We just had an earthquake. Not a damaging one, but enough to shake the room, rattle blinds, knock [precariously placed] stuff off shelves, etc. It certainly gets the heart going a bit, though… now I get to sit here and wonder if that was just the precursor to something bigger, or not… And already there’s… Read more
I tried to think up a good title for this, but “Total Annihilation” is just so freakin’ cool anyway. :D It arrived today, my TA Gold boxed kit. Better late than never, right? :) There’s a few glitches running it in Classic, but luckily none that interfere with the gameplay once you get into it.… Read more
I bought a big bag of potatoes around about the first week I was here. I happened to look at them the other day, and discovered they’d developed tentacles and were escaping from the bag. Apparently potatoes, despite having a reputation for being sedentary and impassive, are actually physical conduits into this world for Cthulhu.… Read more
I didn’t get up to much today, in terms of exciting, extraordinary events. Mostly I was working on the Keychain framework… there were mostly-brief periods of Halo & Starcraft, but I was coding mostly, honest.. ;) By dinner time I’d had enough of Xcode for one day, so I nipped off to see Resident Evil… Read more
I tells ya, it’s a harsh world – several weekends with nothing much happening, and then I run into Gus at work and realise he’s not in France like I’d thought, and now he’s doing the movie thing tomorrow night (Resident Evil 3, which despite all logic I want to see :D ) and yet… Read more
Now why is it we never had subjects like this? Granted U.S. universities work quite differently and you typically only do two or three subjects concurrently, as opposed to half a dozen or more in Australia, but still… I expect Rob will be especially envious, since the winners were given Fluke DMMs. :P The actual… Read more