Raithe

Being slowly driven crazy by this project thing. I've been working on the "its an unpaid project that we want to develop, so we're pushing it along and shining it up and when we get it spick and span and really neat, then when we're totally confident on everything we can send it in to the powers above, and then hopefully turn it into a paying project where we can get serious" assumption. Then as a sideline to a phone call about it this morning, I find out its actually got a deadline and its currently being potentially late for it.. For various reasons, one of the key folk involved in the beginning of it, now works somewhere else. And whilst he can spotcheck stuff to a degree, he can't actually directly comment or provide information because that could make things very messy legally. So we get basically "um, yeah, somethings wrong about this.". We've got some folk at a university (professors and such) who have been running the numbers because they're interested in the problem, and they're all "here are the modelling stuff, its reasonable-ish". And frankly "reasonable-ish" just fills me with confidence. Especially if we're hanging our professional reputation on the line with it and the analysis based on said modelling and numbers generated.. I can't actually get some people on the phone to talk about this and look at the problems, the clocks ticking along, and up until very recently, I've only been working on the outskirts of the issue, so I don't have a total and full grasp on everything. There's one group that might have some information, but I don't actually know anyone there, or at least I have a name of someone there but no real connection. As said, the main guy they'd know no longer works here, the other guy they might know is off-the-grid and I haven't been able to get hold of... So ringing them up myself and saying "hey, I'm so and so that you've never heard of, I'm working with x company that you might remember, and the guy you did know isn't working here anymore.. However, you did x and y for him back then, and we've used some of it in this, can you help us with this thing here, and yeah, I'm fuzzy on some of the details of what I'm talking about.." would not I feel make the best impression.... Oh yes, and its raining. And the thunder keeps scaring the dogs. But at least I was able to sort out mom's medications and drugs for the next 7 days.. So I can say some small fragment has actually been achieved today. Joy.

The Hitman film wasn't too bad. I'd rate it up there as one of the better game-to-film adaptions.

On more general movie news.. For the upcoming Assasin's Creed adaption to the big screen..

Hm, on the movie related news.. Ernest Borgnine has passed away today.

Apparently, they were designed as part of an outdoor advertisement which won the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Lions 2004 Award for Outdoor and Print.

As long as they remembered to pillage and then burn... Or as the Pirate King is fond of saying the "the ships go down and the women yield.. or is that the other way around?"

A Nice little ode to Nikola Tesla... For the remainder (which is a big chunk) Why Nikola Tesla was the Greatest Geek who ever lived! So many people forget about the bad side of Edison...

Turn it into a strategy game? Mass Alert 4: Command and Reaperise?

King has a lot of interesting ideas, but his books can vary incredibly wildly in the quality of the writing.

For one of those things that's been lurking around..

But it's usually entertaining poo

Heh. Exactly how many studios has Activision closed this generation? A short look at Activision's history of studio closure...

Well, the old Koenigsegg CCX on Top Gear.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svxRpqeqFRY Edit: And of course, after that, Koenigsegg actually went and put a spoiler on it.. And let them have it again. (Now the spoiler is standard)

I really should try getting back into my playthrough of New Vegas with all of the DLC... Hm, damn, thinking I was just starting Dead Money when I got interupted by life, and then hm, Deus Ex, then TOR... That's a fair few months ago now. I haven't picked up anything new in awhile, so pretty much going with regular doses of TOR as my only gameplay the last couple of months.

The Higgs Boson walks into a catholic church. Priest says "What are you doing here?" Higgs Boson says "You can't have mass without me"

I have to admit, if its something you can see yourself playing for 200 hours minimum, looking at it as a "Euro an Hour" isn't that bad an investment.

With it of course.. Actually, haven't Koenigsegg put the top gear wing on all models since then?

Trying to push a more upbeat mood for the day.. so I've been listening to "A Very Scary Solstice",.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgg51dNeCk

I have a yearning for a greasy burger. Which I might give in to. Hilton bacon burger? Hmm. There's a kebab shop just down the road that does an amazingly unhealthy but darn tasty "super-burger" - just over 3/4 pounds of meat (that you hope is beef), cheese, onions, assorted salad-type between the layers..

Trying to ponder what exactly has me in the mood to put Clint Mansell's score of "The Fountain" on loop and get quietly drunk today. Not actually doing that, but that seems to be the lurking urge loitering in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTPNAF2wsiA

On the one hand, I'm tempted by the classic that is the E-type Jag.. or, not a supercar, but the other classic I absolutely adore from a distance is the Rolls Royce Phantom 2.. But if we're talking modern day.. Koenigsegg CCX. For what looks like sheer fun.

Also, the structure of time was an interesting showing. The potential developments and fallout over x years in a specific locale based on choices you made.. If it had just been pushed along a bit more .. but again, it was "idea conception rather then what actually got built".