Games

I finally finished Emily Short's Bronze. It took me several hours, spread over a few weekends. It is good; you should play it. Fans of fairy-tale reconstructions may especially like it, and IF newbies may also like it since it has a tutorial mode and a hint system, but I did not use these so I cannot speak for them. The manual is very nice, though.

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J lent me Trauma Center: Under the Knife for DS tonight. I played it a little after finishing that last angel application. It's quite clever: an updated version of the old Mac game Life and Death (iirc), where you use the stylus as a variety of medical tools to deprive people of their tumors and polyps and so on in a semi-realistic OR setting.

Unfortunately, one of the tools (the magnifier) didn't really work as advertised; worse, it worked about 10 percent of the time, and the rest of the time only made a rude farty noise while the patient's vitals dropped and I cussed out the cute little doe-eyed anime nurse scowling at me. Probably I'm using it wrong and there's something in GameFAQs about it, but it's really too bad that all the hardcore slicey-sewey tools were easy to figure out but a stupid magnifying glass tripped me up because they had to get cute with the interface.

Fishin'

One of the angel groups I threw an unsolicited pitch at last week has set up an informal meeting with us this Thursday. This is in addition to the semi-solicited meeting with a VC person that we already have scheduled a couple of weeks out.

Woo woo. Wish us luck.

(Also another angelic representative, from River Valley Investors, sent me a rejection letter with a reason for rejection and some relevant advice in it, directly refuting a statement I blogged yesterday about how most capital groups reject applicants. I wrote him a nice-thank you note acknowledging this rare kindness, and he wrote me a you're-welcome note. So there you go.)

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Are those anti-environmental ads for real, or a parody that lost its attribution and got out of hand? I listened to one on a podcast while in line at the post office today and made noises. They imply that environmentalists are against all CO2 emissions and therefore wish to make breathing illegal. Especially children's breathing. (Too bad for them that fetuses don't breathe or they'd able to swing some sweet cross-base message there.)