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thoughts on the news
Obviously very pleased with the result and thought Obama gave a great speech. The days leading up to the election were getting me a little anxious! He's a good talker but he has a heck of a lot of work ahead. It seems his approval can only go down from here. While inspirational speeches are charming it'll be more interesting to see how he handles ( Read more... ) -
Mozy
Hello chaps and chapettes. My favourite online backup provider, Mozy, is running a promo right now where if you sign up for a free account with my referral code you get an extra 512MB of storage. I've been very pleased with the software so far - it keeps out of the way and gives me the peace of mind that my important stuff is stored away somewhere ( Read more... ) -
Climbing!
I went to the new climbing gym near work for the first time to learn how to rock climb! I have liked the idea of rock climbing for a long time and I finally got my act together and brought in a change of clothes. I climbed the shit up some walls and it is just as satisfying as I hoped. On my third time up, I clambered up a 5.8 climb (whatever that ( Read more... ) -
wtf day
I was in an inexplicably bad mood most of today. A lot of things are irritating me at the moment. Perhaps I should get off the computer, avoid the internet and get some exercise instead.
Meanwhile, apparently Nintendo announced their new DS design. I saw early reports of this the other day but since someone mentioned Kotaku I just assumed it was ( Read more... ) -
failing at day off
So I took a sick day today. But because I am also infected with the incurable hacking bug I am looking at code anyway. I was chatting with excellent friend sandroo about artsy-fartsy game Braid and how "wouldn't it be cool if you could rewind any game" given how bastard hard old NES games were. If you are a programmer, "wouldn't it be cool if X" is a ( Read more... ) -
lazyweb: task management
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Final version of pic
I'll spare your friends page this time.
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finally picked up the tablet again
Ugh, posting work in progress cause this picture is taking forever. This colouring job is incredibly boring but honestly it's not like the drawing was that great in the first place. Wah wah wah.
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A few thoughts on Braid
Jonathan Blow's Braid, if you don't follow video games, is the current darling of the press. Superficially Mario-derivative, it references the iconic games as a metaphor for a failing relationship. Every world treats the flow of time differently--without spoiling too much--as a metaphor for the protagonists' desperate desire to rewind time and undo ( Read more... ) -
wine tasting MAYHEM
Meg and I went WINE TASTING today. Neither of us got drunk but we both got wicked hangovers in the evening, which HARDLY SEEMS FAIR.
The day started at like 6am, on a saturday, what the heck. After a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast we hopped on the NUMBER ONE bus all the way down to the Ferry Building, at the end of Market St in ( Read more... )