Very busy with System Design Project at the moment.
Archive for April, 2003
post a commentAnyone who has read Neuromancer by William Gibson will just find this weird, very weird.
Well, he said it would happen but I didn’t want to belive him. It was nice to be inside his head for a while, especially as there is not much written about him as a person. Read about it here on his official boards.
I’ve just finished reading Pattern Recognition as well and quite enjoyed it. It is a lot less ‘gritty’ than his previous works, with its basis in modern reality and this does make it very different. He touched on so many areas and left numerous great characters unexplored so I can’t wait for the sequel.
Ooooo, an entry in the gaming category.
Valve have finally admitted that they are working on Half-Life 2 (like they weren’t going to make a sequel, come on!). E3 is just around the corner and they will undoubtly steal the show. A few magazines had some screenshots under strict emabrgo, but as usual they were leaked onto the web.
Looks like I’ll need a new computer this year…
P.S. I apologise for the entry below, I was very tired.
We were out last night for flatmate Petes’s 22nd birthday, crawled in at 1 am with bag of plasticy doughnuts purchased from 24 hour shop. ‘Awoke’ 8 hours later feeling not that great. Downed some ibuprofen, finished off doughnuts and went to work, blinking at the morning sun, remaining blister of ibuprofens stuffed in back pocket. Summery, easy and quiet day at work, made better by starting Pattern Recognition and taunting Garry the security guard. Pattern Recognition is good so far and Gibson’s style makes me remember reading Neuromancer for the first time. It was on the train coming up to visit Edinburgh University for the first time, back when I was still doing A-Levels. Its like an old friend visiting for tea and recalling his stories, but with style. Got unhealthy kebab on the way home, with all the extras plus kitchen sink, and chillis. Came home, made coffee, ate kebab, drank coffee. Remembered have handin tomorrow, groaned. Attempted to do some work on it, just read PR instead. Liver is still trying to wash out last nights poisons, decide to sleep instead and give it a hand
good night
First saw this when we were watching the Grand Prix last weekend and its very, very well done. It seems to have hit the newspapers recently and they claim is was done in one take. Even if that take was the 606th one. Its advertising the new Honda Accord and consists of lots of bits of the car interacting with each other, cartoon style, in a huge chain of events. Its hard to describe, you’ll have to watch it for yourself.
update
It seems the actual advert only used one small amount of CG, pretty impressive. Even that was just to join the two halves together.
Yes thats right folks, its “add another thing to the side bar” time!
Now in a always repsectful hommage to Meg over at notsosoft.com I add my picture of the ‘moment’.
I made it ‘moment’ so as not to put any kind of lame time constraints on it (i.e. I can be lazy).
Back again!
see how quick that was!