Month: April 2008

It’s all a bit technical for me. I like lots of visitors – it makes getting up at crack of dawn, to write a post that has been bugging me, worth while. Here from Michele’s again.

They could be recommending worse 🙂

BTW, Michele sent me.

Heh heh heh – this link is one where we’re probably scaring the owner of the site cos there’s a bunch of us at work who have the page open and set to auto-refresh every minute or so 🙂

It doesn’t happen too often. Well, not yet anyway 🙂 And we’re only about a hundred people so we don’t knock out the site’s internet access like what happens when it’s the Ashes in cricket 🙂

I think one can overdo links – I’m rubbish at them BTW. My heart sinks when I go for a quick read of a favourite blog and there will be sometimes four or five links, which one knows will be worthwhile reading but take time one doesn’t have to spare, and one is drenched in guilt for the rest of the day.
Michele sent me over.

Just spotted on Amazon while surfing the things they’re recommending me :

Recommended for you : Electronics & Photo.

Item – DVD-R recordable spindle, 50 discs.
Recommended because you said you owned : Harry Turtledove’s Colonisation Second Contact.

I could understand being recommended a DVD-R disc spindle if I’d done any PC hardware buying through Amazon but the only hardware I’ve acquired there is the Bluetooth gps receiver (still happy with that widget). I don’t trust them all that much but I use Overclockers.co.uk for my PC hardware buying. They’re cheap and have mostly given me good bits. What’s Second Contact ? It’s a book about aliens coming to Earth to take it over as a colony planet. There’s no cd’s in there …

I wonder why Amazon can’t think of anything to recommend for me on Garden & Outdoors or Kitchen & Home. Funny that 😉

Back to House MD watching and thinking about whether I should eat something 🙂 That’s one thing I get when I have bugs. It worked pretty well last time I got bugs bad enough to get me off work. I lost half a stone in 3 days …

PS I am currently in a state of being a little irked. Partly because I’d like to pass on a link about something. Mostly because I can’t pass on that link because work wouldn’t like it. I may have to hide it somewhere 🙂 🙂 🙂

I enjoy a good RPG as well, I am in the middle of playing Fable on Xbox a 2nd time around, exploring it a bit more. But it is tedious sometimes.

I am also a big Harry Turtledove fan, although I prefer his Fantasy stuff vs. the Alternate Reality stuff.

It’s CK’s birthday very soon, so a bunch of the Crazies hit Preview Bar & Grill for lunch before heading off to do some bowling. It’s the first Saturday of a school holiday time, so it was absolutely packed. The kind of packed where you’re keeping as much of an eye on small people as you are on the pins 😉

Being packed also means you’re not so likely to get the balls you need, in our case CK, Bionicdwarf and me all like to have size 10 balls with large holes … My hands aren’t that big but I can’t release a bowling ball properly unless the holes are right. I got my benchmark in both games by getting 116 in the first and 100 in the second. I use a size 10 ball because while I have the arm strength to use a 12, I’ll not have much hope of keeping that going over a couple of games.

I don’t bowl too often, so I’m usually relearning how to get the consistency going, so I’m quite happy with hitting my 100 benchmark this time. Even though in the second game, I needed a Spare and 9 to make the hundred … Good start in that game but I had a period in the middle where I only got 2 pins down in a couple of frames. The problem in my shoulder doesn’t affect 10 pin bowling, as the flaw there kicks in when my arm is pointing upwards. 10 pin bowling balls are a bit heavy for that and a cricket bowling action would get you evicted from a 10 pin alley due to scaring everyone with 100 yards 🙂

Results :
Bionicdwarf coming out in front with a bit of Smirnoff Ice powered consistency
CK being 3rd in the first game and 2nd in the second
Me hitting my benchmarks but struggling for consistency
CQ doing her best but struggling due to poorly arm

Bowling’s fun 🙂 And the waitress in Preview Bar & Grill was rather pretty too. However, I can see the time coming very soon where I need to hit the coffee again. There’s another one of those bugs going round at work again, I have a feeling it may be my turn. Strong, milky coffee is great, because I make it strong enough to make my hair stand on end and smooth enough to ease a sore throat 🙂

Ahhhh, civilization. I started with the Colonization game and then went on to the Civilization series. Awesome!.

Recently I have downloaded Colonization again and it had helped pass many hours on an airplane.

Here from Michele.

BK – Doom was very, very close to being on there 🙂 Trouble is, do you put in Doom, or Quake, or Dark Forces, or Far Cry or even the original Wolfenstein …

Utenzi – might be worth checking out Civ 4 🙂 Looks like Firaxis noticed their game getting a little unfriendly with Civ 3. I definitely did, Civ 3 drove me away from the Civ concept for a little while. Civ 4 is rather stripped back though, it’s back to the form of Civ 1.

Must fire it up again so I can indulge in a bit of world conquering 🙂

Michele sent me over, Sleepy Pete.

I loved Civilization when it first came out. By version 3 it got so bloated it could be annoying to play but the earlier versions were quite fun. You’re quite correct about the spear versus tank problem. The algorithms that were in the software were often a mite peculiar in execution.