Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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12:47 pm
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Why do people not see that I am intrinsically correct, and instead insist on exploring avenues that will inevitably lead to wasted time and in inferior final product? Haven't they realised that the effort they expend doing so is invariably wasted? I must be surrounded by idiots! Idiots who incorrectly spend ages asserting that they are correct. Or maybe I'm to blame - so addle-mouthed that the self-evidently correct turns to muddled musings of a madman. Alas.
current mood:  frustrated
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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7:58 pm
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The PDA seems to have died a death - at least Palm, the maker of mine for the last N generations seems to think so. Long live the new generation of smartphones, cunningly taking all the PDA functionality, but adding the ability to call people and connect to the interweb.
All well and good, but this leaves me in a bit of a muddle about which one to buy. Is particular, I don't like the habit of all these things attempting to constantly synchronise their data with the cloud, rather than being tethered conveniently to my computer where I can indoctrinate them into acting how *I* want them to act. They might learn bad habits, or something. *humph*
Currently vassilating between the iPhone 3GS, the Nexus One and procrastinating for another couple of months. My hope that writing these thoughts out would clear my mind and make it obvious what I should be going for has sadly not worked out, though. I think I should stick my contemplation back into my subconsciousness where it belongs. Or just choose one of them arbitrarily. Don't know :(
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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5:25 pm - Board Games Day - Saturday 16th January
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This post is to act as a brief reminder that my games day will take place next Saturday.
More importantly, following a deluge of people who, for one reason or another, did not believe 20th February is a good day to visit, I have moved the date for the next Board Games Day on a month, to the 20th March. Please update your diaries as necessary.
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
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9:52 pm - Board Games Day - Saturday 16th January
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A new decade has dawned! So to cheer people who may be feeling beginning-of-decade blues, I'm holding a board games[1] day on Saturday 16th January, with the cheering theme of gems.
The event is from middayish to late, in my house in Windsor[2]. You're welcome to arrive earlier or stay later if you give me some advanced warning[3] . Indeed, RSVPs in general are encouraged so I know whom to expect for catering purposes.
For those of you who plan further in advance, and so are unable to make this because of clashes, the next games event will be on the 20th FebruaryMarch. Put it your diary now ;).
[1] Such as Settlers, Carcassonne, Age of Steam, etc. If you don't possess many or indeed any such games, don't worry as I have a sizeable collection. Enough that I make up silly themes to guide choices, although people wishing to ignore the theme entirely are welcome to do so.
[2] Directions to my house available on request. Or, if you're feeling shy, in previous posts. Directions to Windsor available on any good UK map.
[3] You'll still be welcome without advanced notice, but you may find me a mite less prepared.
EDIT: Changed date of next games day to 20th March
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1:13 am
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I was idly wondering what to do with the evening, when I noticed that Braid - a 2D platformer with messing about with time mechanics which various people had spoken favourably about - was only £1.74 on Steam. In unrelated news, suddenly it's gone midnight.
T'was most excellent, in its nicely mind-pretzeling fashion.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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12:37 pm
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I was the Doctor! I defeated the master and disposed of the princes in the tower, boldly stated that I knew what was going on only to be surprised by my explanations a few paragraphs later. It was great fun.
(Although I'm still not quite exactly why I was talking to myself in the initial monologue)
But it was excellent. Yay! Thank you all who organised and partook. *bounces*
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
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7:37 am
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I had a really cool dream last night. The first section of the dream started getting interesting with the discovery that the next door neighbours dogs could talk, and climaxed in a kung-fu fight sequence with the five of them against an evil master-dog.
This dream turned out to be part of a book called 'fire'. I then dreamed the second book, called 'air', in which a number of animals and a boy with the ability to magically control rope break into a combination Zoo / museum / high security facility. Unfortunately, I didn't see much beyond the chase scene with the Minotaur and Minotauress, because I wanted to work out exactly how the beginning was put together, in which the animals snuck in disguised as a float of flowers.
If you're on the lookout for a dream, this series is recommended ;).
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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5:53 pm
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I don't usually repost links. For one thing, the people I repost them from usually will have got the majority of my readers. Nonetheless, I think that the following is worth breaking my prohibition on: Facts about Drugs.
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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5:20 pm
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My monitor has developed an intermittent cyan line across itself. I am not best pleased. I wonder what causes it.
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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8:13 pm
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If anyone discovers that they have one handy and don't know what to do with it, I'd love to have an invite for Google Wave. (He said, having missed a second person who was distributing them on LJ)
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7:49 pm
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When travelling abroad, the bit which I find most frustrating is waiting for the bus home from the airport. Having experienced the regimented efficiency of the train system abroad, and flown across the world (well, the channel) on silver wings, the wait for Schrödinger's bus is a highly irritating let-down.
