"Chaotic Neutral"

We’ve been to her majesty’s sisters house in Koga the last weekend which is around 1h from Tokyo and spent a lazy Saturday/Sunday there and mostly played games on the GBA and PS2 of my niece in law which convinced me enough to buy a Gameboy again and so I’ve went to buy a black GBA SP last week. A great yield!

My favorite GBA game of the moment for it is GT3 Advance Pro Concept Racing! This game means a lot of racing fun on the Gameboy! The track design isn’t really 3D but uses mode7 which means it is rather a flat plane with the track on it and several obstacle sprites on it but IMHO looks better than the clumsy graphics of Collin McRae Rally.

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I’ve installed SuSE Linux v9.1 a couple of days ago on my now secondary PC and after 2-3 days also managed to get rid of that ugly default KDE desktop look and turned it into a somewhat bearable view.
Honestly when do the interface designers stop smoking strange things and come back to a neat and clear GUI design? The icons of the default KDE were huge (48px) and even looked way to big on my 1280×1024 resolution. The initially chosen color palette can only be described as atrocity and the default wallpaper was of minor quality! When flapping out the kicker menu (that’s basically the same as the windows start menu) again huge icons and text is thrown at you and shine in a multitude of fancy colors with soft edges as if they want to compete with the Teletubbies! Who ever had the idea to introduce 24 bit colored icons: here comes my hand and whips to your face!

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We’ve been to the Star Wars Science and Art exhibition in Ueno yesterday. It was held in the Basement halls of the National Science Museum and I can tell it was worth the visit!

They had tons of models present which were used in the movies, from the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers to AT-AT walkers and the original sized Pod Racers. Also most of the costumes where put on dummies and it was very interesting to see how lo-fi the costumes from the ‘old’ episodes actually are but how real they look in the movies. The space ships were probably the most impressive things there! The 61×76x21 inch model of the Falcon was a good example on how to make a space ship model look authentic, it looked rusty, dirty and had details like laser shot holes in the hull.

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“Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when geeks were geeks and floppies were really floppy.”

European Vintage Computer Festival

Now this is just hilarious … Accidental Video Game Porn or like you would say ‘don’t let your mother see this!’ An archive of screenshots and animations showing explicit (and all non-intended of course) scenes from various old and new video games. Searching for backdoor demon sex with Zelda or hardcore bestiality orgies with Pikachu? You’ll find it there! I haven’t imagined video games are so full of ambiguous material! The funny thing about it are really the comments to the pictures. And unlike others, the emphasis lies here on ‘accidental’.

This was how I’ve felt when I entered the Ginza Apple Store some days ago!

It was like “Hey everything is nice and easy and good” … but in a strangely artificial and rather canting way. I’ve opened my not so bad and somewhat stylish flash portfolio on one of the apples with lamp-screen and went up some floors and when I came back, the apple was set back to it’s screen with boring landscape pictures like it was before. Sounds rather like a bourgeois PC store, doesn’t it?! Let’s watch this again just for a lark (and then this one! !

I feel I rather want to visit the 8-bit Museum and admire some of the old machines! An excellent informed website about obsolete computers with tons of detail, screenshots, photos and extended information that old.computers.com doesn’t provide! Old computer goodness from A like Nintari to T like Hexers Instruments. Unfortunately the site’s text is only in german.