Who Goo?

I was delighted to find out that World Of Goo was released at year's end for the Android platform.  I really have gotten tired of killing waiting time, playing with thees bird guys (you know who) and my smartphone handles GooG Books ok, but it's a pain to read such a small amount at at time (read, scroll, read, overscroll and correct, read ...)

The game first appeared on the girls' Wii console, where I fell hard.  I drove our younger kid a little crazy because we each had our own controller, controlling the one process working on the screen.  If you've played with Wii controllers you know your motion guides the point on the screen; so if she was trying to move something and may hand twitched (as they do) it would put a wobble on her efforts.  DaaaaaaaaaaD!!

I can't win - our couldn't until now.  Because even if I can't play on my Droid, I now have a license on my PC so I can get my jollies without trespassing on the family media center downstairs.

Later Than I Thought!

OK, I'll cop to having spent most of the afternoon playing around with RockMelt. It is a time suck which I happily went along with.

And then I opened Chris Lang's note about Goog TV and fell into a page related to GooGle Friend Connect - that social butterfly assembled to let friends flow between their blog pages and elsewhere - and suddenly I realized 'McFly, that was not the right button.'

OK. I realized it after my friend Tracy Crawford Chatted me the question 'what the heck is this friend connect thing anyhow??

Relieved not to have put friends into some sort of honeypot trap, but embarrassed that I couldn't answer Tracy's question! And then ... curious... who DOES use Friend Connect, and WHY?

Warning - Addictive Time-Sucking Distraction

As some folks know, I can have an, er, attention maintenance issue from time to time.  No thanks to Tycho at Penny Arcade, I foundered up on and am ground up tight astride the reef that is Play Auditorium. 

I originally wrote this post in December 2008, when I was haunting my home office waiting for open-heart surgery to get done and I could get on with my life.  Anyway, I just came back this way and - cool!  Play Auditorium is still happening, now out of its pupal stage.  Check this thing out and see how cool it is.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bullets for California

Wired Magazine is reporting the progress in California on construction of a high-speed transport connecting North and South.  Anyone want to travel 220 MPH over CA fault lines?  Great idea, but like lasik surgery, I'll pass until release 2.0.