Current Research
Right, I am now officially homeless. Having left my apartment last week, I have to wait until the end of the month to move into the new one. This sucks. At present, I reside in a dimly lit kitchen in Fruängen, at the southmost end of one of the underground lines. I fret for the move into my new apartment. I have insane amounts of stuff! I thought I might fill twenty or thirty moving boxes (60x45x45 cm or so) but I was surprised to find that I needed close to seventy. Plus my furniture. Plus my clothes. When I move in I will have to have a sorting orgy.
I have been doing other stuff too. I finished reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood's book End of the World Blues, which I really disliked. Like many other books, I chose it because "hey, the cover design is nice!" but unlike most other titles, I had a very hard time getting through it. Funny thing is, it has gotten a lot of very good reviews and I am not even very picky with books. It did get a little bit better towards the end, but not much. This is in stark contrast to 9tail Fox by the same author which I enjoyed. Finally being rid of End of the World Blues, I started on Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated. I have read only a short bit of it, but so far it seems great!
Speaking of great, I went out and bought Super Mario Galaxy, and I think it is possible, if not probable, that this is one of the best single-player games ever. I have only played for three hours or so, so it might still be marred by being too short or too repetitive, but what I saw left my jaw drooping. I also got The Orange Box, just to be able to play Team Fortress 2. It is certainly a good game, but it would so be much better if it was not so immensely addictive. Together with a friend of mine, I am creating a game which is sort of a mix between Team Fortress and the first Grand Theft Auto. That is, top-down 2d capture the flag action. Most of the programming is done, so now we just need to implement gameplay restrictions and give it fancy graphics. It will have pirates, and zombies. Look forward to it.
As you can see below, I am also partying TO THE MAX! My friend Anton was just partying TO THE MED, given his relative lack of party hats. On the same day as the above picture was taken, there was a hobo on the underground who was spraying pine-scented ass freshener (the stuff some people have in their bathrooms instead of good ventilation) into his mouth so that the whole wagon stank like a synthetic forest. That is probably the epitome of partying TO THE MIN.
