Ahh… Sunday afternoon. A time to rest. Relax. Have a leisurely brunch with loved ones. Go to Book Club.
OR, you can wake up at 8am and drag your ass into work!!! Awesome. Work is what *I* chose to do this morning. And by chose, I mean had to. Event planning is FUN!
*sigh* At least Saturday was good times. Baked extremely fatty lard-filled mincemeat tarts with Mum, slept on the sofa with Mum’s cat, shopped, wrapped gifts, ate curry. Good times.
And another tidbit of news that really ONLY matters to me: I achieved a great triumph in the world of videogaming today. On the sleepy bus ride downtown, I decided to have yet another crack at level 4 “Marching Mildred’s Fort” of world 4 in “Yoshi’s Island” for the GBA. Now, I love me some Yoshi, but I have been mired in this bloody level for months upon months now, and I was so incredibly sick of playing through the three chambers to get my three stinking keys, only to continually die in the pit of lava before acquiring the fourth and final key that it completely sapped all joy from the game and gave a hefty beating to my sense of self-worth. But not today! Today I TOOK MILDRED DOWN. Suck it, Mildred. I’m moving on to level five. Woot!
Yeah, walk it to that fucking Mildred. Right on! ..if I had a GBA, I would never get anything done…
-caellum
My goodness – quoting from The Big Lebowski yesterday, revving up my GameBoy addiction today… I’m beginning to think you’re a bigger fan of sloth and frivolous time-wasting than I previously imagined.
I had you pegged as this stalwart academic, ploughing through thick texts, performing obscure biological experiments, ardently photographing the local landscape and occasionally besmirching it with adhesive graffiti, such as whatever object you finally decided to stick to the ceiling of your classroom (what *did* you choose, anyhow?)
And here you are, thwarting my nicely crafted expectations. Vive la videogaming!
I decided on a monkey, a red monkey from a barrel. I will post photos at the appropruiate time. We actually have one more class in that room, so I will glue it up there before the end of february.
I am a stalwart academic, but I am getting a bit tired of that for the moment, though my new lab rocks. Rotating through labs* is getting irritating, I just want to start my thesis research. I did find some interesting graffiti yesterday. Interesting to me, anyway. And I have a serious game addiction, of late to the series of sequels to the game ‘Myst’. My brain feeds on puzzles.
-caellum
*We have to rotate through 3-4 labs in the first year, then pick one for our thesis
O Caellum – you’re not like thee others, you like the same theengs I do – wax paper, thee boiled football leather – DOG BREATH!
Not surpising, really.
Have you checked out “Syberia”, or “Syberia 2”? Available on many platforms, but the all-knowing GameRankings.com says that the PC version is best.
http://www.adventurecompanygames.com/tac/syberia/
And possibly (although they are ancient and may not be available anymore), “The 7th Guest” and “The Eleventh Hour”. They are PC games from the early 90s; slightly gruesome and spooky, but good puzzles and decent graphics (for the mid-nineties, that is).
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,283/
Syberia looks interesting, though they dont prvide too many details on the story line from the site. Have to investigate further, later, as this academician has a monstrous 9 hr exam on friday that will sap my time for the next week.
I beat the Eleventh Hour in 1997. That was a goddam hard game. I just finished Myst IV – Uru, and I am going to go back and pick up Myst – Exile, which I skipped, and the Uru Expansion Sets. I am a dork, <3.
-caellum
Ooh, ooh! AND, the wonderful ongoing puzzle for people such as myself who have a “thing” for lego and MacGyver, “The Incredible Machine” and it’s many sequels.
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/367120.asp?q=incredible%20machine
This is silly. I’m sure you were into everything Sierra Games did in the mid-nineties and I’m just telling you things you already know. I mean, I might as well have listed Carmen Sandiego, for goodness’ sake! I need to stop being so old school.