Visiting Maps

Borrowed from jenndolari's post:

create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide

create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide

How about you?

Love You to Death (Type O Negative)

The Host Of Seraphim (Dead can Dance)

Bugger, looks like I'm stuck on a YouTube jag....

...ever since we changed ISPs, Youtube videos play a lot smoother!

Tainted Love (Coil)

He he he - I'm feeling demented!

Also worth checking out: Other versions of "Tainted Love"! and At the Heart of it all.

Alpha - Vangelis

I used to listen to an awful lot of Vangelis in the late 70s. Favourites were Heaven and Hell and Albedo 0:39 albums, though Spiral was the classic. That was long before Chariots of Fire, and Bladerunner made him ultra popular.

Others to watch/listen to: pulsar spiral mix (though, wtf! with the graphics) and Flashback tribute video mix. Yeah yeah I know, sounds tinny now, but without musicians like Vangelis, Eno and Kraftwork, there'd probably be less of what came after.

Psycho Killer (David Byrne)

Lucky last before I start cleaning the house:

Not your "bog standard" version of Psycho Killer either! Talking Heads had a big influence on me in the late 70s and early 80s.

Also worth viewing:

Girls on My Mind 
I stole a sound bite from that song...
   People say that I am crazy
   People say that I am strange
   But I don't care about what people say
   Cause they can't see inside my brain
...for an old website of mine
From the same album as Now I'm Your Mom 
(and I wish they had a video for that!).

Psycho Chicken
Parody by the Fools (but not the "Red Faces" version).

SF Question

mycosys wanted to know what the largest/best armed spaceship/weapon would be with teleporting ability. We looked up Spaceship Dimensions but it wasn't really clear. I thought maybe either a Borg Cube or an Ori Mothership, but there may be others I'm unaware of.

Got any suggestions?

Where's the Democracy?

Just been reading a web comic called Letters to a Wild Boar (very arty), and really liked this page. Actually, after looking at the source of that page (I was too lazy to type the title out again, so I copied it from the <title>) I found The Newbsoft Network. Not sure what to make of it.

Lux?

I was playing around with something called del.icio.us and came across a reference to a computer game called Lux Delux which is some sort of Risk type game. Anyway, it has "over 400 maps" and when I had a look, found this:

Um, well what can one say?

Well that was odd...

Had a phone call from someone whose identity I had no idea.

They knew Kevin, and apparently they know me, but I'm none the wiser who it was. They chatted for 45-60 minutes on the phone and after Kevin suggested that it might be nice to meet them sometime for a coffee, immediately organised that meet for tonight in Edgeworth!

Huh?

There was no way I wanted to go out today if I could avoid it. I needed a "stay at home day", or I would be very cranky tomorrow.

Board Game Geekiness

Gasp, just discovered BoardGame Geek!

In particular, I was looking for information about a game called Conquest that I played once with my cousins in the early 70s. I found it, and also all sorts of interesting links like DIY, Customized or Homemade Games (golly, I used have copies of Subbuteo) and what looks like a cool games company in the Netherlands called Cwali.

I remember a lot of GDW games I used to own as well, including Belter, Battle for Moscow (now "public domain/freeware" so you can download PDF and other files and make a copy!) and Citadel:the battle of Dien Bien Phu (the only game I can think of where units had an infinite movement allowance along roads).

Think I'll have a "hunt and peck" session at this site.

Click to show your support for a new publication of Dune... The Spice must flow!

Golly, those were the days. I remember playing play-by-mail games, both Diplomacy and Flying Buffalo stuff; of getting Strategy & Tactics by S.P.I., and Conflict Magazine by Simulations Design Corporation; and all those Avalon Hill games I had. I still a complete collection of Games & Puzzles (anyone else remember Hexagonal Chess?). Of course I sold most of them when I left Perth. Just didn't have the room to store them, and just didn't mix in wargaming circles any more.

Free Games!

Yes - games obsession again - it's "out of the box"!

Check out Games That Are Free To Print and Play at Boardgames Geek (PocketCiv and Hoyuk  look cool). Also:

• 18xx Info Page (about Railway Building games);
• The Board Gamesbook (nice links);
• Mysterious (as in in French) games at NEUROLUDIC (actually, some have English translations); and
• not one,  not two, but eight games based on Joss Whedon's Firefly on the Official Firefly Unofficial Games List (or maybe over at FIREFLYFANS.NET).