Easter
April 18th 2006 -
I’m going through a fairly dull literalist phase at the moment. No philosophy from me today. Today, I list things that I have done or seen. Browse away now, boredom-fleers.
It was a good Easter weekend. We ate much, watched Dr Who, played music (new tune for us: Black Umbrella, by Even), went to the movies (The World’s Fastest Indian) and watched DVDs (Saw 2, Oyster Farmer, several old episodes of Arrested Development). I drooled in anticipation of Guitar Hero.
I also did a bit of work. I wrote up a very short FF of Oyster Farmer (and will do one of Saw 2 some time.) I worked on the video delay line project a bit, and got it into a good working state. I went to golf on Saturday and did very poorly indeed (getting my worst score on that course), then went to archery, and did very badly as well (285, or thereabouts, thanks to problems with my anchor point). But then the instructors were very helpful, and I finished the day thinking I would probably do better the next time I went, which proved to be the next day. On Sunday, I took the video camera and laptop computer to archery, and gave the video delay-line a bit of a run. It went well – my change in anchor point suddenly clicked, and I could really see what I was doing thanks to the video delay, and I got my best ever score: 317 (54, 51, 50, 54, 54, 54).
Anna made creme caramel for the first time, and it worked well. They were extremely tasty, and I had to do much exercise on Monday night to stay under 86kg, thus being able to continue scoffing chocolate today.
Lexifab Says:
April 19th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Is Guitar Hero actually getting a release in Australia now? We’ve been slavering over it for ages, but Simon’s said it’s not available and if we ordered it from overseas we’d have to mod the PS2.
Of course, he might just have been saying that to push his insane Singstar agenda.
admin Says:
April 19th, 2006 at 10:29 am
It has been announced for an Australian release, which is nice, although they refuse to be more specific than “some time this winter.” I asked at an Electronics Boutique, and they said the tentative date was 1 August, but that this was unlikely to be the actual date.
As I understand it, the problem is getting rights for the music for Australia. They may also want to include some Australian content, which would be pretty awesome (if doing so didn’t hold up the release.)
I have also been tempted to go the modchip route. But I shall hold on. The anticipation is wonderful too.