I’ve been playing Hearts of Iron, a World War II Strategy game, a bit this past week. So far I have been working my way up the nations, getting the hang of the game. I started with Portugaul, then Spain, then Brazil, and yesterday, China. Maybe now I’m ready for commanding a small Japan in 1936…
It’s a great game, quite detailed, and you really get the feel of the war from a countries’ high command view point.
We just had our our experience with the smallness of the world. Elizabeth bought a doll dress from a seller on ebay, and upon sending in her shipping address, found out the seller was our aunt in Virginia! We got a good laugh out of it.
“Gandalf, Gandalf! Take the ring! I am too small to carry this thing!” “I can not, will not hold the One. You have a slim chance, but I have none. I will not take it on a boat, I will not take it across a moat. I cannot take it under Moria, that’s one thing I can’t do for ya. I would not bring it into Mordor, I would not make it to the border.” -excerpt from Dr. Suess’s FOTR. (If such a book existed)
Found over here.
Suddenly I’m finding all the apple websites a slow a molasses. What is up this that? Oh, duh, it’s Apple Toy Day today, when millions of mac fans line up to see what cool gadgets are they can play with next.
This site full of “Misused” quotation marks, is pretty funny reading.
Elizabeth and I just decided to bring out the toys and make a movie tonight. Our Mac laptops are out, she has brought some dolls down to use as actors, but we have no story to shoot yet. Now Elizabeth is hurriedly typing away making up a script based on my suggestion of the confusion of using the “Start” button to shut down a Windows computer. This will have the be a quick movie - we only have an hour for this.
Elizabeth and I tried out iStopMotion, here is the first, admittedly amateur result (Quicktime 180K).
I keep wishing I could use my new TiBook while it’s in its case. some kind of chording keyboard, and video glasses, would be great, but right now they are way to expensive. Oh well. I’d give it two years for things to get to reasonable price levels. When that happens, the ”chess team on wheels” will be sending emails, snapping pictures, and chatting while , dashing around on their segways. Talk about a smart mob - of geeks!
Find out what happens when a teenager gets to borrow a segway for a week and makes a movie about it. It’s the last scene that really makes you want one. ::Grin::
A year after we moved in, my house is now getting onto the family network. In the future, being able to work from my house, instead of a nearby attic will be wonderful, but pulling the ethernet cables was not wonderful.
Dad and I spent six hours today pulling cable, much of it in messy, uncomfortable places. I sure hope I never have to do this again.