Party - GOOD!
Monday 31st July
I arrived home at three o’clock this morning after the long weekend in Sweden. The party was just excellent, helped by the comfortable hotel bed (instead of crashing on the milk-factory floor) and the huge buffet breakfasts as provided by Scandinavian hotels.
As far as results go, our joint Atari demo (in the ‘General Demo’ category, code by Kronky, music by me) came third, winning me a Playmobil nun. w00t for the nuns! My C64 demo wasn’t last, which is definitely success in my book - seeing as how I have used a C64 for less than a year and most of the other entrants had about 20 years experience!
I managed to get a photo of the ‘window’ that I wrote about in my last blog. I love the irony of the aircon unit serving a different area of the factory which is right next to the pile of fallen glass…
And some retro-geek-porn…
After the party ended on Sunday, we had quite a bit of time to kill, so we had a wander around. Some curiosities spotted on the trip…
(Clockwise from top left) Promiscuous Pasta, Swedish Flag Lollies, Sweden’s Southernmost Point, Sauce Bottles You Have To Milk, Angry Workers, Big Bridge.
We also saw the following object. We couldn’t read the Swedish, but its shape and the fact it had two men expressing love on it suggests it’s called something like “The Big Gay Stone of Skåne”…
Oh… and I discovered the knack to getting by in a foreign language you don’t know without reverting to English. The knack was to not care whether I was saying the right words or not, but to say them extremely confidently. I didn’t get too many funny looks and I generally received what I was after in the correct quantity. It was an interesting experience.
What’s the Swedish for ‘YAY!’ and ‘WOO!’? I seem to have forgotten *ahem*.
And did anyone play Manic Miner or Robin hood on the C64s?
Omally
31 Jul 06 at 6:52 pm
1) I don’t know
2) I don’t think a lot of gaming was going on except the absolutely compulsary tour de france
stu
31 Jul 06 at 6:57 pm
Ooh look! A rock hard erection!
*snigger*
sarah
31 Jul 06 at 7:27 pm
Hahahahahaha…..
Loving the six random photos and DIY window! Did you ‘milk’ the sauce too?
Ooh and that’s one serious bridge.
DoGga
31 Jul 06 at 9:19 pm
Hahahahahaha…..
Loving the six random photos and DIY window! Did ya ‘milk’ the sauce too?
Ooh and that’s one serious bridge.
DoGGa
31 Jul 06 at 9:21 pm
I thought that was just a Fallacy / phallacy
Max
31 Jul 06 at 10:21 pm
jej! wy!
That’s my approach to languages too. Charades is universal, context does a lot. Discourage people from using their intellectual minds and get them to engage you on an animal level, as a living being with needs, e.g. a burger or some salmiakki.
sweavo
1 Aug 06 at 9:03 am
Strangely, it didn’t work for the American guy who was trying to buy paper-clips from the burger grill. (I am not making this up… ask Kronky)
stu
1 Aug 06 at 9:07 am
That’s because American body language ALways says “I am an asshole. I think you’re an asshole too!” no matter how nice the actual American…
sweavo
2 Aug 06 at 2:36 pm
And however much miming you do, the guy at the burger grill is _not_ expecting the context to involve paper clips.
stu
2 Aug 06 at 2:40 pm