Just for kicks, I picked up a used copy of Resident Evil a few weeks ago at E/B. I’d heard that the interface was sort of weird (it is), and frankly that’s the sort of game I’d rather play on my PC than a console but hell, it was only 5 bucks.
I started fiddling around with it a few days ago.
Holy sweet criminey, but they do know how to crank the freak-out dial up to 11, don’t they?
Gah.
I say again: Gah.
I still don’t know what I’m going to do for NaNoWriMo…
While we walked he kept a hand thrust out towards the highway, thumb extended.
“Warding charm,” he said in response to my look. “We don’t want anyone to notice us while we’re out here; this makes sure they won’t. Virtually fool-proof except for the actual fools willing to pull over.”
“What do you do with them?”
He shrugged, his shoulders sliding oddly beneath the long coat. “Let them see what I really look like. Most of them assume it’s some bad acid coming back up or a warning from god or something and take off.”
“That’s who pulls over?”
He nodded. “Hippies and good samaritans; they’re both dying out, though, so it doesn’t come up much as it used to. The sixties were a pain in the ass.”
Shopping Therapy
Per usual, I reacted to money stress (refinancing the house, which seems to be *knock wood* going fine) by going out and buying something I didn’t actually need and could barely justify — Belkin’s G700 PDA Keyboard for Palm m125, m130, m500, i705.
Initially I was pleased by the keyboard itself but let down because it seemed to go into a sleep mode if I stopped typing for more than about five seconds — I had to take the palm off the keyboard, cycle power and reconnect it to get it going again. Could have been a deal-breaker — and a real bummer.
Update: it’s a known issue interfacing with some models — easily and quickly fixed with a 48.5k download.
Surprise, surprise: there’s even a place to plug my sync-cradle’s power cord into the keyboard to let the Palm stay charged while I type. I can write nearly anywhere without relying on my crappy handwriting. Sweet.
Question: What’s the last thing you bought just to cheer yourself up, or do you not do that.
Last night was pretty damn good
It finally occured to me last night that the Buffy crew has been missing a cast member for awhile… a subtle element of the show that makes it somehow ‘better’ when present and ‘worse’ when it’s not.
That cast member? The high school. MAN it’s good to have it back.
Thanks, Lori and Stephanie
Buffy/ Haunted will be rebroadcast on Saturday 10/12/02 from 7:00pm-9:00pm in the Denver area (where some moron at the UPN repeater spilled a jar of mayonnaise on an important keyboard or something during the broadcast).
MNFB
Brett Favre, Donald Driver, Ahman Green. What do these men have in common?
a) All Green Bay Packers.
b) Collectively spanked the Bears tonight.
c) All members of the illustrious Typhoid Bay Fever fantasy football team.
d) Just earned a truckload of points for said team.
e) All of the above.
For a number of reasons, I haven’t been able to follow the NFL games very much this season. Monday nights have lately become the only night I have time to do anything around the house, Sunday night’s game is on a channel I don’t get, and Sundays themselves, once a bastion of footbally goodness, have been planned out and filled with activities until somewhere around November 1st.
But tonight we tried to get caught up on a few taped shows and while rewinding one, noticed the game was on.
And it had Brett Favre, whom I like.
And it was against Chicago, which is classic.
And it had a lot of guys I’m using on my FFB team.
I don’t know if you’d call it relaxing or productive (more on “productive” later), but it felt good to veg on the couch and watch one of the greats of the game.*
Snobby literary recommendations for free stuff
I finished up Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927, available via download at Project Gutenberg. For those not familiar, PG collects public domain literary work and puts them online for free download — a noble project that’s been going on for over a decade.
What’s the book, you ask? A travelogue. A comedic non-fiction. The ne’er-do-well of England’s response to Walden.
It’s a blog, actually.
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NaNoWriMo IV
Our demographic surveys indicate that many of you will be employed throughout October and November. Because work tends to interfere with the creative process, our team of negotiators have brokered special deals with your managers and bosses. For the next two months, any time spent planning your novel, writing your novel, or chatting online about your plans for writing a novel, will be considered Company Time and will be paid accordingly by your supervisor. Your employers feel that is the least they can do for you.
Also, they say you can print out your novel on the company laser printer when you’re finished.
I really wish I knew what I was going to write. My brain is all cloudy and befoggled.