“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
We were both sick this past week, each of us taking some days off work and generally being congested and tired and headachey for several days. We’re mostly better now, but this cold is indeed a persistent one.
Not much else to tell, so I’ll add a few shots of Heroscape, which we have been playing again recently. You can see the new snow expansion in these images.
I wish I could update this more frequently, since I really got into it for a while. But I just have so much less time now.
My days are about half filled with working on the course I am TA’ing (TA = Teaching Assistant). Which means testing the labs (circuit design and operation), doing the homework and labs, preparing downloadable solutions for the website and doing the grading. The rest of the time I am preparing my oral exam (topic: Patterson Methods) which has a tentative date of October 19.
Our Holly is in fruit, which is the first time I remember since we bought the house:
< Holly
Just now as I was taking these photos our front garden was overrun with a plague of flying ant-like insects. There were so many we could see them eating the leaves away on one of our plants. We blasted them with evil toxins from a can (which I didn’t enjoy doing, because I expect the collateral damage to spiders and the like was high).
KLS got an early birthday present today – a ‘Rose Coral’ DS Lite:
Which is timely, since she only just started playing her new favourite game, Cooking Mama! This is a game in which you cook (mostly Japanese) food by completing various minigames (such as cutting vegetables or measuring rice). She enjoys it a great deal and has been playing it constantly since I bought it for her. Since it’s a mere $20 here in the States, if you have a DS you may want to pick it up.
I just told her I blogged Cooking Mama, which she is playing as I type, and she said she was just ‘making a spring roll’. She was at the stage where she was ‘ripping the heads off the shrimps’ 🙂
Nintendo finally announced the street date (November 19) and price ($250) of the Wii this past week. I’ll be there launch day to buy one (and Zelda, and an additional controller). The idea of a pack-in-game (Wii Sports) is a great one, and I think it will be very successful for them. Not that they were going to have any trouble selling the Wii in the first place…
I have a mail folder named ‘saved’ into which I dump all sorts of random emails, and have been doing so for about 7 years. I was cleaning it out today and found this beauty, which I sent to several recipients about 5 years ago:
The best line, IMHO, is the second last one (where I project how long it may take me to code).
And even though I titled this entry Vaporware the product most certainly came to fruition. It would ultimately be called Mercenary King Infinity and retained all the features mentioned in this email. Of course it took me several months to complete.
Mmmm…I wish I knew someone who could write a robust roguelike game engine to which I could tether my robust roguelike gameplay ideas 🙂