2-HeadedGiraffe: Everyone Else Was Posting About Games, So...

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WARNING: Link below to a game with sexual content.

I found this online the other day:

Alter Ego

It's an online version of an old computer game (1986, originally released on the Commodore 64, PC, Apple II, and Macintosh). It's basically a text adventure, with a few very simple graphics. You get to live through a person's entire life, from birth to death, making all sorts of choices of how to react in different situations. I had tried to play it before on a C64 emulator, but disk switching wasn't working, so I could never go past the very beginning. It's an interesting little game to try at least once.



Mood: Happy
Music: None
Etc.: 4:50

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2-HeadedGiraffe: Another Tech Question

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I often use a two-monitor setup. It's really handy for watching videos on one monitor, or viewing multiple strips while I'm working on my comic or what have you. That's not the problem.

Sometimes when the computer goes into its "sleep" mode or whatever its called, when it comes back the pointer doesn't show up on one monitor. It can still interact with things if I can figure out where it is, but I can't see it. It's there, but the visual is missing. So far, I have found no way to get it back without restarting the computer.

If anyone knows why this would be happening or better yet how to fix it, please let me know. And yes, I realize the title of the post was "Another Tech Question" and I never phrased anything in the post as a question.

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2-HeadedGiraffe: Photography

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I went to install my digital camera software, and it says it's not compatible with Vista. It's a Kodak camera, and the software in question is Kodak EasyShare version 2.0. What I'm wondering and hoping someone out there in Ventilationland can tell me is whether there's any way to get this software working, or, if not, if it's possible to use the camera without it, using some other program or something. I've always used it with the default software, and it's the only digital camera I've had, so if this is a stupid question, forgive me. I just would like to know if and how I can use my camera on my Vista computer. If anyone has any thoughts on the matter, please let me know. Thank you.

Mood: Annoyed
Camera: Nonfunctioning
Vista: Home of Compatibility Issues

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2-HeadedGiraffe: On the Subject of As If Anyone Cares

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The title of my previous post "I Am A Happy Fish" could do with some explaining. It's a reference no one else would understand because only two other people were present when the original version was spoken, and neither of them read Vent. Also, they probably don't remember, and I haven't spoken to either of them in several years anyway.

Back in high school, a couple guys and I would get together usually once a week. Among other things, we liked to play D&D. Each of us liked to DM as well as to play, so generally we never got too far into any given campaign. Anyway, in one particular game being run by a guy we'll call "Daniel" because that was and probably still is his name, somehow we ended up meeting and talking with an ogre (could have been a troll). He gave us a message to take to his brother.

I don't remember all of it. Something or other relating to the story. I think the brother was supposed to let us into somewhere or other. The part that has always stuck with me, though, was what he said at the end.

"And tell Ernie to be a happy fish."

Ernie wasn't a fish (I think he was the other ogre).

For whatever reason, that stuck with me and now I think of happy things as fish sometimes, except when I think of them as grasses, in reference to Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, which contains a part where the main character, Valentine Michael Smith, I think his name was, learns that grass doesn't mind being walked on and he thinks of it as "the happy grasses."

Fish: Happy
Grasses: Happy
Trees: Happy

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2-HeadedGiraffe: I Am A Happy Fish

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By a random turn of links and whatnot on Wikipedia, I discovered that, despite everything I'd heard, they WILL be making Prince Caspian, the second film in the Chronicles of Naria. I thought the first one was very well done. Actually, for a somewhat older audience, especially someone who'd read the book multiple times when they were younger, the film of the first one may be even better than the book. It adds more detail to the action, which author C.S. Lewis glossed over in some parts and overall did an excellent job of brining it to life. The changes they made all make a lot of sense and generally improve the work without violating it. Lewis did an excellent job originally, but the books are obviously aimed at a younger audience, whereas the first film seemed to be crafted with a more general appeal. I will totally be going to see Prince Caspian in May of next year when it says it's scheduled to come out.

Mood: Excited
Feet: Sockless
Prince: Caspian

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