Journal

Potential New Species

A Bit Slow

I was a little slower than expected yesterday, but I’ve still managed to clock about 5,000 words so far this week, so I’m more or less unfazed. And I suppose I can pretend that the awful weather has been too distracting for me to work in, and I can compound that with the fact that I woke up feeling quite sore (exercise), but it doesn’t really matter, does it?

Funny though, I’ve been going consistently faster than my usual speed that it now seems odd whenever I fail to hit top gear. I think I should temper expectations somewhat to ensure that I don’t get frustrated when I hit a slow patch.

Weather Woes

In any case, the weather really is quite horrible. I think I’m heading out today to see if I can hide somewhere cooler.

And it also makes me all a bit lazy, so I’m cheating and what follows are a few links.

Yes, Brand New!

Pictures of potential new species. [via National Geographic] The katydids, in particular, look beautiful.

Homeless Sims

Alice and Kev is the blog about a homeless family in The Sims 3. [via Alice and Kev] From the intro:

This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.

Stamp

Will someone buy me the lovely Dave McKean-illustrated stamp set? [via Royal Mail]

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