so what the hell have i been doing lately?

[rone]

Last Monday, i went to the Solaris 10 launch with my ex-partner in crime Tchie at the Tech Museum of Innovation.  Solaris 10 looks really good, especially compared to its predecessors; Sun claims you'll see a 20% increase in performance just by upgrading from 8 to 10.  Scott McNealy has really aged in the last few years; he looked a little hunched, even.

I've spent the last few days on jury duty call (found out this morning i was off scot free for a year, yay), so i threw my energy into cleaning the house and office, as well as tackling the huge amount of unfolded laundry in our room.  As a result of that, i called for the Great T-Shirt Cull of `04; verdict: one and a half grocery bags of T-shirts were consigned to oblivion (including my totally rad netrek shirt *sniff*).  It's not so bad; i just had to make space for new T-shirts (like mjg59's excellent "ESR STOLE MY CULTURAL HERITAGE").

Also, thanks to solipsistnation's alert, i picked up my copy of the Limited Edition of Sid Meier's Pirates!.  So i might be busy this long weekend when i'm not eating.

Comments

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

I tried to find a description of actual gameplay on their website but couldn't. Is this some sort of pirate-themed rework of Civilization?

Avast, ye cannot research "buggery on the high seas" because ye han't researched "flogging" and "rum" technologies yet. Yarr."

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. No, it's basically an update of the original Pirates! game. You sail the seas, capture ships, find treasure, defeat famous pirates, do work for island governors and woo their daughters.

[nyar.livejournal.com]

You haven't tried it yet? I want to know if it's just eye candy or not.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i've played it a bit. It offers a bit more than the old game, i think, but i only played the original a couple of times.

[dumplechan.livejournal.com]

Now if only they could shanghai Sid Meier onto the crew that makes Puzzle Pirates...then BOY HOWDY we could have quite a game.

My new trick in Puzzle Pirates is trading wood and sugar cane between ports to make money. You know...ARRRRRRRbitrage.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

SSC: I read ESR as "electron spin resonance". It would seem that i'm still a chem.geek.