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Saturday, November 23, 2002
OK - here's a cool link to the Film Snobs. And here's a little teaser from the review of XXX: "Starring: * The Iron Giant * Explosions and Gadgets! You Know, Like in James Bond! Or Maxim Magazine! * The Things I'm Going to Do For My Country Directed by a Rob Cohen, Who Should Just Buy A Harley To Deal With His Midlife Crisis and Not Make Any More Movies" ---- Next link is from "How much is inside" And some teasers from the site: "How much is inside a pound of coffee? Coffee is usually sold in U.S. pounds here in California, while cocaine and heroin are available in grams and kilograms. Brooke, Jane and I pose with the first two gallons. I usually only bring one gallon of morning coffee in my car, otherwise my driving can become erratic. * The metric version of these numbers is 26.5 liters per kilogram of beans * There are 3,350 coffee beans per pound, therefore 1,000 beans per liquid gallon * There are about 8½ grams of caffeine per pound of coffee, therefore... * the lethal dosage of caffeine (reported to kill 50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral administration, so even a pound of coffee probably won't kill you. * If you drink coffee in 16oz. cups like I do, that 3.2 gallons will fill 25½ cups of coffee, more if you leave room for cream * And finally, if you order some complex bullshit like a double-tall, half-caff, skim Mochachino with light foam & two ice-cubes, you are 50% more likely to have someone spit in your drink." But the site is definately worth checking out - at least for the pictures...:-) ---- This link goes for the Hypertextbook. Check out the "Get Bent" section about a 3682 miles long bikeride: "This is the story of my six-week odyssey riding across North America on a recumbent bicycle: a bicycle you ride in a recumbent (seated) position. Recumbent bicycles are sometimes called "bents", which is where the phrase "get bent" comes from." - and his advices, if you'd ever do the same: "1. Don't be cheap with a bike your going to ride for thousands of miles. 2. Don't listen to advice from non-cyclists. 3. Don't own a car." *** - | posted by Tommy on 2:11 PM ---ooo--- Tuesday, November 19, 2002 OK - the story about the 8march2003 site continues. (Part I and II can be found at Nov. 13 & Nov. 6) Apparently the people behind the site got overwhelmed by the vast respons (or that might be part of the scam as well?)...I don't know! But I DO miss the auto-translater (lol) *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:29 PM ---ooo--- Gonzalo Frasca has been visiting school - I would SO much have loved to be there! :-( Well, another time perhaps... *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:22 PM ---ooo--- I'm fitting my thesis together now: The list looks like this: Part I 1) Interaction/interactivity 2) Social behavior and practices in table top adventure games 3) Social interaction 4) Mediated social interaction in computer adventure games Part II CASE: EverQuest *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:17 PM ---ooo--- Internet connection has been VERY slow the last couple of days - actually so slow that I had to give up getting connected to my blog :-( But here I am - back as usual! (and still not smoking for those of you who wondered - thanks for the supporting mails; they helped!) ---- Been looking through old CD games for inspiration for sounds in my semester project...all I can say now is: sitting listening to waves, bridges, footsteps aso. a whole morning makes you weird! ---- Finished Schizm today (finally) - it was one of the hardest AND most beautiful games I ever played! *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:09 PM ---ooo--- Friday, November 15, 2002 It's International Domino Day in Leeuwarden today... They've been tipping over domino pieces for the last hour...and of course - "don't forget the commercial breaks!" What they did was to put in pendulums, that the poor domino pieces would start every ½ hour, so the pendulum could swing until it found rest...and the tip over another domino pieces in the middle 10 min. later - I find that funny! Since it's not legal to have commercial breaks in the middle of programs in Denmark, we normally get to see some still instead (f.ex. the outside of the Shrine during The Academy Awards). I then wonder if Denmark watched the pendulum all 10 minutes?! I wonder it at all was broadcasted in Denmark?! I later found out that it is world wide live transmitted to most countries....! Did you see it?! *** - | posted by Tommy on 10:19 PM ---ooo--- I was looking for bitmap tracing for my semesterproject when I stumbled across this site: "Flazoom.com's objective is to share the coolest Flash content on the web with our visitors. Our team of