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So my favourite game in quite some time that I never shut up about is, of course, DROD.  The City Beneath is the latest installment, and even though I bought it online when it came out last year, I don’t think it had been “officially” released until recently.  (I’m a bit confused on this matter, I only remember that before I had to hunt around on the forums to find a link to purchase, and as of right now there still isn’t a non-downloadable version available yet.)

In any case, as part of this “official” release, or maybe not, I see now that there is a trailer to watch on YouTube.  It’s kind of, well, it keeps a straight face at most points and so I’m not sure what they are trying to sell the game as, but personally I would have emphasized more of the puzzles and especially more of the quirky humour.  But in any case, you can at least hear the music and get a small glimpse of what the game looks like in motion.

The trailer is available here.

The sport of Tennis is not played optimally while wearing dress pants and winter boots.  However, doing so makes for a better excuse than just being plain out of shape.

Well, after spending the better part of last week sick with the worst flu in recent memory, I recovered just in time to fly down to Orlando, Florida, where I am writing from now.  I’m attending the inexplicably named Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, and presenting a paper here.

I am a terribly boring traveller, so I don’t really have anything exciting to relate, except the fact that I was “randomly selected” for additional searching at the border.  I blame racial profiling!

I’m told that most of the communities outside of Orlando are basically run by Disney, who sell the various utilities/garbage disposal/etc. since they aren’t offered by any municipal government.  A sign that we are truly in a dystopian future, if true!

In any case, I will be back in Fredericton sometime next week.  I say that now based on the likelyhood I’ll update this page between now and then.  (It’s not very high!)

In the meantime, wish me luck for tomorrow morning.