Started my half marathon training plan today with an early wieght lifting session. Tomorow I have 3 miles to run in the morning. and 2 miles the day after. Will balance performance with a liquid diet and base my main meals on soups and salads.
Finished writing chapter 7. Work will commence on chapter 8 tomorow. Work went relatively smooth. As long as I take breaks every few paragraphs or so, I’ll be able to knock out a chapter a day for the next two weeks.
Took me a while to get through this one. Rushkoffs’ Playing the Future: how kids’ culture can teach us to thrive in an age of chaos is a very impressive read. Douglas R. illustrates a cultural transition that moves from linearity to chaos, from duality to holism, from mechanism to animism, from gravity to consensual, from metaphor to recapitulation, and from God to nature, all through the lenses of role-playing games, comic books, 3-d animation, and computer games. By far, the central theme of P the F is cultural movement we experience towards an organized chaos (fractel being the metaphorical shape Rushkoff uses) and ultimetly higher levels of organizations.
Rushkoff is a very talented writer being able to string together long and complex sentances that connect many different ideas in a relatively short space. This work is of impressive scope and it definetly dives deep into the nuances and intricacies of kids’ culture and thier interpretation of the world. An excellent read 10/10.
This is a mystery/horror/adventure game that gravitates between an FPS and a FPA. That game is story based and story led, an FBI agent framed while investigating a murder, has a female FBI agent that helps with clues and evidance and some other spooky characters that help him find murderer.There’s not much to stray off the main plot and solutions are pretty much handed out without to much guess work. Graphics is strange. Not very sharp but definetly complimetary to the game. The sound, light and shadow play and cut scenes do create an eerie atmosphere that fits nicely with the genre but there are not many surprises. Other than the occasional fall through the floor or zombie like vagbond climbing a chain link or dark passing shadows or a breaking window, there aren’t enough scares to really makes this title scary. Tons of weapons you can pick up, or simply tear from wall, anything from pipes, 2×4, planks, sticks, and even drawers. There are guns in the game but very little ammo which makes them insignificant and not much fun to use. The game was o.k. to play but I was exepcting a twist all the way up to the end. In this genre, Indigio Prophecy was much more pleasurable. 6/10
Inclusive wieght lifting. Moderate wieghts. Will increase next week. Abs work out as well.
Making progressn the new project yet not at the speed I would like to. I’ll attack it more seriously this coming week, try to knock off a chapter a day.
30-min run. 2 miles, 1.5 incline, 4.5 mph.
Yes, finally a quick move. We received the interview appointment today and it’s right around the corner. Hopefully we’ll get the I-551 (green card stamp) and we’ll be able to travel aborad immediatly. That would be great.
Strandbooks is proudly boosting 18 miles of books. Arguably the biggest used book store in NY, its a heaven for book worms like myself. Anything from a $1 hard covers to today’s best sellers, Strand has something for every mind and every pocket. Here’s the loot I managed to plunder for just $40 dollars:
1) You just don’t understand by Debrah Tannen
2) The productive edge by Richard Lester
3) Feminism without illusions by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
4) Transcendent Summits by Gerry Roach
5) In pursuit of happiness by Mark Kingwell
6) Technotrends by Daniel Burrus
7) Opening Skinner’s box by Lauren Slater
8) The Cluetrain Manifesto by Levine, Locke, Searis, and Weinberger
9) Man of the people: the life of john maccain by Paul Alexander
10) Surfing the trends of chaos by Pascale, Millemann, and Gioja
11) This timeless moment by Laura Huxley
12) Net ready by Hartman and Sifonis
13) The case for mars by Robert Zubrin
14) The digital economy by Don tapscott
15) The soul’s code by James Hillman
16) The roaring 2000’s by Harry Dent
Bally’s: 40min cycling. 150 bpm. 380clr.