Flazoomers are dedicated Flash Fanatics who are on top of the latest and greatest Flash sites from around the world. ... With an ever growing team of Flazoomers, our home page is quickly becoming the place to find the newest and coolest Flash." Sounds intriguing, right?! They linked to this site, that has succeeded in the use of bitmap tracing...pretty cool! ---- Dear Blogger! Please give me an option, so I quickly can make links, that opens in a new window! I'm getting VERY tired of writing target="_blank" in the middle of the HTML-code all the time... That was all (for now?) Have a nice....eeeeh....X-mas? Tommy ---- I totally forgot to tell you this. I got these cool (yet primitive) program (Silk Quit v2.60 (588KB)) yesterday from a new friend... It's been running since I installed it - it gives the feature of telling how far I am in my ex-smoker project - like this: "One week, one day, 2 hours, 36 minutes and 5 seconds. 202 cigarettes not smoked, saving $31.42. Life saved: 16 hours, 50 minutes." (Just used a shortcut key) Cool, eh?! *** - | posted by Tommy on 8:27 PM ---ooo--- Thursday, November 14, 2002 I bought my very first dutch magazine yesterday - I'm so happy!!!!! It's called 'sla', which means salad, and is a "magazine culinaire" as I think the french would put it...in short: A vegetarian food- and lifestyle magazine...zonder vlees of vis (without meat or fish) (Richard of course bought a comic magazine called PIM - really funny and VERY morbid!!!) I've done nothing but reading in it....trying to guess every other word. But it's cool, I now know (at least seen) all the words I will ever be using in a kitchen... Mail me if you want the recipe for Ma'aqoeda or Foeyonghai - I'll mail it to you instantly...in dutch of course :-) ---- Time is standing still - semesterproject must be handed in dec. 20th, and my thesis at the beginning of march... 163 hours since last cigarette - I'm off the nicotine pads now, and everything is circling in front of my eyes... Think I will make something Italian for dinner tonight - Poulet au Vin maybe?! *** - | posted by Tommy on 1:19 PM ---ooo--- And now we're talking about Alternate Reality: Mars Exploration Rover-2003 mission! Click the "Sign Me Up" link to add your name! ---- And - uh uh uh! - I got my first reaction after opening my blog-related mail account (see out there to the right ---> ). Thanks, I will get back to you asap.....which in my case means, when I found the sources I'm looking for in the mess on my desk and CD's...:-) *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:12 AM ---ooo--- Wednesday, November 13, 2002 I'm back, about to kill for a cigarette! 138 hours and counting... ---- Isn't it funny how life makes you see weird connection here and there... Take for instance the site I mentioned earlier with the autotranslation - it turned out it was meant as a form of Alternate Reality Game, which I talked about in another occasion only two days later. Check out how the site looks like now. ---- It's raining....:-(...and I have to shop! YUCK! *** - | posted by Tommy on 12:16 PM ---ooo--- Monday, November 11, 2002 Found an interesting article about 'free choice' in online RP games on Game Studies - I want to read that today... ---- I'm mad, but recovering! It's now 86.5 hours ago I smoked my last cigarette - the abstinenses this time have been terrible ranging from horrible nightmares to waves of chemical depression... If I have to go through this every time I quit smoking, I won't even consider taking up the habit again! Wonder if there's a "Just-stopped-smoking" chat somewhere?! There must be! By the way - Nicotine chewing gum gives your lover a bad condition of flaming lips. Now you'll know that! *** - | posted by Tommy on 8:41 AM ---ooo--- Friday, November 08, 2002 Found a another little funny game - commercial, of course...: Kampen om den spildte tid (The battle of the wasted time), which is a Tetris-ish game... One problem with the game: They don't speed the game of, so it gets gradually more difficult - this meant that I had to loose on purpose yesterday, since my wrist started to act up... *** - | posted by Tommy on 11:01 AM ---ooo--- On allakhazam.com I found a list of polls realted to EQ - real interesting and definately worth to check out... Together with Nicholas Yeeinvestigations in EQ this might be an excellent basis for the empirical part of my thesis. *** - | posted by Tommy on 10:50 AM ---ooo--- Just found an interesting online mystery game - much in the style of The Beast (the online appendix to the movie A.I.) and Majestic: The search4e. Of course it requires money, but the start is for free and looks very promising. F.ex. click on Puzzle and get a little surprise (smirk smirk). It runs to sep. '03, so there should still be lots of time... Last year I wrote