Eastertime

Good weekend. Celebrated Yuri's Day with Chris & Valerie on Friday by watching Futurama and playing Race for the Galaxy. We just didn't KNOW we were.

We went to visit the parents for Easter. Dinner was had after they got back from church. We went to Kingston for a short tour around town, and stopped by the old Lake Ontario Park to look around.

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We also saw that they've installed a wind farm on Wolfe Island.

The farm is visible as you come up Bath Road into Kingston, and is easily visible from the Kingston waterfront. I wonder how loud the howls of NIMBY-ists were against its construction?

There are plans to upgrade it, either to an enviro-park or an art-park. It would be good to make use of the space.

On Easter we had a light breakfast before meeting up with Ron & Janet for Easter lunch with her family in Kingston. It being Easter, venue choice was somewhat limited, so it was at Lee Garden, an okay Chinese buffet joint.

We got there for noon, but it turned out the lunch was actually at one. Whoopsie! So we took a trip over to Bellevue House, former residence of Sir John A. McDonald. There'll be pictures of that tomorrow.

Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice

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I'm un-necessarily fond of the old Intellivision games. Astrosmash, Burger Time, the two D&D games, they're all a hoot. Hell, I play Feeding Frenzy because it's cool, but also because it reminds me of Shark Shark.

I'm not great at these games; I've never played them enough to gain the instinctual familiarity with the patterns of gameplay you need to be great at them. But still, they can be a lot of fun.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Well, Abe Vigoda's still alive as of half an hour ago, but Starlog is no more.

Starlog was one of my favourite periodicals in my youth. It, along with Ah! Caramelo!s were two things I always sought out at the corner shop where we'd wait for the feeder bus to take us home. It brought me constant joy to read Starlog, reading about books and tv shows and movies and comics (and occasional games).

There were always interesting articles to be found, too. They'd print interviews with scriptwriters and FX people in addition to performers and directors. They even published, with disturbing regularity, episode guides for all your favourite shows. I remember they did a Trek one written in character. Scotty had one that went "I dinnae remember a thing, Captain, I was droonk".

Good times. I haven't picked up an issue in decades (and that could, of course, explain much) , but I still have fond memories of it.