he Gwilks invited me round for lunch with some friends of theirs (who included Gaby, who I remembered from the Chick Flicks group), followed (of course) by board games. We spent a very enjoyable afternoon playing a wide assortment of games, most of which I’d never encountered before. I won once, came absolutely last once,…
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I actually managed to write a little javascript app that works! Doesn’t do anything particularly useful, but that can come later 🙂 The more important thing is, it won me a challenge set by one of my workmates. Because we’re all at different levels of ability as far…
ne of the (many) things I really love about my job is the cool people I get to meet. Yesterday afternoon, for example, I had a meeting with Julia Holden, the artist who painted the Wish You Were Here series of billboards that were displayed in Auckland, and now Wellington. She was telling us about the…
while back I supported a kickstarter for a game called Machine of Death (based on the excellent book of short stories of the same name). The kickstarter succeeded, and the game was duly produced and sent out, with a request from the creator (who writes the Wondermark comic) that people send him photos of the…
y birthday party baking went really well – the bread dough rose and baked up beautifully, the cake and eclairs were suitably chocolatey and decadent (even if I did slightly mess up the icing on the eclairs by getting a little bit too experimental and forgetting that adding orange zest to give it an interesting…
Yetzirah and Sherlockfan asked me to explain Minecraft. A tall order, but I’ll see what I can do. So, Minecraft is a computer game that’s completely open-ended and what they call “sand-box” – i.e. you can play it any way you like – there’s no set aim or way of winning. Basically, you are placed…
DD has been down again, or at least, the ability for some of us to log in properly has been, so these two entries are ones I wrote over the last couple of days but haven’t been able to post until now (so the “yesterday”s are several days ago now – I’ve added in the…
A few of the Christchurch Bloggers were meeting up at the Craft Love Fair at Mairehau High last night, so I went along. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but there was a lot of temptation on offer (and all right, I may have bought a few small things…). I was a bit braver about…
DD went a bit crashy-bang yesterday, and I got 404’d from my own diary, so I wasn’t able to post the progress pictures of the remainder of the Minecraft faces: Chicken: Cow: And Enderman (a type of monster, for the uninitiated – its eyes glow pink when it’s angry at you): I started doing the…