Although I’m still in the beginning phases of this game, I find it quite enjoyable. The game is a Japanese RPG for the PlayStation 2, (fortunately localized, however) where you enter the game having amnesia and explore a large country with many quests. (Unfortunately I tend to be too linear and it takes me longer [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Steambot Chronicles
Posted in Entertainment, Life, tagged RPG, Steambot Chronicles on Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Expectation
Posted in Fatherhood, Life on Monday, 28 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I suppose a new category will have to be added to this blog: fatherhood.
For those of you who don’t know: my wife and I are expecting our firstborn. The due date is late August, early September.
Eucatastrophe
Posted in Literature, Redemption, Theology, tagged Eschatology, Eucatastrophe, fairy story, fairy tale, Lord of the Rings, Soteriology, Tolkien on Thursday, 24 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Finding parallels with ancient Greek drama, J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word eucatastrophe to describe the sudden turning of events from bad [...]
New iMac: a Longer Review
Posted in Apple, Technology, tagged Apple Remote, Front Row, GarageBand, iLife, iMac, Spaces, widescreen on Saturday, 19 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
As previously posted my new iMac came in on Thursday; I’m quite impressed with it. The first thing I noticed is the screen. My screen is a widescreen 16:9 format, 20″ along the diagonal. Coming from a 12″ laptop screen, this is ginormous! I have let to watch a DVD on it but am looking [...]
iMac
Posted in Technology, tagged iMac, Macintosh on Thursday, 17 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
My new iMac came today and I’m quite excited, I took a picture of me taking a picture of it before I realized you all probably didn’t want to see a picture of me but of the computer. As soon as I get that picture off the camera (which I’ll do after I go search [...]
Carcassonne and Puerto Rico
Posted in Board Games, tagged Carcassonne, German-style Board Game, Puerto Rico on Thursday, 3 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently received the board games Carcassonne and Puerto Rico. Both are quite enjoyable games, and plenty of fun to play. Both are German-style board games, meaning that they are themed games (not abstract like chess or draughts/chequers) where players are not eliminated during the course of the game.
Carcassonne is a tile laying game [...]

