Heroes Takes Priority
This will be a quick post, I think. But I have a really good excuse. Even as I type this, the second episode of series 2 of Heroes is downloading... and I really want to watch it. Yeah, it's not a great reason, but it's good enough for me.
I'm watching it through Veoh, the actual application, whatever it's called. The website and confirmation email call it the VeohTV Beta whereas the program itself is just called the Veoh Player when running. Maybe the Player is the software and VeohTV is the service it accesses. Who knows. Anyway, I've been happy to watch such videos in a little browser window so far, but Skippy recommended the software, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Fairly impressive, so far, going on download speed alone.
I really need to do more reading. I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan but I've got the latest Discworld book, Making Money, and it's just been sitting on my desk for the past couple of days. I guess I'll try just sitting down at the weekend and reading through what I keep meaning to read through for a few hours.
When I really push myself, I've learned, I can read a surprising amount in a short space of time. Admittedly, pushing myself generally means “suddenly realising on the last day of the holidays that my English teacher wanted me to read a novel over the holidays and then madly scrambling to read it all before giving up sometime around 4 o'clock”.
Actually, besides reading, there's a lot of non-work-related stuff I want to get done. And by “work-related”, I'm including all the Corbett's Fiction and MacTake stuff that, while technically a hobby and usually enjoyable, still takes a lot of effort. Complete Super Paper Mario is fairly near the top of the list. I still haven't even played Dragon Quest, despite picking it up weeks ago. I've fallen out of the habit of using my DS a lot, though I imagine I'll be carrying it everywhere when Phantom Hourglass comes out. Won't help me get back on track with Final Fantasy III, though.
Then there's that PC I keep meaning to build, the stuff I want to sell on eBay, the big video game design books that I got from Amazon and that I'm slowly working my way through. Some day soon, I'm going to make a big to-do list, prioritise everything on it and then create some kind of elaborate scoring system. I will then use the scoring system to work out the total “to-do value” of the list and then try to ensure that I get tasks corresponding to at least half of that value done before the end of the October holiday.
Maybe I'll do that tomorrow in a study period, instead of studying for my next Maths test. Or maybe I'll just play Crash Team Racing, if Sam Stafford remembers to bring along his semi-mythical copy of the game. Someone brought in an original PlayStation today along with some classics like Spyro. I never had a PlayStation back in the day, so I feel a little left out while everyone reminisces about it. Still, they can keep their Crash Team Racing and their multitaps. I had Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie... Although I still maintain that my entire future is a direct result of hours spent playing Super Mario Bros on the NES.
Anyway, Heroes finished downloading some minutes ago, so I'm going to go watch that for a while then go to bed. I apologise if you didn't follow any of today's post but I'll be damned if I'm linking to the Wikipedia page of every game I mention here. You don't like it, Google it.
I'm watching it through Veoh, the actual application, whatever it's called. The website and confirmation email call it the VeohTV Beta whereas the program itself is just called the Veoh Player when running. Maybe the Player is the software and VeohTV is the service it accesses. Who knows. Anyway, I've been happy to watch such videos in a little browser window so far, but Skippy recommended the software, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Fairly impressive, so far, going on download speed alone.
I really need to do more reading. I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan but I've got the latest Discworld book, Making Money, and it's just been sitting on my desk for the past couple of days. I guess I'll try just sitting down at the weekend and reading through what I keep meaning to read through for a few hours.
When I really push myself, I've learned, I can read a surprising amount in a short space of time. Admittedly, pushing myself generally means “suddenly realising on the last day of the holidays that my English teacher wanted me to read a novel over the holidays and then madly scrambling to read it all before giving up sometime around 4 o'clock”.
Actually, besides reading, there's a lot of non-work-related stuff I want to get done. And by “work-related”, I'm including all the Corbett's Fiction and MacTake stuff that, while technically a hobby and usually enjoyable, still takes a lot of effort. Complete Super Paper Mario is fairly near the top of the list. I still haven't even played Dragon Quest, despite picking it up weeks ago. I've fallen out of the habit of using my DS a lot, though I imagine I'll be carrying it everywhere when Phantom Hourglass comes out. Won't help me get back on track with Final Fantasy III, though.
Then there's that PC I keep meaning to build, the stuff I want to sell on eBay, the big video game design books that I got from Amazon and that I'm slowly working my way through. Some day soon, I'm going to make a big to-do list, prioritise everything on it and then create some kind of elaborate scoring system. I will then use the scoring system to work out the total “to-do value” of the list and then try to ensure that I get tasks corresponding to at least half of that value done before the end of the October holiday.
Maybe I'll do that tomorrow in a study period, instead of studying for my next Maths test. Or maybe I'll just play Crash Team Racing, if Sam Stafford remembers to bring along his semi-mythical copy of the game. Someone brought in an original PlayStation today along with some classics like Spyro. I never had a PlayStation back in the day, so I feel a little left out while everyone reminisces about it. Still, they can keep their Crash Team Racing and their multitaps. I had Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie... Although I still maintain that my entire future is a direct result of hours spent playing Super Mario Bros on the NES.
Anyway, Heroes finished downloading some minutes ago, so I'm going to go watch that for a while then go to bed. I apologise if you didn't follow any of today's post but I'll be damned if I'm linking to the Wikipedia page of every game I mention here. You don't like it, Google it.
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posted by Alasdair Corbett at
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