Month: October 2008
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Congratulations Alec & Suz
Alec and Suz's wedding was this weekend, and I went along to the wedding reception on Saturday evening, along with Claire, Jimmy, Liz and Simon. We turned up stylishly early, and took advantage of the bar while we waited for anybody else we knew to appear (okay, so there was the bride and groom, of …
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Who Wants Troma Night?
Claire and I are going to be out of town this coming Friday and the Friday after that. Who wants to host Troma Night? (assuming there'll be anybody left in town...) If nobody pipes up, I'll tag it as cancelled.
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Grief (Interactive Fiction)
It's not as spectacular as Violet, but I've just enjoyed playing Grief, another IF Comp 2008 entry. Download the .z8 file (which you can play in Windows Frotz or your favourite Z-Machine).
Play it a few times to see a few of the different endings: if only you could have done things differently... but perhaps things … -
Violet (Interactive Fiction)
It's been a long while, but I've got some more interactive fiction to recommend: Violet, by Jeremy Freese. It's got all of the usual things I like in a modern piece of interactive fiction: a believable, detailed world that you can really feel like you're a part of, and which "carries on" around you; a …
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How to be Mono-Friendly
Freaksexual just wrote a fantastic blog post (as usual) instructing monogamous people "How to be Poly-Friendly". It's an excellent little post about the kinds of faux pas it's easy to make without even thinking about it, and while it's very obviously targetted at monogamous folk who have polyamourous friends or lovers, I couldn't help but …
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Two Recent Dreams
Summaries of two dreams I've had recently:
The Parrot
Faye was moving out of her family home and into a flat of her own, and as it was small, she wasn't able to provide sufficient space for all of her many critters, so she rehomed a parrot (a Scarlet Macaw, although I'm pretty sure she only has … -
Mi Parolas Esperanton! (Apenaŭ)
Antaŭ pluraj semajnoj, mi havis sonĝo. Mi sonĝis de mi parolas Esperanton. Neniu rajtas diri mi ne postiras mia sonĝoj, ĉar mi komencis lerni la lingvo!
(sed mi bezonis vortaron por skribis jenon)
Translation of my very rough-and-ready multilingual work, above: Several weeks ago, I had a dream. I dreamt that I spoke Esperanto. Nobody may say … -
Toilets With Urinals? Toilets Without Urinals?
Remember this picture I took at BiCon this year?
Looks like as a concept it's going to become not-so-strange, according to a report in Metro: University students open trans-gender toilets. -
Interview Sarah Palin
Remember about four-and-a-bit years ago, I downloaded Dadadodo, which I described at the time as a "word disassociator?" The program itself is a Markov chain generator/randomiser that works on sentence structures: in other words, given some text (speeches, poetry, blog posts, whatever - other kinds have been demonstrated to work on things like music) it …