Another Year
Posted on February 27th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
I haven’t been here for a while, but I am still alive, I want to tell my dedicated readers that (plural, just in case). Well I am again sticken by Writer’s Laziness, there are so many things I need to do but I haven’t done it yet, and I vow to complete them by this year. I got a second version of my book cover, this probably wont be the last revision. It kept giving me “Heavenly Sword” vibe, and I was not the only one who noticed. I can’t complain much about the cover, and I still haven’t reviewed my manuscript for the 100th time (hopefully the final review).
I am glad I sold all my stocks in december, all by a stroke of luck. I thought I was going to use it all for downpayment for a house, which I did put down an offer, but the bank never got back to me. I haven’t looked at houses since, which is one of those tasks I need to do this year, is to find a place I call my own so I can decorate it like a medeival dungeon (just kidding). I slowly bought back stocks recently (mostly from the Solar energy sector), but they have mostly been losing trades (hay I ain’t the god of stocks). I didn’t sell my apple, and it became rotten. But the following look damn cool:
I started looking for a new job, I even found one. It paid me more than 20% of my current salary, but I turned it down, for many reasons. It felt like turning down free sex from a hot woman (okay it actually doesn’t, because I never turn down sex). I am not sure if it was a right move, but maybe in a few months I would be jobless again, maybe I could just write. But I don’t believe in free will anyway, so I didn’t believe i actually made a choice. I went to more interviews, and some I do really badly on. Eventually I got better at the technical questions. It wasn’t because I became a better engineer, it’s just because I ran across all the possible questions and eventually they start repeating themselves. If you like IQ questions and you read a lot of them eventually you can answer them all in the world, it isn’t because you have higher IQ. I guess that’s the difference between intelligence and wisdom. The task list keeps piling up.
Here is a really cool screenshot I took from playing Space Quest 6. While I am by no means recommending the game, what happened in this scene was simply awesome (and yes, you’d have to have been there). I came across a program called DosBox (a dos emulator) which enabled me to play a lot of old classic games. I replayed some great classics like Conquest of the LongBow, Gabriel Knight 1 and 2 (It’s insane how good the Beast Within is, being a game with real actors.., even while comparing to the excellent voice work from Tim Curry on GK1), which got me to get Jane Jansen’s novel Dante’s Equation (very complicated), which I have been reading on and off when I have time. I played Simon the Sorceror 1 and 2, and Discworld, which contained great british humor, if that floats your boat. The past month has been mostly adventure games for me. I played Nelly Cootalot, a winner of the AGS 2007 awards, which was one of the greatest game ever, with humor that reminded me of Monkey Island. I played Still Life, which had great atmosphere like the movie Seven. I played Professor Layton and the Curious Village on the DS, which can tease and churn your brain cells to their limit. I enjoyed the game, more so than Apollo Justice: Ace Attourney, which I had been eagerly waiting after the excellent new case of Phoenix Wright 1, but it more than disappointed me, filled with plot holes and poor design choices. That’s about all I have to say for now. Considering how much other stuff I need to do, I need to stop playing games. But I can’t.
I am glad I sold all my stocks in december, all by a stroke of luck. I thought I was going to use it all for downpayment for a house, which I did put down an offer, but the bank never got back to me. I haven’t looked at houses since, which is one of those tasks I need to do this year, is to find a place I call my own so I can decorate it like a medeival dungeon (just kidding). I slowly bought back stocks recently (mostly from the Solar energy sector), but they have mostly been losing trades (hay I ain’t the god of stocks). I didn’t sell my apple, and it became rotten. But the following look damn cool:
I started looking for a new job, I even found one. It paid me more than 20% of my current salary, but I turned it down, for many reasons. It felt like turning down free sex from a hot woman (okay it actually doesn’t, because I never turn down sex). I am not sure if it was a right move, but maybe in a few months I would be jobless again, maybe I could just write. But I don’t believe in free will anyway, so I didn’t believe i actually made a choice. I went to more interviews, and some I do really badly on. Eventually I got better at the technical questions. It wasn’t because I became a better engineer, it’s just because I ran across all the possible questions and eventually they start repeating themselves. If you like IQ questions and you read a lot of them eventually you can answer them all in the world, it isn’t because you have higher IQ. I guess that’s the difference between intelligence and wisdom. The task list keeps piling up.
Here is a really cool screenshot I took from playing Space Quest 6. While I am by no means recommending the game, what happened in this scene was simply awesome (and yes, you’d have to have been there). I came across a program called DosBox (a dos emulator) which enabled me to play a lot of old classic games. I replayed some great classics like Conquest of the LongBow, Gabriel Knight 1 and 2 (It’s insane how good the Beast Within is, being a game with real actors.., even while comparing to the excellent voice work from Tim Curry on GK1), which got me to get Jane Jansen’s novel Dante’s Equation (very complicated), which I have been reading on and off when I have time. I played Simon the Sorceror 1 and 2, and Discworld, which contained great british humor, if that floats your boat. The past month has been mostly adventure games for me. I played Nelly Cootalot, a winner of the AGS 2007 awards, which was one of the greatest game ever, with humor that reminded me of Monkey Island. I played Still Life, which had great atmosphere like the movie Seven. I played Professor Layton and the Curious Village on the DS, which can tease and churn your brain cells to their limit. I enjoyed the game, more so than Apollo Justice: Ace Attourney, which I had been eagerly waiting after the excellent new case of Phoenix Wright 1, but it more than disappointed me, filled with plot holes and poor design choices. That’s about all I have to say for now. Considering how much other stuff I need to do, I need to stop playing games. But I can’t.
