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• Followed @lukwam lead on breakfast. Whole wheat roll instead of bagel though. I needed the bacon for energy today @grizzlebee! #
• Working late. #

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• Being stubborn #
• I generally have to worry more about infinite loops in conversations and dicussions than I do in my code. #
• Loathing workplace politics. #

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• Tire has been changed. Now eating pizza because I deserve it. #
• Wishing I had used iWork during my trial period to see if I’d like it. #
• Wondering if I’m already bored with Planetfall. #
• Re-discovering music I forgot I wrote. #

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This week’s interest/distraction is Interactive Fiction, read “text adventure games”.

It started this past weekend when for some reason I told Christine, “It’s dark. You might be eaten by a Grue.” She didn’t know what I was talking about, so I told her to look up Zork on Wikipedia. That resulted in me looking up ways to play these old games on the Mac. I’ve been using Zoom, which works well, looks very nice and has a nice full screen mode. For Windows there is Gargoyle.

We played a little bit of Zork but eventually were both tired and decided to go to bed. I was getting a little confused by the dungeon we were in anyways.

The next day I decided to give Planetfall a try and have been playing it on the train the last few days, even going as far as to map out the locations using NeoOffice Drawing.

I’ve also done some poking about with how to make IF using the Inform programming language. There’s a great IF development app for the mac called Inform 7. It also handles version 6 of the language, which is the the version I’ve been toying around with just a little. I honestly have 0 ideas for an adventure game and even less control of the English language. But it’s fun to mess around with.

It’s kind of refreshing to play a text adventure game and let my mind fill in the pictures.

• Iron Man was good! Seafood was ok. #
• Playing Planetfall using Zoom for Mac and making a map of it using NeoOffice. #
• Feeling a bit stressed out. You know it’s true when I start slinging the F word around. Now I get to go home and change a tire. Yay. #

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• Playing Zork 1 with Christine. What else are people doing on a Saturday night? #
• Lying in bed. I’m incredibly tired today and I don’t know why. #
• Eating at Legal Seafood. Then Iron Man. #

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• Just had a really disappointing meal from Taste of China in Tarrytown. Yuck. #

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• Feeling sleepy. #

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• Copied my old Time Machine drive to the new one. Did a back up. Getting rid of some large files I don’t need. Updating the Mac Mini G4. #
• Wondering when my parents will call about "the package". #
• Switching my parents. From PC to Mac, I mean. #

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• Bought my first terabyte drive. Split it into two partitions. One for video, one for Time Machine. Restoring old TM drive to the new one. #
• Setting up the replacement TiVo. #
• running late #

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