According to this I just beat the 9th highest score ever officially recorded on Spy Hunter. I hadn’t played in months but I got this score on the first run on the sit down Spy Hunter we have in the office. One of these days I’ll hook up a video camera and make a legit attempt. Ryan’s the old owner and holder of the #7 spot.
Saw this great elevator art at the building Chime software is located in.
this toy is specifically built to crash – but if you do the sticker says the toy will break! Which is right? (seen@ Fry’s electronics)
A leaf fell from our walnut tree and stuck in this Jack-o-lantern’s mouth giving it the appearance of a tongue. Completely random and wonderful at the same time.
Gargoyle allows you to play almost every kind of interactive fiction under the sun. It’s a little tricky to get running since there is no package for it under Karmic for amd64. (But if you’re running 32 bit Karmic go here for the 32 bit package).
First download the Gargoyle source code from the Gargoyle repo. As of this posting the current version is gargoyle-2009-08-25-sources.zip.
Unzip the file to a directory.
Now get the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install jam libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev
And finally compile:
jam install
You’ll find the executable under the build/dist directory. The INSTALL text file has more details. Happy IF’ing!
I’ve been having intermittent issues with my comcast setup, mostly doing netflix instant viewing. I called in today and quickly became frustrated with the run around. After I politely asked to be connected to billing to cancel my account (and sitting on hold for 10m) my issue was magically escalated.
Brian Jamison
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