As many of you know, I'm now working for a company in London ( Read more... )

Anyone interested in a barbecue tomorrow (Sat) late afternoon/evening? It's supposed to be rather warm (TM).

A couple of weeks ago, I headed to Derbyshire for ConStellation, which was a gaming con / group holiday organised by leathellin. This coincidentally coincided with my 40th Birthday, which was a great excuse for a party.

( What I did on my holidays )

Following my previous post, I did indeed make it to the British Museum, which I've not been to in ages. After I had wandered around for quite a while and seeing a tiny fraction of what is on display, leathellin joined me to look around the current Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibitionThough I'm familiar with the history of Pompeii, I was astonished by how well ( Read more... )

I'll post something about ConStellation (the Peak District Con) soon, but for now:

I'm off to London today, and hope to get to the British Museum Evening opening later. Anyone else around?

In other news I've been summoned for Jury Duty next week which is a pain (mainly in timing) but hopefully will only be a couple of weeks.

I'm supposed to be writing my game for the upcoming con, but I seem to have been distracted by playing through Bioshock Infinite ( Read more... )

As I think I've mentioned before, I've played a fair bit of the interesting and wildly-different-to-everything-eelse Flash-based 2d MMO GlitchMy original reaction to this game was that it was an awesome piece of technology and an interesting piece of game design, but I couldn't see how it was sustainable ( Read more... )

Just finished the new XCOM game (PC version), though on the pretty easy "Normal" difficulty only ( Read more... )

Went to see the new Avengers film last weekend. This was better than expected ( Read more... )

Off to wander around some London museums today.

I'll be finishing up at the Natural History Museum for their late night opening of the Animal Inside Out exhibition, hopefully meeting leathellin and possibly others there.