Sunday, May 30, 2010

Do People Actually Win On King.com

World of goo ... ood.

is that there is still a small minority who do not feel eclipsed by the new consoles touch pocket or Wii powerful, and still wearing the arrows keys on the computer. For those who get in usually Minijuegos for more than just for playing poker ( specifically to block a shot down, despair balancing towers or save the oranges putrefaction and other games of skill ) I dedicate this new discovery recreational : World of Goo available for Windows , Mac and Linux.
















We are in a colorful world at the same dark, which awakened a few sticky-eyed balls that emit noises of dearest. These balls have to be grouped for erect a structure for which a minimum of balls remaining, must reach a pipe. This game, simplicity worrying because you only need the mouse to control it, is based on a story surreal and disconcerting created in a moment of creative ecstasy post-binge (humor with high freak, so here rather post- conciertoStarWars ). Neither

currades dialogues or devious strategies or graficazos of death, or sand and blood spattering the screen, or zombies based digitization of photographs of bodies (the latter just me invented, but it would be perfectly feasible ... if not for the gore of rediscover your grandfather in Resident Evil ). But still, a game highly recommended. Again, the quality is not at odds with the precarious budget independent projects.


  • Bajao the demo here (official website).
  • And here full game for Linux (the link for other operating systems is easier to find).

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Running 2 Cars Insurance

Shadow of the Wind, or history of a pen

I first read Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Here is my personal assessment (trying to be the least possible spoilérica-those who have read; which apparently left a hole, you have a spoiler-fledged )

Had to put a soundtrack to this novel (which is composed Zafón Pretty thin except for the first song ) would Le Matin by Yann Tiersen , which I think illustrates perfectly monochromatic atmosphere.

The novel is set in the Barcelona of the 20 and 30. A city full of buildings from the 14th century Modernism, bathed in the splendor of the music and the bustle of industrial buildings. An evocative and moving story whose protagonists are a city, a war, literature and the inevitability of love. The iconography film so characteristic of the novel, the image and likeness of Victorian London of Dickens, create a virtual scenario, an urban phantasmagoria that lets you hold the melodrama and ends that used to build characters and intrigue. As an example, the sites have connotations of dramatic efficacy: the old railway stations which are presented as vehicles of escape to another life away from the pain that exudes the city, or the Castle of Montjuïc, another type of vehicle that does not offer any return.

classic is a real tragedy that has the tear component as bait for the reader. It is a book that looks like a generalized mass : who is unaware of the city, the atmosphere built around its streets and avenues, who has not experienced civil war, offering a slight historical perspective to help understand the anguish and hopeless attitude of some people , as the father of Daniel, and who knows both places, allowing more so involved in climate zafoniense Gothic.

For this reason, I lack deepen the historical character of the novel : provides a surface treatment, arguing that the war in the streets he lived far away, with some shooting another at midnight and a widespread feeling that Life went with near-absolute normality. The writer says that after the war, a climate of shame and cowardice, for fear the result of the miseries been forced into silence and rotate the view to the Mediterranean. It is also true that features personal stories that just need some contextual dye as for a man who discovers that a 17-year love to a corpse who perished along with their son, little care about the military strategies of the Civil War.

The plot, in my opinion, very well structured and organized, with its temporal leaps that weave the story to escape the predictability and increasing the suspense of the play. However, it offers too easily on the task spinning to explain the outcome of the book, the absolute truth in first person and in an orderly and very detailed, especially unboosted reconstructive ability reader.

fluency and easy lively prose (though poetic) in line with his previous novels for young does not simplify the story, but a vision of innocence that the hands of an inexperienced player is absolutely true and invites us to grow and fully integrate it in that languid Barcelona 30.

As for the characters, except Fermin, whose personality is quite different caricatured and defined, in general are overly simplified and abducted by their actions. underlines the protagonist, who should grab one-tenth of the attention that captures Julian Carax, the narrated life and miracles. It is also true that Daniel intended to find information about the writer's life, so it's fairly logical that this appears in the foreground during the 600 pages; but the story is first reduced to the overcoming of cowardice against a second love story pure and idyllic that stands in the death.

short, this is a good novel aimed at readers of all kinds, especially those without impediment clineex supply spend. Personally I am left with the intention of the reader to reflect that interpretation reading is given by the reader's literary experience and their own convictions, that is, that the book is a mirror (concave, I would say) and we can only find in it what we already carry inside .

Now it's game angels l.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Boatneck Sweater Patterns

Garland How beautiful!

Sevilla not have a particular color, rather it has a smell, and not floral. Horse carts are more sought after than the actual city tram. Both travel the same crowded and photographed places, but the grace of ir a 20 por hora delante de un autobús y que en vez de pitarte , te salude emocionado, es para gastarse esos 100 pavos que cuesta la hora de paseíto .

Lunares, rayas, colores viv os y floripondios decoraban tanto cuerpos españolitos de curvas marcadas como escuálidos talles de proveniencia escandinava. Pero esa g uirización , de la que pocas ciudades turísticas se salvan, no había conseguido inmiscuirse en una recóndita zona de Triana ; una que, Despite the fame, kept the essence of Andalusia ridiculously imitated in the heart by the Chinese carnations and arrows in the middle of the street (I would first caution.) speak of the April Fair.

is not hard to reach the fair, just go after the babies dressed in costumes. For starters, they should distribute maps to entry, because only manage to find a stand among the thousands of guiding you through the streets. When you locate a public one, and tail of the women's bathroom alone does not fill the place, you can spend hours pretending to dance Sevillanas, folklore and flamenco, and do not miss the Caribbean that Mix chasing you for years immemorial in coastal trips. But always be relegated to enjoy Seville really from the street and the safety fichándote happen if you go to the dugout without accreditation. As it is clear that rebujito not tasting in industrial quantities if you do not know any native, is you stroll the area attractions, a concentration of all peoples fairground gypsies Madrid with a low bid, however, mainly based in the octopus with several names. Of course, nobody takes the catwalk Cibeles street, with those stunning outfits and " flyers "who end up with mud up to their ears, unlike the comb and the bun, who return home untouched and unspoiled possibly because of ozone average load in an afternoon ...

- Mirala face to face, which is the priiimeeeraaa ! - The Seville speak of conquest, and how could it be otherwise, I Sevilla has won me the first time. We'll see if the next time you come, I do over budget and time in the pocket, and I can see more of Seville gastronomy that iced lemon and McDonalds burger .