Which is to say I'm safely back from Essen, with a small ton of games[1], distributed my prototypes to interested recipients[2], a somewhat higher sleep deficit than what I went out with and have generally hand a pretty good time.
I didn't find many spooky games for my games day, admittedly. I'm inclined to ditch the spooky theme and change it to 'things from Essen I want to bounce about'. It'll probably end up being the latter anyway ;)
Now all I need to do is to get my house into order with all the new stuff I've *ahem* discovered at Spiel. *bounce*.
[1] Over 20kgs, although this was probably skewed by the box of poker chips
[2] Or at least recipients who did a reasonable job of looking interested
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
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7:19 pm - Board Games Day - Sat 31st October - Spookiness
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To celebrate Halloween, my next board games day will be on Saturday 31st October. Admittedly, I don't have all that many spooky games, but my trip to Essen this coming weekend may sort that out somewhat (and there's always my prototype Zombie game, which I'll have completely revamped. Or rezombied. Braaaaiiiinnnnns!!!
The event is from middayish to late, in my house in Windsor[2]. You're welcome to arrive earlier or stay later if you give me some advanced warning[3] . Indeed, RSVPs in general are encouraged so I know whom to expect for catering purposes. This month I will be cooking something with paprika.
For those of you who plan further in advance, and so are unable to make this because of clashes, the next games event will be on the 16th January. Sorry for the long gap, but I suspect people will be having too much Christmas fun before that to make a games thing viable. Put it your diary now ;).
[1] Such as Settlers, Carcassonne, Age of Steam, etc. If you don't possess many or indeed any such games, don't worry as I have a sizeable collection. Enough that I make up silly themes to guide choices, although people wishing to ignore the theme entirely are welcome to do so.
[2] Directions to my house available on request. Or, if you're feeling shy, in previous posts. Directions to Windsor available on any good UK map.
[3] You'll still be welcome without advanced notice, but you may find me a mite less prepared.
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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1:35 pm
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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9:08 am
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My game 'Pirate' has turned a corner, and finally seems to be developping in the right direction. So much so that I'm trying to give some of the cards vaguely thematic names.
One particular series is a set of cards which I would like to be documents - "Declaration of War" and "The Black Spot" and "Trade Agreement" and the like. I can't think of enough appropriate nautical documents. Particularly not piratical ones, illiterate beings that they are. You can only go so far with variants on 'Treasure Map'...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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12:19 am
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Nice weekend so far. The excess of work stuff got mostly completed on Friday, ending the stressful week with too much to do. Thence on to playtesting, where Genial mostly worked - albeit subject to revisions, retheming and possibly a completely redefined scoring scheme. Saturday I got some exercise through the Black Park Time Trial - although I died at 2.75k in expected fashion due to running normal pace without allowing for last weekend's illness. I then went up to the Magic prerelease where I bumped into nice people, built an expectedly unexceptional deck and unexpectedly managed a really useful playtest of Pirate. Coming back home, I've been watching Police Story 2 while eating dried pineapple rings. And what's more, there's all of Sunday left :)
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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9:39 am
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The job which I've been running all over the bank holiday weekend up to now turns out to have a mistake which makes all the results useless.
current mood:  embarrassed
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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8:03 am - Sippets of thought
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- I've got a new icon which actually shows me. Not quite sure how much I like it, most likely due to generally not liking myself in photos. We'll see how it pans out.
- I think next weekend's game's day is going to end up being a relatively small one, but still viable. If you're planning on coming but haven't told me, I'd appreciate your doing so, so I can feel reassured. Or, indeed, if you're unsure about coming on not ;).
- Misery Bubblegum is *really* cute.
- I'm kind of floating between games designs at the moment, not feeling an urgent need to advance any of them. Feels a bit odd, to be honest.
- Am currently procrastinating about training for the Windsor half marathon. Why did I sign myself up for this?
- Sleepy
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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8:31 pm
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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5:16 pm
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Wow. Paprika and rosemary came a lot higher in my condiments poll than I was expecting. What on earth do you use them for? The uses I know are 'making things a bit spicy' for paprika, and 'stick onto lamb' for rosemary, but that doesn't really seem sufficient to make them essential desert island foodstuffs.
Lime was also a bit unexpectedly high. Were you treating it as lime-the-green-round-fruit or lime-the-leaves. I've never used the latter - maybe I should.
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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8:09 pm - Desert Island Spices
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Poll #1445550 Desert Island Spices
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32If I was going to a desert island, and could only take ten condiments with me, I would take... ...
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