Twinsen!

After about two years of trying to get the old classic Twinsen to play on multiple versions of windows, I sat down and did a web search to see if anyone else had a solution. Apparently I am not alone in my love of Twinsens Adventure. There are whole chat sites devoted to it....and you can't get it to play under windows (its a DOS game). Unless of course you get the patch someone has written just so you can play it on the more advanced computers. They've even put a maximum speed limiter on it so the faster processors don't make it run too fast. Last night I played it for a whole hour (after reading some papers for my thesis).

The only issue I have is the very weird save game system that I'd forgotten about. Its very easy to screw something up and not be able to go back to an earlier version. You have to save a copy and then you play the original. If you screw up, make a copy of the copy before you play it or you could end up screwing up again and the original copy will be updated with the screw up.

Speaking of my thesis, I'm currently enjoying writing lit review and feeling frustrated if I have to go do something else....weird...must take advantage of this aberation and go write some more :)

As I write....

As I write my thesis, I find more and more papers that cover more and more stuff, and reference more and more papers I have not come across yet. How can this be? Before I was seriously writing and was only looking for general reviews and specific stuff regarding what I wanted to experiment on, I couldn't find 1/2 of what I wanted, let alone all this extra stuff.
I remember saying, this will be an easy subject to literature review, there's not much literature....ha ha ha ha.

Was it just that my searches were too finely focussed? As I recall, I was searching for "bacteriophage". Maybe I was just blind to things that didn't sound, in my ignorance, to be relevant to my subject...sigh. I have 4 inches of papers to go through at the moment (just my A priority ones) and I can't get through more than 2 per day as I keep zooming off finding more related to them, then more related to those. And now that the 45 page review I just found has finished printing. I think I'll take it home to read.

I'd put it up as an ID pic if I could figure out how in 5 minutes

This is the hat that won me a bottle of champers yesterday.

I win alcohol - ironic.

Twice in the last six months I have won alcohol...and I don't drink. Why oh why does this not transfer to winning flights to Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane that are being drawn every day in the local bulletin?

First it was a bottle of 20yr old 100pipers scotch whiskey (now in my cupboard for my brother for Christmas) and today at the Melbourne cup luncheon I won the best hat competition. I raided my herb garden this morning and covered my brown straw hat with all the flowering herbs - fennel, chives, thyme - and then added roses and grandfathers whiskers and a few other odds and sods. I now am the possessor of a bottle of Killawarra brut. It may end up my contribution to the christmas hamper.