In a nostalgic mood after writing my last post, I just purchased Sam & Max Hit the Road on eBay. My friend Damian also recently told me about the new series of Sam & Max games that Telltale Games is working on. Looks like they’ve already released five episodes, at $8.95 a pop. The episodic video game seems like a very interesting business model. I haven’t been following the development, but according to Damian, people who know games are watching these types of experiments closely to see how they fare.
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
- I’ve been having another bout of insomnia but I’m at Remedy right now testing out their Deep Sleep tea. The owner of Remedy claims that she won’t drive after drinking it.
- There’s a new Seattle Transit blog, for all the geeks who want to follow the plans for the new light rail system and other developments. As a friend of mine put it, it seems that every transportation project in Seattle causes “the largest controversy Seattle has seen since the last big transportation controversy” (see The Viaduct Debacle and The Monorail Debacle for just two such recent examples). Personally I can’t wait for light rail and am very excited every time I drive by SeaTac and get to check out the progress on the rail line down there (and the signs that say “Light rail to the airport in 2009.” We’ll see when they really finish, but it’s exciting stuff nonetheless).
- Kenny and I are closing in on the finish of our Thai Tom NCAA bracket. The final round may turn out to be a sleeper since Swimming Rama and Panang Curry will duke it out in the semi-finals. My officemate suggested that we may want to reseed, but I think we’ll just keep it as is and see what happens. Hopefully the current schedule won’t hurt our Nielsen ratings. :)
- Nine (yes nine) years after purchasing it, I finally played Grim Fandango from beginning to end (I guess I can thank the aforementioned insomnia for that one). It was great, don’t know why it took me so long. There are a few big leaps (nothing too much worse than using the banana with the metronome in MI2), but overall it was an enjoyable game with an engaging story and a particularly unique style – certainly the first Aztec/Day of the Dead/Art Deco/film noir video game I’ve ever played. It’s too bad the adventure game genre is dead…
I think the tea is starting to do its thing. Maybe I’ll get to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight…
To get myself through the week, I bought some Passover-friendly snacks for work like fresh fruit, carrot sticks and pre-made salads (rabbit food), as well a big bag of TJ’s trail mix (squirrel food). It’s a good trail mix – lots of yummy things like cashews, dried cherries, dried cranberries – but it suffers from the same problem as any other trail mix: not all ingredients are created equal. Clearly the dried pineapple chunks are the gems in the bag. I really tried to consume all of the components of the trail mix at an equal rate, but somehow I have half a bag left and no more pineapples. And now I seem to have lost interest in the trail mix (perhaps especially so now that Passover is finished and I can consume my normal office snacks of cereal and granola bars again).
Why not just purchase a bag of dried pineapple chunks instead, you ask? Great idea. TJ’s used to stock such a wonderful thing, but it hasn’t graced their shelves for many months now. It seems to have gone the way of the turkey burgers (which came and went, and came and went, and came… and now seem to have disappeared again).
(I lead a very exciting life, don’t I?)
Honestly, I don’t even understand what this “as usual” business is all about. This has happened once before.
Although I was excited to be able to tell Kenny that “our postman was going postal on us.”
Of course we also got a lecture from the postal worker at the post office when we went to pick up our mail. And out of the big crate of mail that he handed us, less than 10 pieces were useful – the rest we recycled before leaving the post office. We need a spam filtering service for snail mail…