Another year, another birthday. Time sure flies, its hard to believe given my current maturity level that I just turned 29.
Loralei was nice enough to organize all my friends together for a suprise party that night, and we all went out to lindenhoff for some german food and beer :) and played some german games later on.
Speaking of german games, Fandom II has been hit a couple of times recently for some new purchases. Jeremy picked up Around the world in 80 days, which is a solid title, and I think it will turn out to be a classic. it plays in under an hour, and has great strategy and mechanics, but isn't too complicated so you dont have to spend a lot of time agonizing over your turn, or learning the rules. I picked up a couple more card games, Bang!, and Sole Mio, along with a good 2 player game: gone fishing. and in the more hardcore section, Puerto Rico, which the box says takes between 90 and 150 minutes to play. Bang was a particular favorite when I played it, because of the hidden roles each player gets, and how gameplay progresses because of that.
So I've been hooked on lost lately. I downloaded all the old episodes and caught up with the series, so now i can watch the rest of it on wednesday nights and understand whats going on. I'm really suprised that this TV show has me this addicted. Nothing new on TV has captured my interest for quite some time. TV is usually devoid of any actual content, favoring crappy "reality" shows with shoddy, coached melodrama. or tepid sitcoms. worse still is the low budget TV series genre such as alias, or stargate, or relic hunter.
In internet news, google maps recently added satellite texture data to its already phenominal mapping and directions service. goodbye mapquest. my cousin is actually going down to work for google in california soon. sounds like a good plan, especially since theyve got so many good products now, google search, maps, picasa, blogger, etc.
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