Boss Blues.
My attempt at a little song based (as in changed some lines) on the Kill Bill title song by Nancy Sinatra.

My boss shot me down.

I was 3 and he was 11.
We worked on stuff which made me sick.
He worked late and my work, a bore.
He would always win the fight.

Bang Bang, He shot me down.
Bang Bang. I got stuck alone.
Bang Bang, those awful meetings.
Bang Bang, my braindead boss shot me down.

People came and changed the time.
When I grew old, I thought he'd help.
He always smiles and says.
"Remember, the plans we have for you ?".

Bang Bang, I shot you down
Bang Bang, you stay for now.
Bang Bang, the work you do.
Bang Bang, I used to talk you down.

People worked, and people cried
Just for him, I was special.

Now he's still there, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I swear
I couldn't even utter a word.
His carrots did let me speak.

Bang Bang, He shot me down.
Bang Bang. I got stuck alone.
Bang Bang, those awful meetings.
Bang Bang, my braindead boss shot me down.

BTW, I dont know if it is illegal to make stuff like the one above (is it a (c) infringement?).. If you think so let me know.
- posted by Anil @ 3:25 AM 0 comments

 
More OMF.
Spent sunday afternoon at Jiju's place. I had hoped to see some Radeon or GeForce cards to try OMF, on his new pc. No luck there. But had a nice time talking about his Europe tour. Ruined his afternoon and got home drenched ((almost)unexpected rain).

More OMF today afternoon.. Beat Raven (tough guy). But I guess he stood there waiting for me to hit home, doing some combos once in a while (yes.. he does only combos, atleast he appears that way). I am starting to get a hang of it. The right and left block and attack is cool.. Had always worried about how to go around turning every now and then (not that I can stop doing that). Also learned the Jaguar's overhead-throw. After the tourney there is a little tourney where Raven invites people to challenge him and we get to play Raven.
- posted by Anil @ 5:00 AM 0 comments

 
Dream, Wiki, OMF.
Woke up from crazy dream. It was set in my primary school (Coimbatore). I am visiting it (for I dont know what)... lots of teachers acknowledge my presense, talk to me asking me about my whereabouts.. I dont know where that thread went. Later my room mates are moving out (still in my dream).. Then I wake up. Wonder if I am sleep deprived.

Spent some time trying to decide whether to upgrade a wiki I just put up at work from usemod to oddmuse (which is the improved version used at emacswiki.org). When I needed some changes in appearance (like letting on one set of wiki controls, at the bottom) I had to change the script. Oddmuse appears to have shifted a lot to outside the script (better), but am still to see if I should switch.

Felt like playing OMF:BG, but dont have the box to do (see prev.post). Wanted to see if I can get some idea on the beautiful moves from the net : I ended up reading this: Violence in games by Rob Elam (lead dev. for OMF:2097 and OMF:BG). Yike !

There is a kick start for learning PostScript here:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html
Yay ! Now I can type into our laser printer and tell it to draw a box :)
- posted by Anil @ 12:49 AM 0 comments

 
OMF:BG

I loved the title One must fall : 2097 and always wanted to try the
game (http://omf.com) OMF:BG. The fight with a new feel.

OMF:BG has 3rd person view (first thing I noticed is that it robs
Jaguar of the beauty of its leap). There was a warm feeling when I
turned the volume up and heard the familiar music (at the game menu
screens).

Just got the feel of the game.. Lot more of exploring to be done.
Could not get to try it till today (it blows on all those Intel i8XX
cards and had to run it on my chum's T42 which had a radeon 7500).

- posted by Anil @ 9:28 AM 0 comments