So I installed Gears of War last week, but it turned out that my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400/2GB RAM/Go 7800 etc.), like its owner, is almost obsolete. So if you are like me, here are two excellent games to get rid of your gamer’s itch (and get back to work so that you can buy a new laptop) – Quest for the Crown and YHTBTR. Don’t miss the credits on YHTBTR!
Tag: fun
B(ack)log Links – Part One
I just took a look at my 'FOR BLOG' bookmarks folder and was amazed to see the number of pages (66) I have bookmarked during August, with the intention to write about them here, but never got the chance. So, in an attempt to cross that task from my TODO list, I'm posting some of them here (minus the planned commentary/discussion/blogging) and deleting the rest. They should have converted into 66 posts, but oh well!
- Neuroscience trying to explain déjà vu
- My Cortex is better than my CPU
- Lumosity.com has some games that (supposedly) improve your processing speed
- Boomshine – A 10 minute fun flash chain reaction game
- Nerves may run on sound
- Blue Brain is reinventing modern computing
- Enhancing your brain power by electricity – maybe they should use a shot of heavy music with this
- True AI before 2029?
- Nicotine is the wonder drug aka the secret of the Marlboro Man
- Nicotining – Smoking2.0
- Circadian rhythms – they haven't stopped me from working at night and sleeping during the day so far
- 3D foot measurement device – something I thought of a few years ago
- Removing TV, games and computers from children – I wish I could do this with my kid
- Pizza value for money calculator – We used to do that when ordering at the office 5 years ago
- Dark Side of the Uke – making Syd Barrett turn in his grave
- BOINC – is on my list of things to experiment with since 1999 (early SETI days) … maybe its turn will come in the next decade
- I just started teaching my son to handle a camera
- Top Ten of Programming Advice NOT to follow
- Ten programmers for the price of one (or in Pakistan's case, for the price of 0.1)
- What's your Google Quotient? (Mine is 9/10, what's yours?)
- Top 10 MMOs – Puzzle Pirates (Which I used to play seriously, and now play casually) is #8
- Dr. Bartle thinks I'm a KASE
- The Carl Sagan Cosmos animation – partly responsible for inspiring me towards a graphics based line of work
- The world celebrated Left-Handers Day this month – Left handed mouse pointers – and my recommended politically correct one
I need a break from all the copy/pasting now, and will have to split this post in two parts. So these are the things that have been using up my brain cycles this month. If you find any of the above things useful/fun/entertaining/offensive, do leave a comment so that I can justify spending the last hour or so on this.
I Built the Empire State Building
There this Indonesian Lotte Puzzle gum sold for Rs.10 (18 cents) these days which comes with two gum sticks and a cardboard/plastic model/puzzle pieces that my son really likes. Last week we got the Taj Mahal, this week it was the Empire State Building. There are no instructions (uh its a puzzle), so I saved some time by (secretly) cheating and made this:
I didn’t get my gum share though :-/