The timing was rather good; we had our meeting with the Rural Alberta Development Fund people this morning. I don't think they planned it, but they couldn't have planned it better.

I'm kind of glad I wasn't working today -- I'd have never heard the end of it.

Now I can just panic about my exam tomorrow.

Wow, so the game I made the graphics for is featured in like all my favourite blogs today:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/12/wiiware-lands-stateside-start-defending-those-castles/

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/05/12/wii-fanboy-review-defend-your-castle/

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/wiiware-impress.html

AND SOME NEWS SITES:

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11805

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24567406/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24572527/


So yeah... we are among the 6 launch titles for the WiiWare service which debuted today. We are competing against notable titles like Final Fantasy, another indie game called Lost Winds (which is fucking AMAZING, we've been playing it here at the office for like the last 3 hours) and a nintendo-made TV-Gameshow type game.

You can download DEFEND YOUR CASTLE for 500 wii points (or $5).

Wow what a reception... the paper never wrote an article about me ever coming back to town. Nice pics par!

/didn't RTFA

Hey Paras

Can I get your auotgraph???

I'll give you mine from my paper picture about a month ago :)

but you ahve more pics! Nicely done Dr.

Hey Par, looking very Doctorly in those pictures in the Edmonton Journal!

You're still looking for a distraction.

brand tags:

The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is.

You're looking for a distraction. I know. Here you go:

Chronotron. Apart from its copyright-suspect time-travelling "blue box", and the maddening nature of later levels, it's quite fun. And has successfully burned much of a "study" day for me.

I've got to start carrying this article around with me:

As long as we're discussing restaurants, allow me a quick word with the hardworking chefs at America's dining establishments. We really appreciate that you included a vegetarian option on your menu (and if you didn't, is our money not green?), but it may interest you to know that most of us are not salad freaks on a grim slog for nourishment. We actually enjoy food, especially the kind that tastes good. So enough with the bland vegetable dishes, and, for God's sake, please make the Gardenburgers stop; it's stunning how many restaurants lavish unending care on their meat dishes yet are content to throw a flavorless hockey puck from Costco into the microwave and call it cuisine. Every vegetarian is used to slim pickings when dining out, so we're not asking for much—just for something you'd like to eat. I'll even offer a handy trick. Pretend you're trapped in a kitchen stocked with every ingredient imaginable, from asiago to zucchini, but with zero meat. With no flesh available, picture what you'd make for yourself; this is what we want, too.

No worries. I'm back now. And tired. I hate moving.

oh....oops! thought you were back for geekfest last night!