I imagine my first book would be useful in a dorm room. You could use 30 pages of it to penny someone’s door, for example. Sometimes toilet (or rolling) paper runs low. The index might make for an inspiring game of Pictionary.
Or you could get your picture taken with it. That’s what was done by River, who I assume was named after a Firefly character.
Note the other books in the background: she’s my kinda gal. Stay tuned: she’s starting up a psych blog called PsyGeek.
So, do you own a copy of the book? Take a picture of yourself holding it in some fun location, send it to me, and I’ll post it here!
December 28th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Even better than the books, did you notice the little stack of games? Orange box!
December 28th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Plus Bioshock and Mass Effect!
December 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
ORANGE BOX R00LeZ!
December 28th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately registered the quality level of the games. River wins.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
World of Warcraft is also tucked in there alongside a couple games that I don’t recognize…
December 28th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I’m in love.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Games?? You call those games?? Pah!
C’mon, guys, where is BattleTech? Where is Traveller? Where is Warhammer 40,000?
December 28th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
You bunch of geeks!
There is a girl in that picture.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Halcyon, I noticed that! River is cute! River, my number is ………………..Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Sorry, so tired, up late listening to some guy on a weird radio show…. where was I?
December 28th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
She writes poetry…recherché poetry!
Are those really her games?
December 28th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Those boxes on the right: Guild Wars! You have the classiest readers, ’tis true…
December 28th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Hey, shouldn’t this be Part IX?
December 28th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Anyone notice the tag line, “pretty pictures”? Is Phil referring to River or his book?
December 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Yes, those games really are my games.
I’ve even made a Portal ringtone for my phone.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I like the Crazy Albert mouse pad. Where did you get that?
December 28th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
wow a girl gamer! see games aren’t just for men! women like them too!
December 28th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I am playing HL2: episode one on my XBox 360. Even though I am enjoying it, I can still understand its limited appeal and am actually looking forward to games with characters you can have a conversation with.
One day, games will make me cry.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
You guys must have waaaayyyyy to much time on your hands. I can’t even see the games!
I guess I need to buy an xbox 360, PS 3, and wii, just to be fashionable!
December 29th, 2007 at 12:28 am
I’m sure that if she was my age, she would be a former Amiga user.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Thomas, I remember my first gaming machine, a VIC 20. (She may not know what that is/was.)
December 29th, 2007 at 4:48 am
Michael, I started dreaming about getting a Sinclair ZX80 and later a VIC 20, but it wasn’t until Commodore 64 came that I stepped into the computer world.
The company I work for now used to have their main products with a Z80 chip as the core processor. It used to excite me to no end not only was I working with that ground breaking processor, I was doing it for practical purposes and getting paid to do it too.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Thomas, I find it amazing that people are still using those old machines for some very practical purposes! I came across a website several months ago devoted to retro-computing, and, boy did that bring back memories. I had a friend in High School (early ’80′s) that built Apple compatible machines in his basement. Everyone laughed at him. I used to work at Radio Shack, selling the old Tandy Computers! My first “real” computer was a TX 1000, 286 processor.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
VICs? TX1000s? Huh? My first game machine was a PDP-1.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
PDP-1?
I just had to wiki that to see if it was the latest game machine. Apparently it was the first!
December 30th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Buzz, I never saw a PDP-1, but I have used (briefly) a PDP-11. It had four hard discs (14″ platters, none of the namby-pamby micro mini stuff you get these days), which each had a capacity of 1 MB per side. That was a whole 8 MB of disc space. It also had two 8″ floppy drives.
One day, it suffered a head crash on disc 0 (i.e. the first disc it accesses during boot-up, so it could no longer find out where the OS was stored). You could actually see the groove the head had carved in the disc.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
I programmed PDP-11s in FORTRAN for years. Now I can’t get a job as a FORTRAN programmer. Only scientists appear to use the language any more, and they don’t seem to hire programmers to do their programming. *sigh*