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Games and writing and unemployment and the use of too many "and"s
Count em - eight nudges. All from the same person (and it's not like you've been posting like crazy, person who shall remain anonymous ( Read more... ) -
Nah nah-nah nah nah-nah THUNDER!
There was a storm last night. One crack of thunder was so loud it shook the house - I sat upright in bed and had a moment wondering if an explosion had gone off or something ("OMG, the Americans are coming, the Americans are coming ( Read more... ) -
I bruise easily
I'm tired and not entirely in a writing mood, but the threat of being nudged soon is just too great to ignore ( Read more... ) -
Jiminy Jellicers!
I've been feeling a bit listless. I (finally) finished Okami today. Hopefully by tomorrow a review will be ready to splurge itself onto my keyboard, but at the moment all I'm getting is "it's a lot like a Zelda game... with drawing instead of music and items ( Read more... ) -
How come I've never noticed before?
Last night, laying in bed, I saw that the corner of my neighbours roof was projecting a perfect sillhouette onto my curtain. Probably wouldn't have noticed except the profile of a cat was added to it. Sorta eerily amusing moment.
PS: Canada is what happens when Love, falls in love. -
Peripherals and books
The new keyboard is nice, but sometimes I occasionally put my right hand on the keys left of the ones I'm going for. It's the ergonomics of it... curved, and the keys in the middle take up slightly more realestate, which I guess makes sense given the few HCI principles I've learnt. The mouse (or rather the software that came with it) has a ( Read more... ) -
Addicted to Crackdown
Tired. Milled around for a few days, then went back up - to Orewa, drove in to meet Tolan (aka Kumara Kid, Xbox New Zealand) to get him to buy me lunch and give me payment for the window gig ( Read more... ) -
Life On The Other Side Of The Window
So I'm back. Sitting in a shop window playing videogames for 11 hours a day. Pretty crazy. People were taking pictures quite often, tourists with cameras, locals with their fancy cellphones. I got a lot of "I like your job" etc, as if I was some sort of professional window dressing. One dude came up and asked career advice, inquiring as to how he ( Read more... ) -
Back to the Chickencoop
Well, I'll be off to Auckland soon for this "sitting in a window playing games" gig. Will be staying at Aarons, so I'll get to see the tiny-cute-old-sad grimalkin of his again. Likelihood of posting for a week: slim ( Read more... ) -
Under the Wagon
Whoops. Didn't post yesterday. That's how relapses happen ( Read more... )