Movie Monday #19: A Christmassy Movie

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Dec 212009
 

This is Spinal Tap poster

This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner’s gloriously good rockumentary started a 20+ year tradition.

Still, after all these years, a group of classmates from high school gathers for a movie once a year, on the eve before the christmas eve.

So far, so good. A single dud (The Nutty Professor), plenty of good movies, and a few masterpieces (Casino Royale, the Lord of the Rings movies).

I’ve missed one year – for Goldeneye my 39C fever proved too much.

And I’m definitely looking forward to this year’s movie.

Movie Monday #19: A Christmassy Movie

See It Sunday 20.12.2009: Winter

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Dec 202009
 

See It Sunday 20.12.2009: WinterToday has distributed some four-five inches of snow in Espoo, but the image is an older one. Didn’t have my camera out with me today, hence the reliance on an old photograph.

This is Salem, Massachusetts – in the morning after a heavy snowfall. The mostly unfocused white blobs on the right side of the picture are clumps of snow falling from the tree.

See It Sunday 20.12.2009: Winter.

Back in business

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Dec 192009
 

With a more traditional connection to the internet at home.

Musti 2, my N900 device, proved to be a good dog indeed, but it’s time to try to move on.

So far, from a one and a half foot distance from the ADSL modem, things are working well…

Commercial interactive fiction news

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Dec 162009
 
  • Jay is Games has a competition for single-room game.
  • Textfyre has released its second game, Shadow in the Cathedral, which seems much less kiddie-oriented than their debut. The news of a Silverlight-free interpreter is good – it seemed to have quite a few issues.
  • Malinche has released yet another game. But with no credible reviews available for the company’s games, I don’t have much incentive to investigate.

Empire tally

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Dec 152009
 

Empire logoThe annual year in review in Empire yielded a much higher result than a couple previous: 4/10. With Star Trek on the “definitely going to rent once the home theatre is up”, the result soon evolves to a nice flat 50%.

The list is not online, and somehow I managed to actually miss buying the magazine (further proof that early mornings are not good).

Movie Monday #18: Places to visit

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Dec 142009
 

Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring PosterPeter Jackson’s Middle Earth (or New Zealand, if that is more easily arranged).

The scenery in the gloriously beautiful trilogy is enough to attract me to criss-cross the country. Someday. Haven’t got closer than Australia thus far.

And even though Air Frodo is no longer in the news, the upcoming (sadly, no earlier than 2011) film is likely to kickstart a renaissance of Tolkien-related tourism.

Movie Monday #18: Places to visit.

12 Photos: December

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Dec 142009
 

This month’s picture of Pikku Huopalahti is darker, way darker than the one from November.

Despite the slightly earlier hour and quietly falling snow, the image approaches black.

The right side is black indeed, whereas the left is dominated by lit buildings. The most interesting section turns out to be the middle – where the lights of automobiles are strung together like a multi-colored string of pearls.

The sky has some color – the receding light on the left hand side is quite prominent in the image.

12 Photos: December

12 Photos: November

12 Photos: October

12 Photos: September

See you in a month.

12 Photos: December.

WFRP 3e

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Dec 132009
 

The new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is available at the FLGS, for a nice flat price of 100 euros.

Somehow I don’t think I’ll be picking this one up in any hurry.

Unless the first announced campaign for the new edition turns out to be a classic. From the initial description the product seems to be not too deeply integrated to one of the finest campaign worlds, so I’m not betting on this.

But as long as the deliciously good supplementary material stays available for the previous edition, there’s little to worry.

Yy kaa koo nee #001: The year you got your first computer

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Dec 132009
 

Yy kaa koo nee #001: The year you got your first computer1984. I’m pretty sure, wasn’t earlier, and definitely wasn’t later – I was already hooked on Infocom in December that year.

The first computer in the house was a Commodore 64.

The image is shamelessly snapped in Akateeminen, the bookshelves at the HQ are at an industrial-strength disorder.

Yy kaa koo nee #001: The year you got your first computer.

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