Found a book in a box. We've been cleaning up. Actually Jennie has been cleaning the house, has dumped 3 to 4 thousand kilograms of interesting, historical, useful (potentially), valuable (to someone, somewhere, sometime), and totally ignored (for most of the last decade) stuff into a skip the size of a standard international swimming championships short course pool.
I have helped by making appreciative grunting noises as more the floor in the house is uncovered, and tried not to cry when a pair of SLI'ed 3dfx Voodoo2 cards went west. That graphics set saw the closest ever 2 person multiplayer NFS2SE shootout around Hollywood in the late nineties. The result sheet said I'd won it even though the times were the same to the hundredth, but the replay showed that Number 6 had his bumper slightly ahead. Legends are made of this.
Anyway Jennie threw it in the skip. So in order to save even one of my several hundred old sci-fi books, I had to take desperate measures. I put one in my work bag, took it to work, and read it. It was a full proof plan, carefully thought out, and brilliantly executed. The book was saved.
Roozle had his phonecam in his pocket when Ed Force 1 came into Sydney.
The concert of the decade was good. Very good. Better than good. Much better. El Bravo said it all really.They can put on a show. I was pleased with having seats but realized afterward that we hadn't actually sat down once the main act started, so next time (provided we're under 60) we will just go gold ticketing on the floor. Bumped into several dudes the following week down town who had gone also - youngsters mainly, born half a decade after the last IM concert we went to at the Hordern. Since then time has past with uni studies and mmorpg adventuring.
WoW has sunk without a trace, and I won't resurrect it until it appeals again. There is a concept known as The Elder Game: it's about what the point is of continuing to play an open-ended game once you have hit the top levels. In Wow you grind, quest and instance in order to get better gear. And once you've got the better gear you can then more ably quest and instance and grind so you can get even better gear so that you can... Had it up to here (chin raised, hand held palm down at level of nostrils) for the moment. The next expansion holds potential though. So what does one do when WoW has gone? One subscribes to POTBS instead. It's very pretty graphically, and complex enough to be interesting. I'll give it a month or so.
The book was written by Larry Niven and called Ringworld. Sort of pre-digital cyberpunk, tiny bit suspect mathematically, a wee bit dated, but a very good read nonetheless.
I have helped by making appreciative grunting noises as more the floor in the house is uncovered, and tried not to cry when a pair of SLI'ed 3dfx Voodoo2 cards went west. That graphics set saw the closest ever 2 person multiplayer NFS2SE shootout around Hollywood in the late nineties. The result sheet said I'd won it even though the times were the same to the hundredth, but the replay showed that Number 6 had his bumper slightly ahead. Legends are made of this.
Anyway Jennie threw it in the skip. So in order to save even one of my several hundred old sci-fi books, I had to take desperate measures. I put one in my work bag, took it to work, and read it. It was a full proof plan, carefully thought out, and brilliantly executed. The book was saved.
Roozle had his phonecam in his pocket when Ed Force 1 came into Sydney. The concert of the decade was good. Very good. Better than good. Much better. El Bravo said it all really.They can put on a show. I was pleased with having seats but realized afterward that we hadn't actually sat down once the main act started, so next time (provided we're under 60) we will just go gold ticketing on the floor. Bumped into several dudes the following week down town who had gone also - youngsters mainly, born half a decade after the last IM concert we went to at the Hordern. Since then time has past with uni studies and mmorpg adventuring.
WoW has sunk without a trace, and I won't resurrect it until it appeals again. There is a concept known as The Elder Game: it's about what the point is of continuing to play an open-ended game once you have hit the top levels. In Wow you grind, quest and instance in order to get better gear. And once you've got the better gear you can then more ably quest and instance and grind so you can get even better gear so that you can... Had it up to here (chin raised, hand held palm down at level of nostrils) for the moment. The next expansion holds potential though. So what does one do when WoW has gone? One subscribes to POTBS instead. It's very pretty graphically, and complex enough to be interesting. I'll give it a month or so.
The book was written by Larry Niven and called Ringworld. Sort of pre-digital cyberpunk, tiny bit suspect mathematically, a wee bit dated, but a very good read nonetheless.
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