grind the webster josie lemony odama

Finishing up the weekend with an update, I'm somewhere north of 50,000 words on the O'Reilly book project, but still quite a bit to go. Nobody told me books were so long - who'd have thunk it? Hopefully my particular brand of obscure gaming-related cojones (with help from some great external contributors) will go down well when it finally comes out later in the year.

As for extra-curricular fun and games, I had a little play around with the Polaroid I-Zone Webster, which Surplus Computers have been selling for all of three bucks. It has no focus (it's meant for 'scanning' small pics up close), but I still tried it out on some of the random toys in my office, from devil dolls and caterpillars through Homers and Swamp Things:

    


    

Media whorishly, I'm still digging Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime very, very much - they had a wonderful show on how most (subsidized) recycling was simply 'busy work' that the taxpayer has to shell out for. Also finished watching Gray's Anatomy, the last of the monologues I hadn't seen from the amazing, sadly missed Spalding Gray. Oh, and catch Josie And The Pussycats on Cartoon Network whenever it's on - I had completely forgotten it was so deliciously, badly Scooby-cloned.

Elsewhere, Michael Gondry's video for Steriogram's 'Walkie Talkie Man' is deliciously perverse, all yarn-unraveling. And thanks to Costco, the Lemony Snicket books (at least the first 9) are all ours, and they're marvelously gloomy - I know, I know, way behind the curve. And Odama, all wargames and pinball tables in one (!), as designed by the certifiable Yoot Saito of 'Seaman' fame, was the sleeper hit of E3. End of random recommendations.

Posted by h0l211 at May 16, 2004 07:56 PM