Category: Miscellaneous

About…23 days ago I sat down at 4pm and switched on BBC America and watched the first episode of the legendary TV series The Prisoner. Yesterday I watched the final (17th) episode, and I did not miss one during the entire run (and I never even taped it, I watched it all live).

Holy Cow what a good series that one was! I had never watched it in it’s entirety – indeed I can only recall seeing an episode or two during my youth. So it was an unexpected treat to be able to see it and finally realise what all the fuss is about.

The wikipedia entry reveals that the fervour over the series is as strong as ever, even to the point of it being remade for US television (to be screened January 2008) and that a movie is planned as well. Interesting…

I just discovered that a good chunk of Waikiki is in 3D in Google Earth. For instance, go to the hotel we will be staying in at Latitude 21°16’38.04″N, Longitude 157°49’44.51″W and turn on 3D buildings. It’s very impressive!

Furthermore, it’s exciting to see how close to the beach the hotel is 🙂

Unfortunately much of the rest of Hawaii is still very low res in Google Earth. Probably because the islands are so remote and out of the way for the satellites. The 3D buildings and extremely high-res aspects of Waikiki are so impressive I suspect the city was scanned by aircraft as opposed to satellites.

Completely switching topics now, if you have a DS (or PSP, but buy the DS version over the PSP version) you should go and buy Puzzle Quest. It’s an RPG-puzzle hybrid that uses the game bejwelled as the ‘combat system’ and is not only lots of fun, but very, very addictive. Furthermore it’s made by the guys that made the Warlords games way back when, and the RPG and strategy aspects of Puzzle Quest are solid as a result.

There is a PC demo available, but seriously if you have the handheld just take my word for it and go buy this fabulous game.

…you may not have heard of the upcoming Star Wars stamp and the promotional R2-D2 mailbox.

I’m looking forward to sending all my Hawaii postcards with Star Wars stamps!

In unrelated news we had a brief but intense snow storm this past Friday/Saturday which dumped about 20 inches of very dense, heavy snow on our fair city. For the first time, KLS and I had to admit we were beaten – shovelling would have taken many, many hours and been extremely strenuous. Furthermore, the snow wall at the end of the driveway from the plough pushing all the snow to the edge was waist deep…

Luckily our across the road neighbour lent us his monstrous snowthrower and I was able to clear the driveway in only an hour. Thanks neighbour!

Kristin is baking cookies for them as a ‘thank you’ as I type 🙂