I’ve been wanting to write this up for a while, but I’ve kept putting it off. Here are some of the games I played lately, all but the last via emulator. Coupled with beer, it’s how I spent my spare evenings in Japan after I stopped writing.

I started by downloading virtually every SNES ROM via a single BitTorrent and have been playing them with ( Read more... )

Well, I’m having a nice, lazy start to my weekend. Jaymee will kill me if I go on too much like this, so I guess it’s time to get my act together and make something of the time ahead of me. It sure felt good to kick back carefree for a bit, though.

It looks like the 2014 Commonwealth Games won’t be coming to Halifax, as Canada has withdrawn its ( Read more... )

So how did things go tonight ( Read more... )

My first accessory for this new machine is this:

PS2 controller to PC or MAC - USB adapter 2-PORTS NEW

Only one cent, plus eleven bucks shipping. What a joke. "NO PICKUPS NO EXCEPTIONS" Chortle. But it's something I want that would be tricky to find in stores. I have the PC version of Final Fantasy VII running quite smoothly; it would be pretty ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good New Year’s Day. I spent most of it with Jenna F., whom I’d met at the dance the night before. We were both by 5-10 years the youngest people there. (“It eliminates the competition!” she exclaimed ( Read more... )

Keeping one’s sense of humour in Ukraine can be a test of will, especially after four months. (Wow, has it really been four months already? It seems like only fourteen.) Still, despite the cultural idiosyncrasies and other difficulties, I’m still finding the value of each new day. The cynic inside me says that I could be doing that on a beach in ( Read more... )