectual man’s Matrix, deeper on more ‘layers’, much more believable setting that draws you deeper into the film, and oh! that closing shot!
The Expendables:
Kick ass action film that delivers everything you hope it will but think it ultimately wont. This film delivers so much more than you hope!
Looking forward to Scott Pilgrim next!
My Finale
0666 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
My Finale
Thanks for being such fabulous work mates, I’ve never felt more at home. Its been an awesome 7 months i shan’t forget.
All I could think about today was:
Cardiff Parkrun 5km event
0691 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
Well last Saturday I did my first timed event. A 5km run around Bute park in Cardiff. Came in 147th with a time of 27:05. Pretty average but still was nice to get my first timed event under my belt (I hate running. I’m a cyclist by nature and I just cant seem to get the mental focus required for running, but its free and money isn’t something I have at the moment).
What amazed me the most was that it was just the most well organised event I’ve ever seen on a grass roots level. I mean this thing is done every Saturday in a busy inner city park with sophisticated timing equipment, timing tags, barcode ID’s etc and its all done by volunteers. It was incredible.
If your interested in running one of these events, be sure to stop by the main website PARKRUN WEBSITE
They post full race results and photo’s of every event and monitor personal best times as well as age average % performance monitoring which is outstanding for monitoring your performance and also for comparing against your friends/race buddies.
The Cardiff Parkrun can be found here PARKRUN CARDIFF
Here’s the ‘action’ photo’s of yours truly being mediocre and being overtaken by a guy pushing a pram and various small children! 
I really do hate running……
A little bit of Altitude
0698 days
by Leon
in Art/graphics
So I was trawling through my old bag of photo’s from some 17 years ago and I came across some old photo’s of some artwork I’d created around 1991/1992 when I was about 17/18. Altitude was an old band name for a band I was in at the time. I designed the logo as a simple pencil sketch than tried to do something on art board. It was about this time I bought my first airbrush after falling in love with HR Giger’s work. The Altitude logo was one of my very first attempts at airbrushing…..
It was rubbish!! Ladies and gentlemen, exhibit A:
Many many years later (yesterday to be precise) I was scanning these old photo’s for prosperity and was really a bit bummed that the original was so shockingly bad (I thought it was cool as hell as an 18 yr old obviously!!)
So AutoCAD and Photoshop in hand I decided to re-work it digitally and see if it could look presentable to the modern world of 2010……
Altitude Logo 2010
My Best mates birthday
0699 days
by Leon
in Day to Day
My best mate Jason had his 36th birthday celebrations last night, we had an absolute blast! we started off in the best pub in Aberdare, The Cambrian (obviously!) where i bumped in to some old friends I’d not seen for years! Hello Messa’s Darren and Paul Jones!!, did the usual Witherspoons, Conway, Pickled Pepper then finished the night in the Beluga Bar which was jumping!
Much Jaegermeister & Monster was had by all, along with copious amounts of vodka. Along the way we saw a rugby themed hen night (see pics), Gail (hello Gail o/ ) Jane and Lisa Webb and various other people we’d not seen in years.
Ended the night with Stuart and Kellie having a riotous laugh with Queens who are genuinely hilarious and a right good laugh!
Came home very drunk and very chipper at such an excellent night.
