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the news in brief
Jan. 20th, 2008 11:29 amNot much to report at the moment, but report I shall.
Work this week's been ok. A lot of the project is a lot worse than it ever needed to be, and it was even compared negatively to a previous project that got canned, which isn't good. And some of the guys seem to have discovered a competitor that seems to do most of what our game does and a whole lot more besides. So things are going to be interesting as we approach the end of the project, probably along the lines of "we need to add about 10 new features". It could have easily been foreseen, but the people who should have done the foreseeing are sadly not experienced enough to have done so. Still, my side of things is going ok.
At home I've done very little but play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. It's an interesting game, with some frustratingly hard bits. No match for Thief in the stealth stakes however. When not computer gaming I've been reading a short book on Logic, which is slow going at times. I disagree with some of the stuff the author says, but I suppose that's to be expected when I approach it from a mathematical point of view and the subject is equally applicable to philosophy.
I've said it before, but this weather is just like summer: temperatures mild, rain 20 hours a day. It's a bit tedious really. Still, I prefer that to snow. It seems like when I was little, we had snow every year, and it sometimes lasted a few days. Now, it seems rare for it to settle on the ground at all, never mind remain overnight. Still, I suppose I am 0.7° of latitude further south than I was back then.
I got tickets for Primordial in London yesterday morning, so I'm looking forward to that in a few weeks' time. Anybody else going? (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
erishkigal?) I'm still half-contemplating seeing them again at Ragnarök Festival V in Germany, but I doubt that will happen.
Last night, I went to the pub to meet up with various student types before relocating to Rock City. Rock City was dead until about midnight; 12:00 is the new 10:30, apparently. The music in the mainstream room was surprisingly good compared to usual - as Allan said, "where's the emo?" Downstairs was a bit of a mess as they had the classic rock room mixed in with the metal and hardcore, so nobody really knew what was going on. And there's always at least one moron dressed in a basketball top and long shorts (sic) who needs to pace menacingly back and forth across the dancefloor. How on earth is that dancing? Did he see it on a video somewhere?
Anyway, I think I might have also got zapped by some sort of spooky EMP last night, as my phone lost half of its settings, and my key fob to the security gate stopped working. The second problem involved me having to kick it open, as I was toodrunk lacking in agility to get over the wall. I may have to resolve this problem quite shortly.
Oh, and I still don't have any extra shelving. I think I need to get some better cd storage and throw some other stuff away first, instead. I found out that the tip over in Lenton takes electrical goods for recycling/proper disposal, so at some point I need to send my TV and 15" CRT monitor over there (unless someone wants the latter, which I doubt). Maybe I'll throw in a couple of spare PC motherboards while I'm at it.
Work this week's been ok. A lot of the project is a lot worse than it ever needed to be, and it was even compared negatively to a previous project that got canned, which isn't good. And some of the guys seem to have discovered a competitor that seems to do most of what our game does and a whole lot more besides. So things are going to be interesting as we approach the end of the project, probably along the lines of "we need to add about 10 new features". It could have easily been foreseen, but the people who should have done the foreseeing are sadly not experienced enough to have done so. Still, my side of things is going ok.
At home I've done very little but play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. It's an interesting game, with some frustratingly hard bits. No match for Thief in the stealth stakes however. When not computer gaming I've been reading a short book on Logic, which is slow going at times. I disagree with some of the stuff the author says, but I suppose that's to be expected when I approach it from a mathematical point of view and the subject is equally applicable to philosophy.
I've said it before, but this weather is just like summer: temperatures mild, rain 20 hours a day. It's a bit tedious really. Still, I prefer that to snow. It seems like when I was little, we had snow every year, and it sometimes lasted a few days. Now, it seems rare for it to settle on the ground at all, never mind remain overnight. Still, I suppose I am 0.7° of latitude further south than I was back then.
I got tickets for Primordial in London yesterday morning, so I'm looking forward to that in a few weeks' time. Anybody else going? (
erishkigal?) I'm still half-contemplating seeing them again at Ragnarök Festival V in Germany, but I doubt that will happen.Last night, I went to the pub to meet up with various student types before relocating to Rock City. Rock City was dead until about midnight; 12:00 is the new 10:30, apparently. The music in the mainstream room was surprisingly good compared to usual - as Allan said, "where's the emo?" Downstairs was a bit of a mess as they had the classic rock room mixed in with the metal and hardcore, so nobody really knew what was going on. And there's always at least one moron dressed in a basketball top and long shorts (sic) who needs to pace menacingly back and forth across the dancefloor. How on earth is that dancing? Did he see it on a video somewhere?
Anyway, I think I might have also got zapped by some sort of spooky EMP last night, as my phone lost half of its settings, and my key fob to the security gate stopped working. The second problem involved me having to kick it open, as I was too
Oh, and I still don't have any extra shelving. I think I need to get some better cd storage and throw some other stuff away first, instead. I found out that the tip over in Lenton takes electrical goods for recycling/proper disposal, so at some point I need to send my TV and 15" CRT monitor over there (unless someone wants the latter, which I doubt). Maybe I'll throw in a couple of spare PC motherboards while I'm at it.
