I got woken up at six by some very heavy rain, feeling grateful that we'd got the shed roof sorted yesterday, and then promptly nodded off back to sleep for a much needed extra two hours. Bliss.
After a shower and a nommy bacon sarnie with green habanero sauce I cracked on with the T175 work that I'd neglected yesterday because of the aforementioned shed fixing activities. It was mostly looking at an IEEE article about the possible uses and dangers of networked micro-sensors in a variety of applications from biological to military. Interesting stuff.
In games news, I seem to have a veritable mountain of hardly played free games thanks to Appvent Calendar including 33rd Division (excellent stealth em up), Coastal Defense (naval type tower defense), Way of the Samurai (slice 'em up, with a nice graphical style) and Totemo (puzzle-a-thon). So, why have I just bought geoSpark then? Well, for one thing it's by the same people who wrote geoDefense and geoDefense:Swarm which is pretty much a seal of quality in my book. It turns out to be a pitch perfect casual game where you link chains of vector graphic-y sparks on the screen to score points. If two sparks of different colours collide, it's game over (man) so you have to strike a balance between clearing the screen quickly and racking up high scoring combos. Every time you die it's due to your own greed or carelessness rather than the game playing unfairly, which makes it all too easy to have the inevitable one more go. Utterly addictive, I fear.
In other news, I watched the animated Doctor Who episode Dreamland via iPlayer. It's a nice slice of classic 10th Doctor hokum set in 1950s New Mexico, featuring aliens (two different kinds), men in black, Area 51, ghost towns and a touch of Doctor Strangelove to boot. Well worth a watch if you missed it, as it was snuck out on CBBC via the red button.
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