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Lord of the Days of Rogues
J:
On Saturday Kory drove me up to the Days
of Knights game store in Delaware, where we met Chris and played some
game I can't remember the name of right now, but it had to do with placing
pieces on a map of old Europe and scoring for higher concentrations of
pieces in various spots. We also played Odin's Ravens (a light two player
race game that I enjoy a lot, lately), Hunters and Gatherers (the Carcassonne
"prequel"), and a cool game Kory is designing. We ate an excellent dinner
at a new Lebanese place right next door to the store.
Meanwhile
Gina went to the movies with a bunch of friends. They saw the latest Lord
of the Rings release at the Uptown theater in DC, a kind of famous old
movie theater with a big curved screen and balcony seats. I still haven't
seen the film, which is OK; I don't mind waiting till the crowds die down.
The
next day we went to the drum jam at the New Deal Cafe. I think the drum
people of Greenbelt plan to jam the third Sunday of every month. I found
a microphone for my dijeridu. Dorian insisted on "throwing in a little
reverb" on the amp, which sounded pretty cool, especially when we mic'd
the frog
(a little wooden percussion instrument that Marlene gave us) and Paul's
orange beer barrel. We got some neat foresty sounds from combinations with
me whistling through the dij and Dorian playing the frog. The frog quickly
became the hit of the evening. We had a low turnout of players this week,
because some of them were rehearsing for Izolda's CD, to be released soon
-- stay tuned! Plenty of spectators showed up, though, and they even applauded
sometimes! I saw a girl dancing to our beat, in the back near the couches.
I received a few compliments on my dijeridu sounds. It felt great to hear
my dij when the drums played.
Renee
lent us a tape of the first six or more Coupling
episodes. Coupling, a BBC sit-com, is quite funny and has clever
plots, usually multiple subplots woven together. I think Renee said Coupling
is like a British Friends, but with more sex. I'm impressed with
the show-to-show character development.
In
between filling half my mind with TV mush, I'm filling the other half with
iRogue, a PDA game that is very close to the classic Unix time-waster.
I can't get enough of it; it's a good example of a great computer game.
Even though the graphics, if you can call primitive ascii symbols "graphics,"
iRogue
goes to my top computer games list because:
-
It has
a turn based structure, but doesn't feel turn based.
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It has
a good system of small rewards.
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It is
repeatable; every game is different.
-
It's hard,
I mean really hard to win, but still entertaining.
-
iRogue
is freeware, and open source, too!
G:
So, when Kory got John to go to Delaware, he dropped Jenny off with me,
and when they left, we took Booda for a long walk. We got back around 2
and went to the Berwyn Cafe for lunch, which we both enjoyed. We made it
back home around 3, expecting Stacy and Chrisi to show up shortly thereafter
for Booda's other walk. They showed up close to 4, and we went on another
long one, over an hour, starting just two hours from the end of the first
one. But do you think Booda minded?
Later,
Craig and Terri picked up Jenny and I to go see LOTR: The Two Towers at
the Uptown. Jenny banged her knee jumping out of the car on Connecticut
Ave. and had to use me as a crutch to the theater. Gary met us there. The
place was packed, but we managed to find a set of three seats right in
front of a set of two seats all the way on the left hand side of the theater.
The seats were very cushy. We could see the screen well enough but sometimes
people and things looked distorted from the curve and the angle.
Jenny
and I ran into Constantia in the restroom before the show, she was there
to see it for the fourth time in that theater, and I don't know how many
times altogether. I don't really get it because I don't think Fozzie is
in this movie. ;) But I told John I would see it again with him, I liked
it and there is plenty to look at.
Afterwards
we went across the street to Sala Thai. Thai is my favorite kind of (restaurant)
food, and Terri had never had it! I think she liked it, but not as much
as I did. I used to always get vegetarian pad thai, and I've had it taste
incredible at times, but not so much lately. So at some point I switched
to curries (with coconut cream in the sauce), and I can't get enough of
them. I wish there was more than one Thai restaurant in our immediate area.
J:
[Errata - added 2003/01/16: Constantia wrote to say she has seen Fellowship
a total of 11 times in theaters, 3 or 4 of them at the Uptown, and Towers
3 times, once at the Uptown. Also, from the text it may seem that Kory
dragged me off to Days of Knights, which is not the case -- I went willingly
and enthusiastically, especially since Kory did all the driving.]
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