Screenshots released today of Harley Quinn from Lego Batman: The Videogame, which means this is probably what the actual minifig will look like in a kit released later on this year. I like the head, but I still think my torso design is better. More screenshots at Shacknews. On a related note, I love Paul [...] » Read more

My brother-in-law and I have been playing chess by e-mail for the last few months. This has been less than optimal: we use the old style English notation rather than algebraic notation, and he sets up a real board while I use Apple Chess, so there’s always some transcription from mail to board. Invariably one [...] » Read more

I can’t claim credit for the original idea; someone else did a Star Wars themed version over on RPGnet, in this thread. I just thought Kill Bill was a better fit. Click image for the full version (1287 x 765, 313Kib). Incidentally, crazy42’s quote is exactly what was mailed to my Nintendo DS while playing Final [...] » Read more

November is over, and with it go my seasonal doldrums. I was mildly disgruntled at work for half the month for all the usual reasons, but it is now December, vacation is coming up, and I am so over it. Any further dwelling on this topic would lead to rants of the sort that [...] » Read more

Back in grade ten (my worst year of high school), I started playing Dungeons and Dragons with some fellow misfits from CS 12. During the very first session, and if I recall correctly during the very first battle, our dungeonmaster Graham saw fit to unleash a shambling mound upon us. Those of you [...] » Read more

So after the couple of movies left in the contract, Pixar will part ways with The Mouse. I guess I was as surprised as anyone, even taking into account that this will have zero effect on my job. It’s ironic how the last blog entry was me being all chirpy about work, [...] » Read more

Spent last evening and all of today’s working hours tracking down one little niggling, yet painfully catastrophic, bug. Ugh. Forgot to post this, the results of taking the “What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Am I?” test a couple of weeks ago: [...] » Read more

Some of you may fondly recall the “gold box” Dungeons and Dragons computer games put out under the SSI label during the eighties, including the original Pool Of Radiance. If so, whatever you do, do not buy Pool Of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. Unfortunately, I did, and I deeply regret it – that’ll [...] » Read more

Been a while, for which I can blame being busy with work, having some computer downtime, and find other more recreational things to do. Work for the last couple of weeks has mainly been dealing with the pending software release. That’s really it in a nutshell, but as they say the devil’s in [...] » Read more

Among other time wasting activities this week has been getting reacquainted with the PDA. While upgrading AvantGo (and at the same time discovering that I had been for months killing my batteries syncing at 9600 baud instead of 57600), came across a good Salon story about the behaviour of people obsessed with EverQuest, and [...] » Read more