Posted by rae in
entertainmentat 9:11 pm on Saturday, 31 July 2004
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It seems I have become addicted to the game
Tigris & Euphrates, by
Mayfair Games.
When I first saw it at a gaming night at our place, I thought it was too complicated.
The main complication is that players are *not* associated with one of the four colours (black, red, blue and green).
Rather, players are associated with a design (urn, goat, bow and lion), and try to play as many tiles of each colour as possible.
Your score is the lowest number of tiles you have of any colour.
This means you want to keep the numbers as balanced as possible.
If you only have 2 black tiles, your score is 2, not matter how many more tiles you have of other colours.
There is an
“
Artist Expansion“,
which introduces another colour — yellow — into the equation.
It looks interesting mostly because it makes 2-player games feasible.
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Posted by rae in
familyat 9:24 pm on Monday, 26 July 2004
Ronnie, Luisa, Rita, Jo, Nic and Michael
We spent another week up near Wasaga Beach from July 10th through 17th.
We went to the same cottage we’ve gone to for over ten years, and the weather was pretty good!
front: Michael, Ronnie & Daniel;
middle: Michelle, Luisa, Ross & Peter;
back: Tom, Laura & Jon
We spent one day at
Peter and Laura’s
cottage while
Michelle,
Tom, Daniel and Ross were up visiting.
We played badminton and swam out to the raft.
I had to piggy-back Ronnie to the raft because he didn’t like the plants in the water.
Greg, Luisa and Sharon
We also had a chance to have Greg and Sharon over with their family.
We don’t get to see Greg and Sharon very much.
Raising young kids can eat a lot of your time, that’s for sure!
Sharon and Kayla
Kayla has really grown!
She’s the same age as Ronnie (one month.. um, younger?)
and is very nice, quiet and polite.
Nick! (and Luisa)
Kayla’s younger brother, Nick, seemed to have two sides to him:
one side quiet and well behaved, and the other grinning with mischief!
They were great to have around!
Gord (in the far back), Reid and Michael, deep underground in the “refridgerator” cave
We visited an attraction near Blue Mountain in Collingwood called
Scenic Caves,
which turned out to be a lot of fun.
Along with the caves (which were a blast), there was also a suspension bridge, whose sole purpose was to afford an excellent view of Collingwood and Wassaga Beach.
Jo and Luisa admire the view, with Gord and Michael in the background
(Nic is back there somewhere too, no doubt)
Wind surfers just a few yards from the beach.
One day (Thursday) the wind was quite high, and the water was very chill.
Only Ronnie and I went in that day, and not for very long.
There were, howver, many many windsurfers about, zipping back and forth.
It was very cool.
Luisa’s exquisite tan
It’s always a shame when it’s all over.
It would be better if we could spend two weeks.
We did that once, and it was great.
We asked about two weeks next year, and if there is a cancellation, we may have a chance.
We will see..
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Just got back from seeing
The Day After Tomorrow
with Ronnie, who has been keen to see it for a few weeks now.
It was okay, but a bit predictable.
Actually, I am glad they didn’t do something like set off nukes to reverse the weather chages or something.
We also recently saw
I, Robot,
which is a nice action flick.
Some think it’s a lot more, but I think it’s only a little bit more.
Unlike the books by Asimov, you don’t have the feeling of an impending, evolutionary change in society.
All you are left with is a robot as a messianical figure.
The book diagrammed a society unaware of the major shift, whereas the movie hit said society over its head with a brick.
In fact, after the events of the movie, it wouldn’t be surprising if all robots were liquidated, or perhaps shipped off to 3rd world countries.
I recently subscribed to
Apple’s “upcoming movies” iCalendar
[you need iCal to use that link]
and found an interesting movie coming up.
Hero
seems to be yet another super-martial-arts movie,
and is in fact produced by the people who brought us
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
You can see
the trailer
at Apple’s site.
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Posted by rae in
familyat 5:30 pm on Thursday, 8 July 2004
I took Ronnie to the Silver Snail recently with a couple of his friends.
He was keenly interested when we went up to the top floor and he saw a Warcraft role-playing book (which we then got).
I failed my sanity check and ended up buying the first season of “Ranma 1/2″ on DVD.
Fortunately you can watch it with either English dubbing or subtitles. The dubbing seems to be a lot less accurate, and glosses over cultural phrasing, replacing it with fairly dumb-sounding English idioms.
Ah well.
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