Ever played this game?
Here’s a video of dad playing:
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Dad Playing QWOP
Monday, January 9th, 2012The Silent Hand
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012There’s been a lot of this going on here in Newcastle:
The other night we (in other words, me) decided we’d play a silent hand. Here it is:
And, as a bonus video, here’s me at the San Jose science museum about 5 or 6 years ago:
Quite talented, aren’t I?
Crazy Days
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012It’s madness here! They’ve got me performing like an ape:
Although the photo may suggest that my 6-day (so far) long binge of garbage food and nonstop candy may have distended my belly to hitherto unseen levels, I can assure you I haven’t expanded that much, and it’s actually an optical illusion.
Speaking of garbage food, I forgot to reveal what I had for lunch yesterday at the rest stop on the way back from Sydney (Bernard rented a car and we drove):
Yep, that’s a god-damn Pluto Pup! Delicious!
Anyway we arrived yesterday and had a delayed Christmas. Here’s a snap of the giftees receiving their gifts:
And here’s another snap of the giftees checking out their other new gift:
Yep, that’s an iPad. Mum and Dad now have their very own 🙂
So, so, so, so, so. Here’s what today looked like:
If it looks hot, then that’s because it is. All those reports of Australia having unseasonable cold and lots of rain? Damn lies, the lot of them! It’s hot and humid and frankly brutal, but I don’t care 🙂
Here’s a couple of random food shots:
Donut King on the left (don’t think USA donuts; think USA fried dough), Ham and Pineapple ‘pizza’ on the right (actually a flat piece of bread with cheese and ham and pineapple on it sold by a baker).
And here is Bernard shooting a mountain goat:
He was actually very good at it, and at the end of his second game was the new Hunting Hero for the ‘moose’ level. He downed five of them in one round!
And…… then he went and won another $60 (on a $20 bet) on a poker machine 🙂
Tomorrow I’m going to kill myself (and SMC!) with a 32+ km walk in very hot weather. Look forward to the details!
Friday Night Lights
Friday, December 30th, 2011
The above were taken at Bondi Junction mall. They are representative of the sort of sights seen in bakery cases everywhere down here.
I had walked to the mall in the AM for a bit of a trot and to have a looksee. Here’s what I found:
Yes yes, I know – enough with the Oporto already! Point taken 🙂
In the afternoon we headed to ‘the cricket’, specifically a 20/20 game between the Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Renegades. We got there shortly before the start at 7pm, and the sun was relentlessly shining down onto our seats. It was quite brutal. But our seats were very good with a spectacular view.
The game was at the ANZ stadium at Olympic park, which is where the athletic events for the Sydney olympics was held.
I enjoyed a delicious $15 meal of chips, sausage roll and a Lift. I washed it down with this guy, priced at a reasonable $4.60:
A Magnum. It was delicious. I’ll have to try some other flavours before I leave.
Eventually the lights went out and we watched Melbourne beat Sydney in a close game that went to the last ball. This was an upset and there was lamentation amongst my fellows. Or not, especially since Bernard had placed a bet on Melbourne winning and won $8.60 🙂
All in all, a fun night!
…oh, and here’s yesterdays TSV on TVSN (this is for KLS to have a laugh!):
Fishing Season
Thursday, December 29th, 2011Yesterday morning I woke up with a bit of acid reflux. I figured it was probably the double-fillet Otropo burger and chips I’d had for lunch. Or perhaps the 2.4 L of Lift. Or maybe the half a bag of licorice bullets, or half a pack of cheese and onion chips. Or Chokito bar, 2.5 fish cocktails and 2 potato scallops I’d had for dinner or maybe the 6 small cherry ripe bars. It must have been one of these.
Anyway the basic cure for reflux – exercise – worked well, and after a brief trot around Centennial park I felt much better. On the way I saw this guy:
Yes yes, I know – always with the spider photos! He’s a classic orb weaver, about 6cm in length from leg tip to tip. He says “Hello!”
Pat arrived late morning, and we set off to the city for a looksee. A couple of items I saw when I looked:
Christmas Rilakkuma says “Hello!” as well 🙂
After some trotting around we ended up near the UFO catchers. Pat & Adam settled in at a pub downstairs to watch the cricket while Bernard and I tried our luck. I was not lucky; he was. Here’s some proof:
Amazingly, this was not his only prize! The other was bigger and greener. I’ll post a shot at some point.
After this I went trotting around again (to look – unsuccessfully – for new and original postcards and to get some cash) while the others watched cricket in the pub. During this trot Bernard’s luck continued as he won $200 on a poker machine!
And then, when the cricket was done, we discovered ‘Fishing Season’.
As you can see, it’s a tabletop arcade game with multiplay where the players shoot nets at fish to catch them. It’s token based, so you have to buy tokens and feed them in to play with, and as you catch fish the game shoots out tokens as prizes. Since there was no way to redeem the tokens, we just fed them back into the machine to keep playing.
For three hours!
Yes my friends. The four of us, on a $20 investment, sat there and played Fishing Season for three whole hours! How’s that for value for money? At one point we were up to nearly three times our original number of tokens, and I reckon we could have played for much longer had we not, at one point, just started ‘rapid firing’ nets just to burn through our credits.
And then, in the evening, there was four player Magic and K-Pop till midnight 🙂