Week of 3rd July 2011

I lost most of my posts from Wordpress so I am starting again.......

A lot more Books/TV/Games was done this week as I am now on a two week holiday.....

TV Shows watched:

Normally I post books read first, but this time I watched a TV show based off a book first.....

The Main reason I
watched this show (actor)

Game Of Thrones

I was bugged by friends from work about this, "You MUST watch this" "You love 'Lord of the Rings' right? You will like this" etc.. I held out knowing that HBO did this and have to add sex scenes just to get ratings (see Dexter, True Blood). I finally caved in and watched it,  I am hooked.

Now I have read the first book of this series (which covers the first season), I hated how HBO added the upfront sex scenes as they never happened in the book, only mentioned or implied. For example the Imp was never shown having sex with whores in the book (he did mention that whores will be disappointed if he became a Night Watch, that was it)

The rest of the series is great. Even the events of 'Ned' Stark at the end of the series wasn't changed from the book which was good... sad but good.....

The Daily Show

I watch this every day. Even if you do not follow US politics it if a very funny show. I have watched all ep's from 2001 onwards. Local TV (ABC2) for a few months showed this, but got rid of it for re-runs of other ABC shows, so I am forced to just d/l then when their air in the US.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Space

I have had this for 6 months now but since I am on holidays, I have the time to watch it (since it is not dubbed I can't have it playing in the background while I do other things, I have to sit there and watch it to read the subtitles hehehehehe). Only up to ep 3 at the moment. At first it seems that it a simple silly anime, but the production value is good (very good use of 3D). I hope to finish watching this before the next update.

Book/eBooks read:

Game of Thrones

The first book of the series 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and also now turned into the TV show on HBO (See above) 'A Game Of Thrones'. Since I read this after seeing season one, I was surprised at how close it followed the book (minus the sex scenes).

A Clash of Kings

Not wanting to wait for season two of 'Game Of Thrones', I started to read 'A Clash Of Kings'. I am about half way through this book I wont say too much as I haven't finished it yet. But the fate of some of the people are gripping, I am trying not to skip chapters on lesser people to fine out what happens to others.

Games Played:

Oh great, almost half way through my holidays and Steam desides to hold a 10 day sale with too many games to play. While I am writting this I am d/l a couple now which will have to wait till the next update.

Mass Effect

I have played this before on the XBox 360. Since it was cheap on Steam, plus ME2 is also cheap, I decided to keep playing this on the PC, as it uses the save game of the ME1 (and the upcoming ME3 will use the save game of ME2). 

City XL 2011

The nearest thing to Sim City 4. Currently playing the tutorial levels, but so far a good game, almost like it what Sim City 5 should be like.

Cities In Motion

Almost like Sim City 4 but centered around just the public transport side of things. Like City XL 2011, I am playing through the tutorial missions. More info next update.

Minecraft

1.7 was just released at the writing of this. No time to update my Multiplayer server and try out the new Pistons. May get around to it by next update.

Other Updates:

I am currently building a MAME Arcade machine. While on my two week holidays I finally got some work done one the cabinet frame. I should start installing the computer parts this weekend.