a semester project on "Alternate Reality Gaming", and it certainly looks like I (for once) managed to stay interested in a subject ;-) My friend Lisbeth was my advisor, which was a weird experience, but that's a completely different story. *** - | posted by Tommy on 10:43 AM ---ooo--- Wednesday, November 06, 2002 At my good friend Lisbeth's blog-site (she's a Ph.D at the school I'm attending; IT-University, Copenhagen) I found this link to a BBC-page: "Everquest fantasy offers real rewards". It looks cool - will check it out later. *** - | posted by Tommy on 3:44 PM ---ooo--- Yesterday I found a site through cloudmakers that could be translated with http://intertran3.tranexp.com Original text: Suddenly a black van with tinted windows pulled up outside my house. I ducked down as a woman and a man got out and went to the front door. When they knocked on it, I cursed myself, because I'd left it open. The woman called out my name and they went inside. I got out of the car and hid behind some bushes in a neighbors front yard...The woman had long black hair. It wasn't until about an hour after they'd gone that I found enough courage to venture out from behind the bushes. Auto-translated into Danish: Pludselig en neger godsvogn hos tinted vinduer hevet oppe udenpå mig hus. JEG and nede nemlig en kvinde og en menneskene fik helt igennem blev hen til den hoveddør. Hvor de bankede oven på sig, JEG bande selv, fordi I'd igen sig lukke op. Den kvinde alarmeret ud mig benævne og de blev i. JEG fik op fra den automobil og hid hale noget krat i en nabo forside plads...Den kvinde fik længe neger hår. Sig var ikke indtil omkring en time efter de vil borte at JEG oprette nok mod hen til tillade sig at ud bagfra den krat. Manually translated directly back into English: Suddenly a negro tram at tinted (untranslanted) windows (was) pulled up on me house('s outside). I duck (the animal) down exactly a woman and a humans got all through stayed towards the front door. How they knocked on themselves, I gang self, because I'd (untr.). That woman warned out me named and they stayed in. I received up from that car and there hid (untr.) tail some bushes in a neighbour frontside square...That woman got long time negro hair. Itself was not until around an hour after they were gone that I started up enough courage to allow itself to out from behind that bushes. *** - | posted by Tommy on 3:30 PM ---ooo--- Monday, November 04, 2002 I just came home from a nice weekend in Maastricht, that's why I haven't blogged for a while. I met a guy online, and over some tim ewe became good friends. Since we both live in The Netherlands (now!), and we both are gay in stabil relationships, we agreed to met on a little nice weekend - all four of us. Normally I would be all tensed and nervous about meetings like these, but it went so smooth. No one felt like having to come up with some sort of entertainment all the time (which I hate), and we all just enjoyed a kick-back weekend...much needed. Now I'm back, and finally getting started on my thesis! I guess a nice relaxing time was all I needed - thank you, Arold and Ed! ---- I'm looking at the things I should do today: Plant my newly bought plants (from Maastricht) on the balcony Empty the magazijntje (that's what we call the storage room), so the dry rack can stand in there (away from my cigarettes) Hang the wet clothes Do the dishes Play EQ I think I'll start from behind :-) ---- Thesis is going well - in the train I read a paper from Langdon Winner: "Who will we be in Cyberspace" about aplying the strategies of modernism to the age of digital media. He has a list of questions to ask, when you're concerned about how human relations form in a digital age. (quote)From that standpoint, as technological devices and systems are being introduced, it is important that those who care about the future of society to go beyond questions about the utility of new devices and systems, beyond even questions about economic consequences. One must ask: 1. Around these instruments, what kind of bonds, attachments, and obligations are in the making? 2. To whom or to what are people connected or dependent upon? 3. Do ordinary people see themselves as having a crucial role in what is taking shape? 4. Do people see themselves as competent, able to make decisions? 5. Do they feel that their voices matter in making decisions that will affect family, workplace, community, nation? 6. Do they feel themselves to be fairly treated? These question should be altered slightly when talking about living in EQ, but they are still good questions to ask, when I want to know how people feel about themselves and their surroundings in EQ - we'll see, when I get there :-) *** - | posted by Tommy on 4:12 PM ---ooo--- |
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