It's too late to be useful

[eleneariel]

And I'm just too awake and too cheerful to go to bed.

I made some necklaces out of old buttons today. I like them a lot and I think they look very fall-and-wintery. I've collected jars and jars of vintage (and otherwise) buttons. Why not wear them?

Thanks to the bad influence of _haydee_ , I've become enamoured with this game. Remember back - way, way back - those text-based adventure games, of which the greatest was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? We had a stone-age Apple IIe computer, and I had never read the book and hadn't an idea in the world what the whole house-being-flattened-by-a-bulldozer was about. It means ever so much more now (and the graphics are, um, rather much improved!) 

What's funny is that I've never gotten all the way through any computer game. I loved Myst, but I even got bored of that when I couldn't figure it out fast enough. I do not know if I'll ever get all the way through this one, either, but I don't think I'll get tired of it. Perhaps by stealing a couple moments here and there I may be able to finish it in five years! 

Anyway, that was a heads up to any Hitchhiker fans - you MUST take a peek at it. It's marvelous. 

Comments

[elanortheeldest.livejournal.com]

I'm up late too, only I'm trying to do something useful (price things for the antique mall). I think I'll give up soon and to go bed. :-P

Oh, yes. And I'm also being amused by the sight of a five-foot-tall female telling a huge lab/mastiff dog and a quickly growing Wolfhound puppy that it's bedtime and thus time to settle down. She meant it too.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Go Kristin!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_haydee_/]

Watch out for me, I'm evil!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Which some might say is why I like you. ; )

[savetheolives.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite text adventure games is this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050329093703/http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html

I tried playing the Hitchhiker one and I didn't even make it out of the bedroom. lol

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

ooo! Ooo! I can give you hints!

[savetheolives.livejournal.com]

Too tempting -- I'd spend hours playing it. Not good. ;)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

This summer? It's sooo fun. =)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

not that I, uh, have much time to play it myself. But I sneak in a little bit here and there. ; )

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

btw, I think I like the Hamlet one. =)

[savetheolives.livejournal.com]

The best part is thinking of odd commands to give it, to which it invariably has a reply. And the Shakespearian humor.

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

I loved old text adventure games too! We never had the HHG2TG one, but I had at least one friend who had it. I actually discovered these new adaptations of it on BBC a while back too. I haven't had a chance to really play them yet, but I bet they're a lot of fun!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

They are. ; )

[wandering-flame.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I love text based games. Here's one for ya. ;-)
http://www.homestarrunner.com/dman3.html

[savetheolives.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! That is hilarious. I love Homestar Runner...