Movies and Ogres and Catan, oh my!

[swestrup]

So, it looks like taxlady and I shall be partaking of the Movies on Thursday.  We'd like to go to the 4:35 PM showing of Shrek 2 at dollarcinema. All interested are welcome to join us!

I should also point out that I'm going to be in town on Tuesday for another business meeting. I'll probably spend a few hours after the meeting at Concordia or McGill libraries, but after than I would be free to play Catan, if there is any interest.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:38:00 EDT (-0400)

The September issue of IEEE Spectrum, which I received a couple
of days ago, has an article about being a CTO in a technology
start-up. Check it out and let us know if you think the author
(Frans M. Coetzee) is an idiot or not.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careers.jsp
First article is in the "Resources" section, pg 64, called "Here
Be Dragons: Rule 1 in managing a technology start-up: beware the
easy money". Won't be on the website for another month, it looks
like. Subsequent articles in the series will *only* be on the
website (in the Careers section). Do you see this magazine on
newsstands anywhere?

Re: your entry:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/swestrup/265550.html

The same issue also has an interesting analysis of how aging of
biological organisms is a lot like how machines with many
redundant components (some of which start out broken) age.

-Jim

[swestrup]

Every now and then I see an IEEE magazine on a rack, but I haven't in a while. I also can't afford to buy any magazines until the money situation improves. Let me know when the article is on the web.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Am I correct in assuming that it's Settlers of Catan you mention?

Having only played it a handful of times (or maybe 50, but who's counting ;-) I still haven't come to the point where I feel that games get repetitive... do they become that?
Or do all the different expansions help make each game more unique?

[swestrup]

You've probably played the game more than me then. _sps_ has all of the expansions, and is a *really* good player, so its been lots of fun (even though I seldom win). So far, we've mostly been happy playing out all of the set maps, since it seems that every time we play, we have someone who doesn't know the game too well.

Once we get past that, and get to the randomized maps, I think it will be even more fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:16:00 EDT (-0400)

Re: http://www.livejournal.com/users/swestrup/2004/02/27/:
This one was amusing:
"The Lighter Side of Tentacle Porn":
http://www.sexylosers.com/016.html
(*Definitely* not "work-safe" to view)
-Jim

[swestrup]

Yup. I was reading "Sexy Losers" back when it was called the "Hard H line". When I found out it had been reborn as Sexylosers.com, I started reading it again, but never bothered to go back through the archive for the few months I had missed, so I hadn't seen the Tentacle Porn one before.

Too bad hardartist, who draws the strip, has had money and computer problems. We won't see any more strips until that gets sorted out.