I've been playing Minecraft. This game seems to suit me. If you've never heard of it: it's world-building/exploring, first-person, with a fairly sophisticated physics engine. And intentionally blocky graphics, as you can see in this picture with a duck [ETA: chicken].


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whoosh goes two hours... with a flurry of notes and thwacks. dawn_guy and catbear introduced me to Rock Band, and I didn't flunk out on every song. It was fun!

* Civic holiday off from work yesterday. Much happened. Short version.

* Folk Festival in Cambridge: d discovered for us a very tasty South American restaurant, we hung out with persephoneplace and bodhranman, and watched Morris Dancers in their finery. I have photos, but haven't gotten them uploaded yet.

* Birthday Party: elbie_at_trig is a Triangle Square. I mis-heard someone ( Read more... )

This afternoon elbie_at_trig showed off Lego Star Wars for the Wii- it's fun. The entire Star Wars series is turned into sets of puzzles to be solved by your collection of Lego characters. It has wonderful Lego touches: you can use the force on various objects, and either they will move around, or they will burst into constituent Lego bricks. You can run a ( Read more... )

Some of you may appreciate this news from wunderland_syn if you've not heard already: coming soon- Zombie Fluxx. I find it funny because apparently Andrew Looney hates movie-gore as much as I do.

Also, they won their fifth Origins award, for Treehouse, which we happen to have the pieces for, because we bought "Icehouse" about a bazillion years ago. I think we ( Read more... )

It's quite the snowstorm out there. Both d. and I were at a point where we could do work as easily from home as from the University, so we drove home at lunch-time. This turned out to be a fine choice, and the University closed shortly after.

I just took roverthedog for a walk, since we're due for freezing rain/hail this evening; and I felt like some ( Read more... )