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I feel obliged to note that Volity continues to chug away even as I've spent the days since the Javolin release doing little more than clawing at the walls, with occasional breaks to write another ingenious post like this one. This is largely zarf's doing, with a bunch of other people supporting; I've been following the mailing list through my mental haze, and nodding with groggy approval.

A little nervous that Z mentioned Javolin it on his own website, which has a lot of readers, and I've already seen the effects of this. But this is a good thing, right? And I have the power to one-up him via my O'Reilly Network blog, assuming they haven't kicked me off for lack of use. Erf, I should really check, someday. I have things to post there that aren't even Volity-related, if you can believe it.

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I just semi-napped for a couple of hours. Got close enough to sleep to have a dream that daerr asked to be let off the project. Which you'd know is kind of silly, if you know what I know. Unless I don't know what someone else knows I don't know...

Wide awake and still headachey, eatin Excederins like they was candy, num num. If still awake come start of business, will saddle up and go lookin' for a copy of Meteos for the DS. mrmorse, who is more or less my sole source of fresh video game news, tells me that people are ga-ga for it. A little earlier I was watching TV while poking resignedly at Wario Ware: Touched (slaving my way through dozens of too-easy microgames towards the final unlock) when I realized that hells yeah I'd love a bona fide puzzle game.

The DS is, to my eye, the perfect system for fiddly-toy games like this, especially with its fast sleep/wake ability. Whenever the distraction ya-yas start nibbling at you, you can flip the DS open, immediately pound buttons for 34 and a half seconds, and then snap it shut again to return to your work (or, just as often in my case, pop up one level in the distraction-stack, ha ha).

Perversely, thinking fondly of the DS in these terms makes me want to see Volity on it even more. I look forward to the day when the DS hacker community succeeds in implementing TCP/IP on the sucker, and then I can start dropping suggestions that someone oughtta implement Jabber and SVG on it, and of course Volity will be big*big news among game hackers by then, so...

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Wide awake and still headachey, eatin Excederins like they was candy, num num.

Excedrins have caffeine in them; they might be part of the cause of "wide awake".