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Five Gifts

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

I received a great many gifts for my birthday. Too many! Here’s five of them, from five different people.

From JAF I received this stunning Lego kit (reviewed as one of the best Technic kits ever made):

From SFL I received a very clever Star Wars t-shirt (can you get the joke?):

From myself I received Heuvelman’s legendary opus from 1965 on sea monsters:

From JBF I received a Kuroneko Figma:

And from KLS I received an unopened box of trading cards. Note the warning on the bottom:

I’ll update to include BFS’s gift when it arrives 😉

Posted in Books & Comics, Family, Miscellaneous, Otaku, Tech, Toys | 3 Comments »

The Snow Train

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Today, to celebrate my birthday, we’re going on the ‘Snow Train’ up to Gore Moutain.

Here’s a photo of me sitting in our first class ‘dome car’ waiting for the trip to start:

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Grid runner

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

The new Llamasoft iOS game is out, and what did Mr Minter bring us this time?

He wrote a blog post about how easy it was to port the game to iOS using (IIRC) some old ST code. Since it was so quick and easy, and the release is so close after Caverns of Minos, the sheer brilliance of this game was unexpected. It’s a major update of the game that made him famous 30 years ago.

His iOS games always have a hardware theme, and until now he’s done 2600, Intellivision, Vic 20 etc. Gridrunner is ‘1980’s arcade game’, and he’s absolutely nailed it, since the graphics bring to mind a classic such as Galaxian. Of course only in spirit, since I doubt this madness was possible in those old arcade boards:

This game is only $0.99, and it’s close to perfect tablet gaming. Absolutely gets my highest recommendation, and if your initials are AW and you don’t have an iOS device games like this is why you should get one ASAP 🙂

Oh yes… It has the Vic 20 and C64 versions included (rotate the device to landscape):

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Type 40?

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Here’s a photo of me holding something I got for Christmas from SFL:

It’s a light up Tardis soap! Who made it? Where did she get it? Who knows! It’s small but very detailed. Here’s a close up:

It came in a pack of two with a Dalek (that doesn’t light up any more). An unusual but very cool gift.

Sooo, it must be used! And I’m posting about it today since tomorrow I shall start using it in the shower.

You could almost say that tomorrow this Tardis soap will… dematerialize 😉

Posted in Family, Otaku, Tech, The Unknown | 3 Comments »

Happy Birthday Momomo

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

It’s my birthday soon, so I thought it nice to treat my WoW avatar, Momomo, to a gift as well. Therefore I purchased for her the horribly overpriced but very, very pretty new Heart Of The Aspects cash-store mount for World of Warcraft.

It’s a glowy, amazingly animated golden dragon thing. Here’s a shot:

A pretty girl on a pretty dragon 🙂

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