On April 28th, 2003 we signed a contract for a new deck. Not a normal deck mind you, but a top of the line vinyl deck. PVC that wouldn’t splinter, burn or need any maintenance beyond being hosed down occasionally. According to the contract it would installed in “2-4 weeks, completed in 2-4 days”. We Read More …
Month: June 2003
War does strange things to people
When watching war movies you’ll often see people behave in very strange ways. Behavior that flies in the face of the reality around them. It seems that people reach a threshold of trauma where they break and just cling to any normal seeming activity even though it makes no sense in the current cirumstances. A Read More …
Online Gaming
I’ve been thinking about what I like in online games. I started, with a lot of others, my first foray into Massively Multi Player Online Role Playing Games with Ultima Online. Its style of graphics and incredible lag just didn’t do much to interest me. Then along came EverQuest. I played EQ for a long Read More …
Planetside – The first Weekend.
Last Thursday Bob twisted my arm. He wanted us all to buy and play Planetside. I’d tried the beta briefly and didn’t really get into it much. It didn’t help that the servers were crashing a lot and there is a learning curve involved in the game. I had decided I wasn’t really interested in Read More …