It has been 65 days since I wrote here. How sparse my writing without South Africa to complain about! I liken this to when I got married and found that I no longer wrote hundreds of poems, mostly because a) I'd been writing them for my future wife or b) I'd written them because I was without my future wife ( Read more... )

In South Africa, "just now" means "shortly", but it also means "a few minutes ago". As in: I saw something happen just now. Or: I'll do that just now.

I find it quite difficult to stop saying it, and is there anything in other Englishes with the same meaning? Especially the retrospective sense?

Some of the stuff we did this past year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14757069@N02

This is an especially interesting chart in this slide show about the Wall Street protesters ( Read more... )

If I eat one more piece of pie, I'll die!
If I can't have one more piece of pie, I'll die!
So since it's all decided I must die,
I might as well have one more piece of pie.
MMM-OOOH-MY!
Chomp-Gulp-'Bye.

- Shel Silverstein

In alphabetical order:

Balance of power
Beach Head
California Games
Chessmaster 2000
F-15 Strike Eagle
Flight Simulator
Gettysburg - The Turning Point
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Impossible Mission
Mean 18
M.U.L.E.
Pinball Construction Set
Raid on Bungeling Bay
Reach for the Stars
Shanghai
Silent Service
Starflight
Ultima
Worms?
Zork

Here it is: http://www.archive.org/stream/1988-05-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_096_1988_May#page/n5/mode/2upRead more... )

Amazing news - gamers being put to real use.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/foldit-players-solve-aids-puzzle

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