Console Bonanza...

I've been on the swapping craze for nearly a week now, and I've nearly finished swapping everything I'm swapping.

Here's the breakdown:

My Bike: So, its been sitting in the yard for yonks, and now I'm finally getting rid of it. I would pay to have it taken away (well, not really, but you know what I mean) and so I'm getting something for nothing really. Anyhoo, I'm swapping the bike for a Sega Dreamcast. A bit of an old games console, but not so old that its crap or anything, its almost as good as a PS2, which allows me to link nicely to the next item.

http://www.bwf.be

My Handheld: Okay, so I get bored quickly, I know that I only got it like a month ago, but its already boring. So, I'm swapping that too. And I'm getting (as you may have guessed from the link) a Playstation 2!! Now I can finally play Eye Toy!!!

http://punkten.se

My Joystick: My old trusty wireless joystick, also going. In replacement: Half-Life 2, Doom 3 and Counterstrike Source. Not that non-gamers will understand, but these are some of the best games of this generation.

Look like I've got a lot of gaming ahead of me!

pk-exmouth 'Teeny Tiny Video' Released

I am proud to announce the release of pk-exmouth's first video "Teeny Tiny Video"

Its just 25sec long, so enjoy it while it lasts...

http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=att&disp=attd&attid=0.1&th=101b9543c4f1353e

(If you get a log on screen, then enter the username: urbangraffiti password: parkour)

pk-exmouth Video Release Date!

My new video (Teeny Tiny Video) ,which is a 25 second edit with a few key Exmouth hot spots, will be released tommorrow!

(providing that my disk doesn't bugger up like it did today!)

Hair Cut

http://www.bowlerfc2001.fsnet.co.uk

Had my hair cut yesterday, so now its, er, shorter.

yay me!

No pics yet, soon though!

Swapz...

www.swapz.co.uk

He He, been putting all my old junk up for swap. Great system...

Get rid of your old junk today!

Exercise...

http://aig.gospelcom.net

Just started my extensive, well - more extensive, exercise plan. Goes as follows:

10 push ups

20 stomach crunches

20 knee ups

And I do this twice daily, (before bed and when I wake up)

V. exausting, but wakes you up in a flash!

The Lovely Bones...

http://trashotron.com

Finally got round to reading The Lovely Bones. Really compusive reading, finished it in about 2 hours! I'd recomend it to anyone and everyone!

Rain, Rain, Rain...

Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was 17?

Nope, didn't think so!

Reguardless, its tipping it down here. Had to get me brolly out...

Alexander...

www.orange.com

Me and Mum went for our weekly Orange Wednesday film session at the cinema the other day to see Alexander. May I just say. Oh dear!

You would think that with Colin Farrel, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer and Anthony Hopkins, they could make a great historic epic. Think again.

About 1/5 if the audience walked out at the intermision!

An official Jexxy Rating of 3/10

GMail...

I've finally got myself a gmail account!!! I recomend everyone else does so as well! 1GB of storage!!!

Anyhoo, my new address is: jerryhcooke (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com
(replace the (-at) with @, and so on, just avoiding junk mail)

Arrived...

My new phone (and by new, I do of course me used and from ebay) finally arrived, so I am once again text message-able. Horray!!!

Evolution...

Here is an advanced preview of my latest article "Darwin in a Download". I've submitted it to the Exeter Flying Post in the hopes that it will get into the March issue of the publication. Enjoy, and any comments appreciated!

Darwin in a Download
by J H Cooke

Social interaction specialists have often speculated that college life may emulate the Darwinian model of evolution. Indeed, at Exeter College, this certainly appears to be the case. The following extract clearly represents the interactions within the food chain in the Presentation Resources department…

A soft wiring sound erupts across the relative quiet of the room. Breaking the tentative cease-fire of electronic noises. A barrage of raucous laughter breaks out from a hidden corner, the result of some minor, insignificant misbehaviour. An expression of unintelligent delight at a trifling act of juvenile defiance. Fight the system, change the world and screw the bastard establishment. The battle cry of the lesser-spotted Juvinus Malicious, a small, snivelling creature, its only source of happiness coming from its attempts to gain relief from the futile carousel of repetitive actions.

I crouch lower behind my screen.
“Don’t look at me, don’t look at me”, I mutter the constant mantra of Homus Insignificas,
“I’m not here, I don’t exist…” Yeah, right “…honest”
I glance fitfully to my right.
“Wha’choo lookin’ aht?”
Fear grips my cold heart. A fully developed, bull Jerkus Populus advances towards me, jowls foaming in rage. I turn away, blind to my own fate.

