Month: August 2008

I have the original Settlers 1 manual with the rest of my manuals 🙂 Complete with copy protection done with 3 icons on the top and bottom of each page …

Masters of Orion 2 gets me like that – it’s such a good strategy game that I keep on going back into it. I’m managing to restrict myself to just one Crushing Victory over the computer before having a break but that Crushing Victory takes like 2 days to play through 🙂

Settlers IV is probably a better game than Settlers II because it’s more free form (no roads) but there’s a sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing your ring-road system gets things moving well around your settlement.

Erm – my GeekStatementAlert just went off with that mention of ringroad systems !

I own Settlers II as well, so I know all about how that game literally snatches hours of your day/night away without you even realizing it.

I got to the point where I said “right no more! I have to do laundry and other chores that have been building up over the last couple of days.”

However, there is something strangely satisfactory about building up your village and army, and then watching as your huge army goes to kick the living daylights out of opposing villages armies lol.

Some of these were very freaky! LoL! A very eclectic mix 🙂

Thanks for the tip off about the nebuliser. I hope not to need it if these meds work.

I used to listen to albums off cds … But that meant I tended to listen to the same things over and over again. Got kinda boring …

I think I prefer the iTunes Party Shuffle method 🙂 It gives me good variation in what I’m listening to, plus the app lets me have an influence on what’s coming up next, unlike a normal Shuffle button.

And with almost 1500 tracks covering 4.2 days of music, there’s almost always something I’ve not listened to for ages 🙂 That’s 121 albums, all of which are cds I’ve imported in.

One slightly downer is that classical doesn’t really work on the laptop, which might change when I acquire one of those Airport Express widgets …

I doubt anyone would recognize what’s on my media player. Bizarre music indeed!

Love the variety in yours, though…sounds like a sonic party lurks in your ears!

This one’s brought to you courtesy of Michele, I saw this and just had to fire up iTunes to see what it would say about me :

Instructions:
1. Open your music library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod, whatever)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question below, type the song that’s playing
5. New question — press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool

Here goes ! I’m cheating a little with steps 2 to 5 though because I’m taking them from what iTunes Party Shuffle has lined up for me. But I usually listen to my music via Party Shuffle anyway … As per tradition, Youtube links provided where I could find then 🙂

Opening Credits : “This Man’s Too Strong” – Dire Straits

First Day At School : “Stairway to Heaven” – Led Zeppelin

Falling In Love : “Sex Crime (1984)” – Eurythmics (no kidding !)

Breaking Up : “Little Earthquakes” – Tori Amos

Prom : “World Where You Live” – Crowded House

Life’s Okay : “The Dreaming” – Kate Bush

Mental Breakdown : “Heaven” – Talking Heads (ok – that’s a little weird)

Driving : “Dreams” – Fleetwood Mac (if you see a silver Focus with a dreamy driver – be afraid)

Flashback : “Yet Another Movie” – Pink Floyd (lol!)

Getting Back Together : “Vow” – Garbage (some of these are freaky!)

Wedding : “Tubular Bells” – Mike Oldfield

Divorce : “Storm The Palace” – Catatonia

Current Mood : “The Gift” – INXS (not sure about the whole flames & explosions thing from the video and how it reflects on “current mood” …)

Final Battle : “Whistling In The Dark” – They Might Be Giants

Death Scene : “A Pillow Of Winds” – Pink Floyd

End Credits : “Storms In Africa” – Enya
(could have been “Never Enough” by Alisha’s Attic, cos that’s the one that would come after Storms In Africa)

If you join in on these one, drop us a line – but please also let Michele know too 😉 (link up top)

Yeah – Die Another Day was one of the few Bond films I’m not too bothered about.

Toys are fun but a film should really be about the characters primary, instead of the characters being secondary to the flashier toys …

I agree with you on Casino Royale and the revamping of Bond. After the Pierce Brosnan/Halle Barry one, I had sworn I wouldn’t watch another – but my husband convinced me to give this one a go – SO glad I did. I like Bond again!

-by the way, Michele sent me 🙂

Watching Casino Royale again off dvd 🙂

There’s a new Bond film coming soon and one thing I like to do before watching sequels is to remind myself of the film(s) that came before. Now it’s the turn of Casino Royale, which is where the quote in the post title comes from. It’s from the end of the dinner where Bond meets Vesper Lynd, describing :

“How was your lamb Mr Bond?”
“Skewered … on sympathisers”

Great line. Decent film too, they took a very long running series that was getting seriously tired and revamped it rather satisfactorily. And a very good excuse to sit in front of the telly chilling out for a couple of hours instead of getting tempted back into the PC. I’ve been on that rather too much over the weekend :

Saturday – 12 hour Settlers II game – stable but Damn ! 12 hours for one game is a seriously long time for a game that should really be done in a third of that 🙂 Not a bad game Settlers, they get you thinking strategically without being as frenetic as most Real Time Strategy games are. Good thing Olympics were on the telly too, followed by DS9 and Voyagers off recording or I’d have gone a leetle nuts. Yep – more nuts.

Sunday was more game, this time World of Warcraft. I’m with a better guild this time, much more talkative and the members actually help each other. I still miss the old Mercs days, I think because it was something I was greatly responsible for setting up and building in the early days. It was my baby, which is why I got rather emotionally involved. What I don’t miss are all the politics that kicked off between the various little cliques that formed in the Mercs and were eventually responsible for destroying the guild.

Cliques are bad …

More film :

“There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets, that is the latter” – Vesper

I used to have a habit of including a random quote on my game forum signatures, taken from whatever made a grin hit me. I don’t do that so much any more, mostly because I’m only really bothered about one forum nowadays :

Violence Reborn – has a quote that’s going to stay forever 🙂 (will post it sometime)
Eve – Assti – not too impressed with how these guys behave, so not making the effort here
NWR – similar but the disenchantment is for completely different reasons
PXF – never really got to know these guys
Mercs forum – dead & buried

Right – pizza’s gone, Ba’al is doing the dealer’s job in Casino Royale (very different to his Go’auld persona) and I need to get my popcorn popping so I finish it before the end of the film !

PS Last time I did this it was with Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Cracking film Dark Knight, even though I find The Joker rather disturbing. Heath Ledger is outstanding in his final role, although I must watch Knight’s Tale again so that becomes the memory I’ll keep of his acting.

Hoping for another good collection on this coming Thursday, although I might hold off for a week or so to get a full 13 of old movie and classical weather songs.

Yeah, probably is that time around – after seeing a few “This isn’t Prince but we’re masquerading it as him” videos on Youtube, I gave up looking …

I Can’t Stand The Rain was one of Mrs C’s ideas 🙂 But I didn’t know the track so didn’t put it in there … Raining Men is another that just missed out …