Friday five: Couch potato
\<!\[CDATA **1\. List your five favorite beverages.** Hmmm. This is a tricky one. I like wine, so do I say “wine” or “Pepperjack Shiraz 2000”? I think I’ll talk about general beverages, then mention a brand or two I like. Oooh ooh! Here we go:
I’d say that ice wine is my favourite beverage, by far. It’s like an angel pissing on your tongue. BC makes the most consistently good icewines in the world. Gehringer Brothers make a good one, and if you can find one by Wild Goose, get it. The Inniskillin brand is often good too.
The others don’t really follow any kind of order. Root Beer (sasperilla) is good, especially A&W brand. Yumm! I like a good hot chocolate, especially with marshmallows. I complain about Melbn a lot, but at least they know how to make a good hot chocolate here. That’s three. Erm, what else. Ooh! Earl Grey tea with a touch of honey and a wee bit of milk. Love that bergamot. And lastly, for sheer utilitarian reasons, you can’t beat a nice glass of water. I like that one can drink the tap water in Melbn.
2. List your five favorite websites. Mine. Duh. Fark is usually amusing, but not as funny as Melbourne weather. The CBC is the best place for news from Vancouver. Then there’s the recently-linked-to movies and music websites.
That’s more than 5. Whoops. And there’s still more too! 3. List your five favorite snack foods.
Apples. I like Apples. Dick Smith’s Temptin’s are like Tim-Tams, but better for the country. Lately, I’ve been eating lots of fruitcake. Yes, I like fruitcake. Insert joke here. I also really like Lebkuchen a lovely German Christmassy tasty thing. And hey. Chocolate rules any time of the day. 4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
Uno’s fun. However, the last time I played it, I had my ass kicked by an 11 year old. I’m not too sure if I like it anymore. Cribbage is fun too, and one of the best things my grandmother ever taught me. Pictionary is great fun, and, similarly, so is charades. Probably the most fun I’ve had playing a card game was a game of Mao with a bunch of drunks while camping. If you don’t know the rules, I’m not allowed to tell you. Just get 10 people together with some alcohol and a few decks of cards, and we’ll all play. 5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games.
I don’t much like most computer games, because they tend to use too many buttons. My favourite computer game of all time ran on my Palm III, and I tragically lost it (along with all my friend’s birthdays) due to catastrophic battery failure a few weeks ago. I can’t even remember what it’s called, but it only used one button. You’re a dot travelling through a cave-like thing. Press any button to go up, let go to go down. That’s it. Nothing else happens. I loved that game.
Next one is called Airburst. It uses three buttons, and there can be up to 4 players. You’re a thingo floating on balloons. Using a paddle, you deflect evil killing balls away from your balloons. If all your balloons pop, you fall down and die. Great fun and only 3 buttons.
How can I not mention Tetris? Four buttons. If anything, it’s produced a generation of people who are really good at packing a car’s boot.
SimCity and The Sims transcend the notion of buttons by providing a complete GUI. I used to have SimCity on my Palm III as well. I can even remember playing the original (and rather buggy) one on my Commodore 64.]]>