So, are students really the next evolutionary generation, or just a sub-sect of the genus? Only time will tell.

Waiting, always bloody waiting...

http://www.alertnet.org/

My phone still hasn't arrived. Stupid bloody postal service. Stupid bloody ebay person!!!

Woe is me!!

How I hate the rain...

http://www.cnn.com/

Stupid typical seasonal weather. Is too wet to go skating and too wet to practice PK. Its bloody terrible!!!

Cordroy curtains

My funky new curtains, made out of a pair of purple cord trousers. Full picture here: http://photos3.flickr.com/3499689_80159f0c06_b.jpg

Mum's new stereo

My mum has scrapped her old stereo in favour of a funky new one. Its got a tiny little remote control, and a v. funky blue globe LCD!! Full size pic here: http://photos3.flickr.com/3499678_61e9208897_b.jpg

My photo gallery

You can now access all my pictures from here: http://flickr.com/photos/66607162@N00/

My little garden...

Since my room is a dingy little hole, I decided to add some colour and make an indoor garden curtesy of some little sticky things.

Parkour pics

You can now see the pics from the Exeter Parkour Jam that took place on Sunday the 16th of Jan. The gallery is here: http://flickr.com/photos/66607162@N00/sets/87591/

Hmm, new shoes!!

Picked up my 3rd pair of Merrell shoes in the sales. Merrell Amazon Ventilator. Not quite as nice as my other two, but pretty good at £34.99 down from £59.99.

Full size pic is here: http://photos2.flickr.com/3499681_df95b901c3_b.jpg

PK Jamming...

Had a very fun Parkour jam yesterday! There were about 12 of us, started from Exeter Central Library at 11:00 and went around Exeter until about 3:00, stopping at lots of hotspots, including:

* Central Library
* Exeter Pheonix
* Quay Carpark
* Exeter Quay
* "Blue Bars"
And several more that I don't know the names of...

The waiting game...

Oh woe is me, how I do hate to wait for packages. I'm still waiting for my new (old) phone to be delivered. I ordered it two days ago off eBay using 1st class recored and still nout!!

http://star-techcentral.com

Woe is me!

Saw Ellie off at the train station this morning. There is something so depressing about seeing people off on trains... :(

On the up side, the weather is getting better, so I can go and practice PK after my editorial meeting, and it'll hopefully be dry for the PK Jam on Sunday. 11 o'clock outside Exeter Central Library, come one, come all.

Parkour...

http://www.urbanfreeflow.co.uk

I've finally started to put some effort into doing something that I've been interested in for a long time. Many of you may have seen the two hugely popular shows on Le Parkour (or Free Running as it is also known), Jump London and Jump Britan, the former being shown last year and the latter, just last week.

Parkour is all about moving efficiently through urban enviroments in ways that aren't commonly explored. You can find out more about Parkour at Urban Freeflow, here: http://www.urbanfreeflow.co.uk/

Anyhoo, I've started training now, moving from skating style exercise to running and upper-body strengthening. I'm hoping to meet with a local Parkour group soon to pickup some tips.

Jerry

New photo gallery

I've just got a new photogallery at Fotoki.com. You can visit it by going to:

http://public.fotki.com/JezzyJex/

There aren't that many photos as of yet, but I hope to fill it up in the next few days.

Jerry

My New Toy

This is my lovelly new toy:

Its a Jornada 680 Handheld PC running WinCE 3.0 for H/PC Pro Edition. Its a few generations of tech old, but its still really handy, been using it in my lectures to take notes and what'not.

Cost me £98 on EBAY, but I had to sell my SPVe200 in order to afford it. Oh well, you know what they say, no pleasure without pain...

Jerry

First post...

Welcome on and all...

This is the first post on my new blog.

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jerry Cooke and I live in the South West of England. I'm currently 18 years old, and am studying at Exeter College. I'm a keen writer (am planning to study Journalism at Uni) and am currently Deputy Editor of the ECSU Magazine, Double Zero. I am an experienced skater, I've been skating since I was 5 1/2 and am currently ranked 4th Male Style Slalomer in the UK (after competing at the UK Style Slalom Championships in Eastbourne last July).

I've got a girlfriend called Ellie, who is one of the main driving forces in my life, and who is at Uni in Lancashire.

Okay, I think thats all the grounding required, I hope you enjoy reading this blog, I'll try and post as often as I can.

Jerry