Weirdness with aluminum foil.

Stumbled across this earlier - it's a week or so old, so those of you who often read weird news stories may already be familiar with it. My favorite bit actually has nothing to do with the aluminum foil:

LT: Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a scientist. I used to wear a clip on bow tie and give lectures during lunch in high school, and everyone thought I'd be a professor. Then I had the aforementioned neuroscience internship, which was very prestigious. In a nutshell, it was horrid. I decided that I'd rather die starving in a gutter than risk working with people like that for the rest of my life.

HOW TO WRAP YOUR FRIEND'S APARTMENT IN TIN FOIL: A LOVE STORY.

Obsidian

Whether or not I upgrade my PC so I can play Uru, I've decided to replay the first 3 Myst games. Before embarking on that particular saga, however, I thought I'd play Obsidian again. Considering the fact that the only other time I ever played the game was a bit over 5 years ago, it was disturbing how much I remembered. It took me a total of about 6 hours to finish it. Almost all of the puzzles at least looked familiar, and some of them I could remember well enough to solve right away.

The archaic technology was sort of amusing. I had to install Quicktime 2.1.2.59 because the program was unable to recognize the current version. I had to change my display to 16 bit and 640x480. In spite of these handicaps, I thought the graphics actually held up pretty well. Of course, I haven't played a new PC game in about 2.5 years, so what do I know.

The first area is still the coolest, with it's wacky Brazil-like beaurocracy and associated weirdness. I'd forgotten about all of the extra stuff they jammed into that area. The computer system in the records department will play silly games with you, and the file cabinets are full of hundreds of fake documents with titles like "Regulations Governing Cone Rotation in Otherwise Non-Rotational Situations."

Anyway, in spite of the fact that it wasn't much of a challenge the second time through, I still enjoyed it. The story is nifty, and the visuals are in a nifty style even if they're low-tech graphics by today's standards.