Yup. The big two-oh-oh. That's alotta hooch!
Astromech Droid, R2 Unit, One OfI am the proud owner of a brand new R2 unit. He talks, he moves, he can play messages and dance and guard your room ... pretty much the fully featured astromech droid experience.
Just don't ask him about Darth Vader.
Too Much Information
Don't say you weren't warned.
Since my lovely wife is profoundly sick, and I am on-the-edges, not-quite-fighting-it-off sick, she has me taking a lot of pills and vitamins. Among these are some with vitamin B. Vitamin B, in case you weren't aware, has been known to discolour your urine.
I wasn't prepared to discover that "discolour your urine" apparently means "you'll be peeing fluorescent lime cordial". Seriously, I didn't think nature could make that colour.
Game Night
Game night tonight. Unfortunately Mr. T has passed due to the weather and Null is still Stranded in Deutchland, but the rest of us are good to go.
Practical Joke
Dramatis Personae
The Dutch Nasty -- a hypocondriac
Space Coyote -- a prankster
Scene 1
The Dutch Nasty is at his computer. His phone rings.
Dutch Nasty: What?
Space Coyote: Accept the damn image already.
The Dutch Nasty checks his MSN. Space Coyote wants to send him an image.
Dutch Nasty: Um, I don't know if I want to.
Space Coyote: Dude, it's work safe. Just accept it.
Dutch Nasty: Ok.
The Dutch Nasty accepts the image. The image shows Space Coyote, standing in the Nasty's cube, with the Nasty's phone down the front of his pants.
The Dutch Nasty drops the phone.
End Scene
Take A Trip To The World Of Tomorrow
I spent some time playing Civ3 on my mac laptop this weekend. Still a very fun game, although my enjoyment of it was deeply affected by more than the huge leap backwards in graphics. Playing Civ3 really underlines all the things about Civ4 that are so, so much better.
Informative screens every time you get a new technology. Hover popups with useful information. Informative city summary bars. Technological advances which aren't either wastes of time or game-swingers with little in between. A full, complete, integrated resource model.
Not to mention that towns, mines and farms make so much more sense than roads, mines and irrigation.
Civ3, even though it looks superficially very similar, really is a game of micromanagement. Winning the game means knowing what's optimal and working those corner-cases good and hard. Civ4 doesn't do that. You can stop worrying about what worker is where and just play the game.
Still, Civ3 has its charms.
Indian Food
This weekend my lovely wife and I teamed up to make dinner; curried scalloped potatoes and this creamy Indian chicken concoction with a french name. It was, well, fucking amazing. I had a moment.
Next time everybody's over, that's what we're making.
Just, wow.
2 comments:
Civilization is the devil.
Can't say I didn't warn you. ;)
Oh! my god... I laughed out loud for a good 2mins. Firstly...I was also shocked that your pee turns bright yellow...never thought of lime cordial...but you hit the nail on the head with that one. I laughed so hard. Then when I read the Dutch Nasty story.. I couldn't help but laugh more. Boy, oh boy! Thanks for making me laugh YLLAN..I needed that seems my man is not around to do it for me. ;}
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