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Archive for January, 2008

Steambot Chronicles

Posted in Entertainment, Life, tagged , on Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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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.

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Eucatastrophe

Posted in Literature, Redemption, Theology, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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New iMac: a Longer Review

Posted in Apple, Technology, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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iMac

Posted in Technology, tagged , 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 [...]

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Carcassonne and Puerto Rico

Posted in Board Games, tagged , , 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 [...]

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