- I am very annoyed that the Half Life 2: Lost Coast bonus level was released within a week of me leaving my reasonably powerful desktop computer behind in Sydney. I had been waiting for ages for the damn thing to be released, and now I can’t play it! (although it probably wouldn’t have run so great on my machine, since I only had a fairly standard graphics card).
- I went out and saw a bit over an hour of Doom [the movie] last night, then fortunately the center audio channel dropped out so I had a good excuse to go get my money back ;) Then I went back home to my room and watched (mostly heard) fireworks explode around the general area (it was Guy Fawkes night). Amazingly, you can still buy fireworks here– evidence that New Zealand is indeed less safety conscious than Australia,* where they were banned from public sale several years ago.
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* it has been pointed out to me that NZ is less flammable than Australia, which could also account for the discrepancy ;)