{"id":310,"date":"2010-02-07T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:16:57","slug":"all-sound-and-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"All Sound and Fury&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Furries.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who is a furry, and this shall serve as a shout-out to him. ;)<\/p>\n<p>So, what I&#8217;m trying to get at is that basically I have all kinds of projects on the back burner and here I am during the weekend and I&#8217;m playing games on the computer.  Specifically, I&#8217;m playing a neat Solitaire card game I got called &#8220;Nestor&#8221; for the Amiga.  It&#8217;s freeware, so Google it if you have an Amiga emulator and the Amiga Kickstart ROM version 1.3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nestor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-311\" title=\"Nestor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nestor-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nestor-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nestor-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Nestor.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You click to select cards in pairs, and the object is to get all 52 cards in the bottom row.  This reminds me of that Sega Saturn I bought.  The game I&#8217;ve played most often on that is a Solitaire style game with Mahjongg tiles.  A coworker of mine commented that I bought a $300 Mahjongg machine.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this neat little Nestor game should keep me occupied at work on my breaks.  I keep a netbook there, so I can play games if I so choose.  Most of the games I play are either strategy games or little card and puzzle games like this.  Civilization II is really too deep to get into on breaks anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m playing Nestor until I get sick of it, I should be working on another project of mine.  A couple of months ago, there was an object offered on e-bay that I sorely wanted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FEMBOT_MODEL_DOLL_HEAD_PROFILEPIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-312\" title=\"FEMBOT_MODEL_DOLL_HEAD_PROFILEPIC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FEMBOT_MODEL_DOLL_HEAD_PROFILEPIC-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FEMBOT_MODEL_DOLL_HEAD_PROFILEPIC-242x300.jpg 242w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FEMBOT_MODEL_DOLL_HEAD_PROFILEPIC.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get it, and I&#8217;m kind of glad now.  It went for $510 freaking US dollars!  Yikes!  I went and bought all the parts I need to make my own.  All I need right now is a glue gun and some time.<\/p>\n<p>Let me rephrase that.  I need time when I don&#8217;t have another one of these god damned Chinook headaches.  Grumble grumble grumble.  Some day, I&#8217;ll take pics of the parts I have assembled for my own fembot head project.  Some day I&#8217;ll assemble them and post the pics as a how-to.<\/p>\n<p>But it will have to wait.  I have another day off soon, thanks to the Alberta gubment.  I hope I feel good then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Furries. I have a friend who is a furry, and this shall serve as a shout-out to him. ;) So, what I&#8217;m trying to get at is that basically I have all kinds of projects on the back burner and here I am during the weekend and I&#8217;m playing games on the computer. 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