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Happy Endings

April 21, 2011 Family / Food / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Television
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Just fin­ished the first class in the NERT course. (More on that later.)

As I walked to the bus stop, I made an impromptu detour at Bi-​Rite Cream­ery, which I had not been back to since Chi Ba and Mike E came to town. Tried the Cof­fee Sun­dae this time, and it was awe­some. I’m a sucker for tof­fee bits. A happy end­ing to a good day.

Oh, and speak­ing of happy end­ings, any­one watch that new show? It’s a new sit­com about a group of young friends. (In fact, the girls seem to have a 1 – 1 cor­re­spon­dence to the girls of Friends.) The twist is that this show starts with Rachel leav­ing Ross at the altar. I picked it up for Elisha Cuth­bert, but the chick from Scrubs is also pretty good. Daman Wayans seems so mel­low, it’s weird. The other folks don’t stand out much to me one way or another.

Before Biohazard

March 22, 2011 Downloads / Family / Games / Post-A-Day 2011 / Stories / Video Games / Videos
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There was D/​Generation!

As you can see from this teaser, you play a courier who starts on a rooftop and must deliver a pack­age to a sci­en­tist 10 floors away. And there are var­i­ous secu­rity sys­tems and escaped bio-​engineered mon­sters between you and your goal.

I was read­ing an arti­cle about retro games yes­ter­day when a ran­dom EGA screen­shot of some iso­met­ric game reminded me of an old game Chi Ba and I used to play at Cau Ba’s house the sum­mer we watched Michael L and Andy L together.

I remem­ber being very impressed with the graph­ics since I was so used to side-​scrolling plat­form­ers, and also quite frus­trated by the dif­fi­culty of the game. I don’t think Chi Ba and I ever man­aged to beat the game that sum­mer, and I for­got about it after­wards. (Thanks to XKCD for remind­ing me of the title!)

Appar­ently, it is aban­don­ware now, so I might give it another go. Below is a metic­u­lous play through video which should solve every puz­zle in the game except one, for which there is no known solu­tion online. (I have not watched this yet.)

Secret Santa 3.0

January 4, 2011 Family / Post-A-Day 2011
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Three years ago, my fam­ily (mostly the cousins, but some of the aunts and uncles as well) started a “Good Enough” Secret Santa game. The idea is that we would each make a wish­list of up to five items, and they could be as extrav­a­gant or out­ra­geous as we could imag­ine. We’ve had peo­ple wish for trop­i­cal islands, pri­vate jets, uni­corns, and more. Then, when names are drawn, you could only spend a max­i­mum of $5 on the gift(s) for your Secret San­tee, and include a note explain­ing why your gifts were good enough. For instance, some­one who asked for a sports car might get a Match­box car from a Happy Meal.

There’s always a cou­ple of San­tas who “cheat” the price limit and actu­ally get wish­list items (Dong Ha got her 7 jeans the first year, and Dang Quang got his motor­ized scooter last year), but that’s OK. We give each other gifts out­side of the Secret Santa gifts any­way, and I always looked at this game as a way to flex my oft-​neglected cre­ative muscles.

This year, though, I was a bit dis­heart­ened to find that par­tic­i­pa­tion had dropped, but we held a round any­way. Then I was even more sad­dened to find out that a lot of the gifts were sent out late. There are always some great “good enough” gifts given each year (I was really proud of my crotchet purse for Chi Be the first year, Mike E’s gift to Gio Linh last year was so clev­erly tied together, and Dong Ha’s gift was a great mix for Chi Ba’s tough list this year) but per­haps it’s time to retire this tradition.

Or maybe, to go Hol­ly­wood on this, it’s time for a reboot.

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