In about 10 minutes, I go into my
Hardware
test. It’s been kind of quiet lately because I’ve been studying for it.
I am optimistic!
Monthly Archive for July, 2003
Braben describes the plot to Daily Game:
The game starts off with Wallace and Gromit discovering that their nemesis, Feathers the Penguin, is running his criminal empire from within the confines of the West Wallaby zoo. Feathers has imprisoned all of the baby animals and is forcing their parents to manufacture diamonds for him. And so Wallace and Gromit must save the animals from a life of crime and foil Feathers’ dastardly plan, using a giant ‘Trojan Penguin’.
Me, I don’t see how this game could possibly fail. Animal conflict diamonds? A Trojan Penguin? Sign me up.
Metrolike is a new project, taking the RSS feed from a popular Community Weblog
and filtering out the posts to news articles, hopefully refocusing it — from a
race to be the first to post the latest Iraq news, to a celebration of interesting
things on the web, if there’s anything left. Do please
visit,
compare, and offer
me suggestions as appropriate. Thanks!
The wife and I just joined a super-luxe gym near our new digs and decided to try it out together on Saturday night. We got there about nine-thirty, got lockers, and went up to the weight and cardio training room. There were maybe ten other people in there. Not only did we have our pick of machines, but we had our pick of machines close together.
After we got in about 20 minutes on cardio [we tried out some weird new elliipticals and treadmills], we went over to the weight-training machines and I reacquainted myself with that whole scene. All the guys on the weight machines were super-buff, but I figured if they were there on a Saturday night they were hardcore and wouldn’t care if Pasty McPortly was taking up space next to them, and I was right].
When I started to get past “ooh, I can feel it working” sore and into “ow, this really hurts” sore, we quit the weight training and went down to the pool. After some initial disappointment that the elastic in my favorite swimsuit is officially dead, I tied the drawstring up real tight and hit the beach. OK, not really a beach, but a terrific grade on the shallow end of the indoor pool that starts out at deck level and eventually gets about five feet deep. The water temperature was perfect. We did some stretching, then hit the dry sauna for ten minutes.
Finally, we capped off the evening with a soak in the huge hot tub, which we had all to ourselves.
We’re going tomorrow during daytime hours — although I expect it to be much more busy, I look forward to trying out the water slide!
Via Game Girl Advance comes this game price tracker, an idea whose time has come. Previously, DVD prices have been tracked in this fashion, and game prices have been tracked in a much lower-tech manner, but this is the first site I’ve seen to use databases and stuff for this sort of thing and just be dedicated to games. Sweeeeeet!
Home of the Official Eminem vs. Dr. Dre QuakeIII Arena skin, <"http://www.badmeat.com/downloads.shtml">among many others.
Gamboling about the Wayne County Airport Authority site, I happened across this job posting. Seems a little outside my realm of experience.
The radio silence over the past couple of days is attributable to visiting friends, the job hunt, and a little project I was cobbling together. It’s the feed from MetaFilter with all the links to news sites removed, which makes it a good deal more manageable. I call it Metrolike.
I maintain that anyone who gets their news from MetaFilter needs to step into the sunlight, read a pretty girl, and ask a book out on a date.
Mr. Lams gave a little tribute to Michael Jeter last night. I was lucky enough to catch Welcome to Collinwood the other night, which stars Michael Jeter as part of a gang of penny-ante crooks executing a jewelry-store heist in an area termed “The Beirut of Cleveland.” [The above-linked Soderbergh site has photos, but the link on the first page incorrectly points to another page. Fortunately, it was easy to deduce the correct link to a photos page.]
Collinwood came out after Soderbergh’s own “Ocean’s Eleven,” and compared to Ocean’s gang the crooks come out more like “Tributary’s Five-and-a-Half” [ba-da-ksssh]. That doesn’t make this film any less entertaining — to me, anyway. Much was made of George Clooney’s role in the ads — I enjoyed him a lot in the movie, but he’s not featured throughout the entire film. I don’t generally give movies star ratings, because that would involve establishing a high and low and that would take thought, but Ebert gave it two-and-a-half [mild spoilers].
