I haven’t blogged in over a month and so the most natural thing to blog about is, of course, coffee. After all, coffee has been a recurring theme of my tweets and it’s also the key driving force behind The Secret World. Forget my contributions: without coffee, that game would never see the light of day.
Yesterday I bought myself a Nespresso machine. A Nespresso machine makes espresso using little capsules containing vacuum packed coffee. You don’t have to do much. You stick the capsule in, close the lid, make sure there’s water in the tank, and push a button. Voila – extremely tasty espresso in less than thirty seconds. It is, by far, the most amazing coffee you could possibly make at home without some serious barista skills, expensive equipment and tons of free time. It also comes with a brilliant milk frother which means you can make latte and cappuccino and, well, latte and cappuccino. And it takes less than two minutes in total. And doesn’t require you to be any good at anything whatsoever. It doesn’t even require any cleaning.
Did I mention that this is possibly the greatest invention of all time? Second only to penicillin and, possibly, the internet.
Today I’ve had three different espresso drinks and the only reason I stopped was because I was going into caffeine shock. It’s. That. Good.
I feel like I’ve joined some sort of cult because I keep telling people “oh, you must try it, it’ll change your life, honest, you’ll never look back”, and also because you need to join the sinister sounding ‘Nespresso Club’ to order capsules online, but then I’ve always wanted to be part of a cult, and at least this cult doesn’t require you to donate all your money to someone wearing sandals.
Recommended. Oh, and “hi, everyone!”.
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True story.
Rewind a good month and a bit. My noble and honest attempt at being a more active blogger was violently disrupted by a sudden and somewhat surprising infatuation with Twitter: a byte sized alternative, requiring significantly less thought and investment on my part, and consequently being significantly less fulfilling for you – like McDonald’s instead of wholesome home cooking.
Well it’s time to toss the Big Mac and put the potatoes on ’cause baby I’m home.
(Metaphorically speaking, of course, seeing as I have been home most of the time.)
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I typically start travelling at least twelve to eighteen hours before I actually start travelling. I get into the zone. That place where time starts to mean something different. I’m so used to being busy, running from place to place – meeting to meeting, appointment to appointment, home, work, home, sleep – that actually winding myself down to zero takes a while. And zero is where you need to be when you travel vast distances.
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First post of the new year, well into the new year; an entire 5% of 2009, in fact. What have you done with your five percent? What do you plan on doing with the remaining ninety-five percent?
Personally, I’m going to invest most of the next four weeks (or 8%) into The Secret World. We’ve recently made some Big Changes to the game and those need to be worked through. Direction is required. Funnily enough, that’s my job.
So what’s changing? Read more…
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A very happy/merry, peaceful and typically belated Christmas to everyone who reads this occasional blog! (Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas. I’m sure you celebrate something. Hanukkah. Kwanzaa. The inevitable return of the Great Old Ones.)
My two-week holiday is at its halfway point, which means that I can finally start being creative again. (The first week is all about mental and physical recovery. And catching up on sleep. I’m running behind on that last one, though.) It helps being out of the office; different walls to stare at, different ideas pop into my head. The project – y’know, the secret one – has been going through Changes lately, and those Changes are slowly trickling down to every aspect of the game: from user interface to story. And story, that’s proper holiday work. That’s staring at walls and thinking of Other Worlds and opening Doorways.
Three days until 2009. That’s the bloody future, that is.
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Music I purchased today:
Sigur Rós, Von. Feist, Let It Die. Mew, And the Glass Handed Kites. Coldplay, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
I don’t know why I haven’t bought Von before, since I have everything else by Sigur Rós – including their latest, Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (”with buzzing in our ears, we play endlessly”; great title, great album), but hey, new music to write to. I need music to write, and I get some of my best writing done to Sigur Rós.
(Also, my daughter loves it and falls asleep to Hvarf/Heim every night.)
The rest of the stuff I haven’t listened to yet, but I’ll get around to it soon. If there’s one thing I always have time for, it’s music. At the office, on the road, at the gym – I’m never without my iPod and my music library.
Music, My life
Thirty-six days.
I think that’s a new record. I did warn you. Granted, I didn’t think it’d be thirty-six days between posts, but there you go. A good month and a bit. One tenth of a year. Just because I’m posting today, however, doesn’t mean the drought’s over yet.
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For various personal and professional reasons, postings on this blog will remain infrequent for the time being – and no, I don’t know exactly what that means either. If I get around to it a couple of times a week, I’ll be ecstatic. Once a week, I’ll be very happy. Most likely it will vary quite a bit, depending on where my mind is at.
All promised features and articles are also on hold for the time being – on hold, but not forgotten. The blog isn’t dead, just in an occasional coma. Or restless hibernation. Something like that.
My apologies to all my regular readers, and for those of you who have sent me mail these past few months without getting an answer, I will get around to it. Eventually. I haven’t even been able to check through my inbox the past couple of weeks, but I’m going to start sorting through it one of these days.
(And if I do get around to making a couple of posts in the next week, consider it a bonus rather than a regular thing.)
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Deadish, but not actually dead. Far from it.
Also mightily embarrassed that it’s been three weeks since the last post.
(More later.)
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Whoops.
Ever had that strange sensation where you wake up and wonder where the last three weeks of your life disappeared to? I’m not talking about a coma; haven’t experienced one of those yet, and I hope I never will, unless it’s the kind of cool coma where you sleep for, like, a thousand years and wake up in the far future, with hovercars and bodycloning and immortality, and all your friends and family are there, recreated through the extraction of DNA from your possessions, and there are awesome virtual reality games and wormholes to other planets and talking cats. No, this is just a severe case of Timetheft, by some unknown — but probably super sexy — time ninja thief rogue person, and I woke up this morning thinking “holy effing shit, it’s December 27th, where did the days go?”.
Yes.
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