Played Geometry Wars projected onto the side of a building at a party tonight. Nice concept, but a 15m display might annoy the neighbours, doncha think?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
It is often contended that no word in the English language rhymes with “Orange”, but few people know the true facts of the matter: Boris Brinkle, a turn-of-the-century copyright lawyer from Hungary, devised this cruel and totally untrue rumour to deter those who seek the truth. My uncle inherited paperwork from the estate of Professor Brinkle when he passed away earlier this week, and he uncovered an explosive documents, the contents of which I’ll transcribe herein.
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My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so [...]
This guy at work sprayed some intensely chemical cleaner on his desk about a week ago, and I’ve been smelling it ever since. It’s annoying enough that I googled “Phantom Smell”, but that didn’t help, because smelling something that’s not there is a symptom of all sorts of heavy shit. So I’m kinda ignoring it [...]
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Had a good time at the Perth Indie Games Scene Showcase and Mixer, and disappointed I didn’t have anything to showcase. Impressive to see what various peeps have been up to. And now I’m amazingly tired, and still putting off sleep time with another episode of Teh Learning Curve.
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How I loved my 1GB shuffle. It was the first generation “stick o’ gum” model. Nothing more than a slickly-designed USB memory stick with playback controls and a headphone jack. But perfect for holding enough podcasts to get me to work and back again, and then some. More recent models have gone down the minituarisation [...]
Gak, my iPod Shuffle just died. I usually listen to a podcast while cleaning up after dinner, to distract me from the fact that D. is watching some American Soap Opera or other. No luck tonight – just a flashing orange light. Thinking the battery low, I plugged it into the old iMac for a [...]