Nick.

Waste of time.

I’ve finally rescheduled from last time (when I was sick). Come along! Bring your friends!

Details:

• Time/Date: 7:30pm, tonight (Thursday 10 August, 2006)
• Location: The Moon and Six Pence, 300 Murray Street, Perth
• Cost: Free entry! (You may want to buy dinner or a drink though)

I’ll be walking from home; stop by here by 6:30pm if you want to go in with me.

I bought Heidi a Nordic Ware castle bundt pan from Peters of Kensington. The product page begins with the lines:

Run for your lives! The Vikings are coming!

Don’t be afraid – these Nordic warriors aren’t here to burn down your homes. They’re here to help you make delicious cakes!

So I immediately knew that it was the right gift! (That and I saw Heidi checking it out online a few months ago). The day it arrived Heidi decided to make a cake (even though we only had 2 hours before we had to go out). She unwrapped the package, started mixing the ingredients, and got me to clean the pan:

An hour or so later, and it was done. Just in time for Tone to have some as well (he was giving me a ride). It was a chocolate cake:

The next cake she make looked more castle-like. It was… some sort of orange butter cake I think. Much lighter in colour, so the details stood out a bit more. No photo because it was eaten very quickly…

Update: The Nordic Ware website has a great picture of a castle bundt made to look like a sand castle.

I’m selling a double-size, tri-fold, futon sofa-bed. The base is pine and Australian hardwood, and covered with a few coats of clear varnish. The futon is 100% cotton and comes with a nice dark chocolate coloured cover. It’s around 18 months old and has been very rarely used.

I bought it from Fantasy Futon and more information (including images and dimensions) is available on the product page.

Brand new, this futon was $469. I’m expecting to sell it for less than half that. If interested, you can e-mail me at: gamefreedom `at` gmail.com.

Update: Item is located in Perth, Western Australia. 😛

Jason keeps telling me that he’ll get a DS when he can buy (locally) a black one to match his PSP.

Well, PALGN is reporting that dstore has the black DS lite for preorder. The expected release date is September 21. We’ll be waiting…

Phoenix Wright is surprisingly well translated.

They’ve adapted everything from stupid puns to pop-cultural references. I definitely wasn’t expecting these choice quotes from a character called “Sal Manella”:

WTF? Who are j00 d00dz!? LMAO!
Whatever, l4m3rs!
I make teh L33T SH0WZ!

More quotes (with possible spoilers, but not really) after the jump.

Update: Another surprising quote: “Shut your pie-hole!”
Continue reading “Phoenix Wright translated into geek”

I was at Officeworks in East Perth yesterday and noticed that they have a couple of cheap monochrome laser printers on sale. I was in a bit of a rush and didn’t pay much attention, but I remember that one is a Brother for $149 and the other is a HP for $199.

I think that the Brother model is the HL-2040 which I bought earlier this year. I still haven’t had to change the toner and it works very well under Ubuntu.

I hadn’t visited the Iraq body count site in a while:

It’s unfathomable.

It seems that global media is suffering war fatique; I can’t think of any other reason that news about some drunk actor overshadows news of such current human catastrophe.

There are plans afoot for pool tomorrow. Also be sure to bring your Nintendo DS as there may be some wifi gaming during or after.

Details:

• Time/Date: 10am onwards, Saturday 5 August
• Location: Pot Black Northbridge. (opposite Gelare)
• Cost: $12.50 per table per hour or $7 each for free play between 10am and 1pm

Please let me know if you can make it. The more people the better.

The OpenGL hompage reports that the OpenGL BOF (Birds of a Feather) presentations from this year’s SIGGRAPH are available for download (as Powerpoint slideshows).

Highlights include:

• OpenGL 3 directions (Much leaner with a compatibility layer)
• OpenGL New object model (Consistency… finally!)
• OpenGL Upcoming features (Geometry shader, texture as table, conditional rendering)
• OpenGL on Vista (After much fear and debate, I guess this is happening)

These presentations include information that people have been holding out for (the ARB have been very quiet for the last couple of years). However, due to the nature of the presentations, they are still fairly limited on details.