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More dumpage
Jul. 18th, 2007 11:18 amPicked out new glasses yesterday. My insurance gave me a good discount, so I opted for an expensive and tiny pair of jet-black titanium wire-frames. When we went last week ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dictator555 had me right on the verge of picking up a phat black geek-chic number, but a chorus of alternate fashion consultants I had since sought drowned her out. (This started when the dictator took a cellphone picture of me with the phat frames in the opt shop and sent it to classicaljunkie, who then called me from the airplane to ask if it was a joke.)
Onrikchik's advice I also visited the local Brooks' crafts aisle to buy 100 leetle zip-lock bags for a dollar and change, perfect for storing loose game bits. I immediately deployed a couple dozen to reorganize my BattleLore legions, storing between one and three complete multi-figure units in each baggie (one unit type per bag), and then dumping all of them back into the box. With those ridiculous plastic trays out of the way, the box now closes completely. Whee
Almost definitely not going to Gen Con, since I just missed the pre-reg window, making securing hotel space much harder and more expensive. It's too bad, because it didn't occur to me until way late to ask gamer-fiendclassicaljunkie if she might want to go, and when she said yes, my answer is like "Well... ya can't." Feh.
Still, my mumbling about weird timing WRT the web client is still all true. When it's in beta you better bloody well believe I'll be tromping all over the convention circuit, OK?
Last night's HoRGN was fun, though the only game I played was Toppo (which I won once, woo). Delighted to meetjaq, who has just relocated from way out yonder to the Boston area.
Also got to play with an iPhone, and was excited to see that its version of Safari can run the DHTML Testbench demo just fine (I didn't think to check out the SVG version thatdaerr just posted, though). The iPhone will surely be my next phone, but I cannot say when that will be. Almost certainly not the device's first generation.
dictator555 had me right on the verge of picking up a phat black geek-chic number, but a chorus of alternate fashion consultants I had since sought drowned her out. (This started when the dictator took a cellphone picture of me with the phat frames in the opt shop and sent it to classicaljunkie, who then called me from the airplane to ask if it was a joke.)On
rikchik's advice I also visited the local Brooks' crafts aisle to buy 100 leetle zip-lock bags for a dollar and change, perfect for storing loose game bits. I immediately deployed a couple dozen to reorganize my BattleLore legions, storing between one and three complete multi-figure units in each baggie (one unit type per bag), and then dumping all of them back into the box. With those ridiculous plastic trays out of the way, the box now closes completely. WheeAlmost definitely not going to Gen Con, since I just missed the pre-reg window, making securing hotel space much harder and more expensive. It's too bad, because it didn't occur to me until way late to ask gamer-fiend
classicaljunkie if she might want to go, and when she said yes, my answer is like "Well... ya can't." Feh.Still, my mumbling about weird timing WRT the web client is still all true. When it's in beta you better bloody well believe I'll be tromping all over the convention circuit, OK?
Last night's HoRGN was fun, though the only game I played was Toppo (which I won once, woo). Delighted to meet
jaq, who has just relocated from way out yonder to the Boston area. Also got to play with an iPhone, and was excited to see that its version of Safari can run the DHTML Testbench demo just fine (I didn't think to check out the SVG version that
daerr just posted, though). The iPhone will surely be my next phone, but I cannot say when that will be. Almost certainly not the device's first generation.Some of last week
Jul. 10th, 2007 12:47 amWell, I had some half-written blog posts but then my lappie had its weekly kernel panic and away they went. So here is the start of recollection in random order.
Friday I went to the eye doctor. It didn't go well; the first eye drops he applied made me flip out at the reptile-brain level; all my blood drained away and I started to sweat awful and I asked for a breather. Without breaking stride the doctor had me recline and applied cold compresses and gave me hard candy to suck on for blood sugar until I felt better. Then he did the rest of the exam without benefit of further drops. I felt really foolish, but he said that he had one patient fall apart like that every week or so. I'm special.
Anyway, I have a glasses prescription now, and it's not far from the one that was last ground out for me in 2001. I don't trust my own judgement in getting new frames, anddictator555 also needs a new pair, so we're going to visit the optical shop later this week together. That should be all right.
Tuesdaycthulhia and I saw Brand Upon the Brain! by Guy Maddin. I am glad I saw it but I do not generally recommend it. It's got moments, and at least one element of its narrative found strong resonance with me, but it suffers from odd and slow pacing, making its exploration of squirmy sexual themes even harder to watch. If I understand correctly it was originally presented not as a feature but a twelve-part art installation, so there you go.
Played games over the weekend. Investigated Here I Stand, spending two or three hours to suss out the rules enough to play through one game turn. Determined that it's really only playable if you really really want to play it, and plan to spend much of one day at it.
There are many games like this, but I do not play them. I bought it mostly because the game board has a Henry's Wives Pregancy Chart on it (roll 1d6 and see what you get this time!). The game is so serious about its role as simulation that it makes no attempt to be elegant; there are many rules that apply only to certain players, or that come into effect only if one player does a certain action upon another specific player, or only on certain game turns. For example, the Ottoman player successfully besieged a Hungarian city, and this caused a one-time rule to come into effect which specifically gave all the other Hungarian cities to the Hapsburg player. That's just how the game is.
I'm not ready to sell it just yet. I think I still want to try actually playing it!
Also won a four-player game of Blokus for the first time, and fooledtahnan twice with my bogus definitions during a game of Dictionary, which is a kind of victory in itself.
Friday I went to the eye doctor. It didn't go well; the first eye drops he applied made me flip out at the reptile-brain level; all my blood drained away and I started to sweat awful and I asked for a breather. Without breaking stride the doctor had me recline and applied cold compresses and gave me hard candy to suck on for blood sugar until I felt better. Then he did the rest of the exam without benefit of further drops. I felt really foolish, but he said that he had one patient fall apart like that every week or so. I'm special.
Anyway, I have a glasses prescription now, and it's not far from the one that was last ground out for me in 2001. I don't trust my own judgement in getting new frames, and
dictator555 also needs a new pair, so we're going to visit the optical shop later this week together. That should be all right.Tuesday
cthulhia and I saw Brand Upon the Brain! by Guy Maddin. I am glad I saw it but I do not generally recommend it. It's got moments, and at least one element of its narrative found strong resonance with me, but it suffers from odd and slow pacing, making its exploration of squirmy sexual themes even harder to watch. If I understand correctly it was originally presented not as a feature but a twelve-part art installation, so there you go.Played games over the weekend. Investigated Here I Stand, spending two or three hours to suss out the rules enough to play through one game turn. Determined that it's really only playable if you really really want to play it, and plan to spend much of one day at it.
There are many games like this, but I do not play them. I bought it mostly because the game board has a Henry's Wives Pregancy Chart on it (roll 1d6 and see what you get this time!). The game is so serious about its role as simulation that it makes no attempt to be elegant; there are many rules that apply only to certain players, or that come into effect only if one player does a certain action upon another specific player, or only on certain game turns. For example, the Ottoman player successfully besieged a Hungarian city, and this caused a one-time rule to come into effect which specifically gave all the other Hungarian cities to the Hapsburg player. That's just how the game is.
I'm not ready to sell it just yet. I think I still want to try actually playing it!
Also won a four-player game of Blokus for the first time, and fooled
tahnan twice with my bogus definitions during a game of Dictionary, which is a kind of victory in itself.
