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Bunch of amusing linky goodness. Or at least I found it amusing.

• Long time ago (k, 2 years ago), we mentioned Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away from you. Well he is now out of prototype. that’s right, buy Clocky now! In the future, he’ll be available in the “shag carpet version”. Ah the poor cat. Maybe I should get the robot vacuum while I’m at it, and see how they get along.
• “Harbours a deep hatred of men” is how a woman was described to court. A bit of a understatement, she set her boyfriend’s penis on fire!!
• Don’t mess with her, if Joni Ross walked around with her own severed arm, she’s as tough as nails. Mess with her, and she’d probably beat you with said severed arm if she had to.

Right, to bed then. Maybe.  (Oh, and its snowing.  In March. Again!  At least it’s not cherry blossom season quite yet like it was last year.)

Red wine

Free Carcassonne, Settlers and more, plus expansions …(against bots or other live users)…

I haven’t posted much since talking about how I’m not building an e-commerce empire. My mind has been on other things – Less work (I don’t think I’ve actually worked a full day on the weekend this year) and more on life things and more on private things.

In some ways, I’m a pretty private person (relatively speaking, I suppose, I do blog after all….), so I’ll sometimes make references to things online that you’ll really only understand if you actually know us. I alluded to “making a deposit on an expansion project” in my previous post — that stirred up a lot of comments. Well, truth is, the wife and I had paid for a short visit to get some help with our expansion project but it turns out that we have been able to break ground without help.

It’s still very early weeks, but its not something that hides very well given our lifestyle. It’s a cautious, guarded happiness that we’re growing into. Maybe I’ll run into other emotions later, but one thing at a time, OK? For the time being, thats the news.

(If, on the off chance, you’re from my workplace or from the wife’s workplace, keep it under your hat, won’t you?)

Was reading Penny Arcade today as I’m apt to do on M/W/F and noticed in their musings of random blurbiness wordsmithing that they boardgame fans too – and several of which a group of us play as well. However, I was surprised to notice that a few of my favourites might be coming to Xbox Live to play online with friends. Now I’ve tried a PC version of Settlers and it left much to be desired, but being able to chide and laugh at people online via the headset is spiffy. But there would have to a ‘wrong’ sound to be played in Carcassonne when people keep trying to place the piece in the wrong spot. Now more of a reason to get a Xbox 360…

In any case, still high from this recent exposure, I returned home to discover media whose contents were so titillating they skirted the frilled edge of erotica. I was aware that boardgames were coming to Live Arcade – Carcassonne and others – but I wasn’t aware they were pulling in the company that made Rise of Nations to manage The Settlers of Catan. To be perfectly honest, I was expecting to choke down a half-assed port of their Windows version. I was wrong in absolute terms.

(editor: I’m guessing what this post said before I edited it. – 24601)

Canada, still better than famine and war-ridden Ethiopia. Tied with European backwater Albania.

Our women fair spectacularly better.

The disconnect there is pretty dramatic. I wonder how many other sports/nations are like that.