As a lot of the people reading this site know, I am a translator. This means that most of the time I have the pleasure of working at home. It also means that I am practically glued to my PC for the better part of a day. If I don’t actually have any work to […]
Author Archives: Ttancm
Free Homebrew Game – Darkest Island
January 21, 2007 – 5:34 am
[inspic=239,left,fullscreen,thumb][inspic=238,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] Darkest Island, a homebrew 1st person shooter game created by someone and available for free download. I finally finished Darkest Island over the weekend, and was able to give it to my friends and family as a late Christmas present. My little brother was very adamant about releasing this game online for people to […]
Abandoned Amusement Parks
January 20, 2007 – 5:15 am
[mygal=amusementpark] Website of a Japanese photographer who does a series on “ruin”. As part of that series he took a ton of pictures of abandoned amusement parks. The website is mostly in Japanese but it’s easy enough to navigate. The white buttons at the bottom of each photo page are “Contents” “Previous” and “Next”. [inspic=225,,,0] […]
Dolphin Olympics
January 19, 2007 – 5:08 am
[inspic=224,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] Here’s a neat little web-based flash game where you play a dolphin and have to control it to swim and jump and do tricks. A little hard to get used to the controls at first, but after a few tries it’s a lot of fun. http://www.rawkins.com/games/do/index.html
Helm’s Deep in Candy
January 18, 2007 – 3:55 am
[inspic=223,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] This has been making the rounds in the “blogosphere” lately. This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien. Pictures and […]
