Monthly Archives: March 2005

Mar 25 2005
Uncategorized

Easter Memories

Once upon a time, I had a lot of bamboo skewers at my desk. I really have no idea what they were doing there. This was several jobs back, when I was working in the same office as krasota and explodingcat. One of our coworkers brought in some peeps. Then we started talking about how their coloration and shape don’t occur in nature.

Of course, this is about the same time I was reading Hyperion.

The logical thing to do was impale peeps on the bamboo skewers and tape them to the borders of our cubicles. Right up through the chest. Like a warning to other peeps.

All different colors, it didn’t matter. All peeps were the same in the eyes of krasota, explodingcat, and myself. If they had the bunny rabbit peeps back then, rest assured that they would have been up there.

I seem to recall that they were up for about a month before they asked us to take them down.

Good times.

Update: explodingcat reminded me that over time, their colors faded and they appeared to grow bald. That was weird.

Mar 24 2005
Games, Technology

Greater than the sum of

The day is here, and now I find myself at the apex of “mein gadgetlusten.”

Embarrasingly, and not surprisingly, I really want a PSP. Well, more accurately, one part of me does.

Part of me says, “Oh, hey, just stop by Best Buy–she’ll probably have one, that bitch knows everyone. But you can buy one, then sell it for twice the price on eBay! It’s not an impulse buy, it’s an investment. They’re not due to have any more until May! MAY!”

That part is lying.

If I get my hands on a PSP, I am opening that sucker up and playing Lumines (apparently pronounced, “Loo-mines” according to SONY).

I would like to separate that part of my consciousness. It’s responsible for things like owning almost every iteration of the Aiptek Pencam. I also have not one, but two copies of Stephen King’s Bag of Bones. That part is screaming inside, saying that “You will die if X isn’t in your possession right now. you will be less of a man. X will make you complete.”

That part has issues. A lot of Madison Avenue to work though. But I think he’ll be okay if he makes it through his lunch hour without accidentally stopping by the Best Buy near work.

That part wants to address the rest of you. He says, “I, for one, welcome our new, tiny, shiny, sexy SONY branded handheld convergent media entertainment device overlords.”

Mar 23 2005
Games

Madness! MADNESS!

The time is fast approaching for all those good little boys (and maybe a few girls–I don’t see any in those pictures that are not being paid in cold hard cash to be out there) to get their PSP.

Some places have midnight openings, some don’t.

Just remember that, according to SONY, it’s not just a gaming device.

It’s a convergent portable media center alpha-and-omega entertainment gestalt. (And therefore not competing with Nintendo’s GameBoy. Right.)

Funny, I don’t seem to be able to spell “convergent” with the letters “P,” “S,” and “P.” Maybe I need a SONY phone camera VAIO tele-dictionary.

All I know is that when I get one, the first thing I’m doing is popping in a game. I haven’t figured out which one. I’m hoping by June I’ll have something figured out.

Like financing and how many pints of blood I can really live on.

Mar 23 2005
Games

For the lawyers

And for the law students, too.

Capcom’s releasing Gyakuten-Saiban here in the states. It’s a courtroom drama game. Why are you looking at me like that? No, really, it’ll be awesome!

You get to cross examine witnesses, present evidence, do. . . lawyer-like things.

Yeah, okay.

Mar 22 2005
Uncategorized

I'm attacking the darkness

It looks like pen and paper roleplaying just moved up (or down, depending on how you look at it) in the geek hierarchy.

I present to you, “Dungeons and Dragons For Dummies.”

This book shares shelves with the recently published:

  • Fitness For Dummies, 3rd Edition
  • Mormonism For Dummies
  • Baby Massage For Dummies
  • Living With Hepatitis C For Dummies

Looks like this particular hobby got a lot more acceptable. Just like Mormonism and Hepatitis C.

It has come a long way since the “It will eat our children’s souls!” days.

I always think about playing every now and again. I never ran a game, but there are a lot of people I do know that play. I like the creative aspect, and reading the source books.

They’re like tourbooks to lands that don’t really exist, filled with complex societies, city maps, flora and fauna, weather, natural (and unnatural) phenomena, and interesting characters.

Yes, I understand you can get the same thing out of reading a fantasy novel. But reading it in the form of a “guide to” rather than a “novel about” provides you with details and gives you a sense that someone dreamed this place “in the whole.”

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