It seems I am due to write another post. Since my Two Things post went down so well I’m going to do a similar one. 

Listening to: EdGuy. These guys are pretty old, but I recently discovered them while my music player was set to random play through our whole music collection. They’re a German Power Metal band, and I was orginally caught by their song Catch of The Century, about how how a record company turned them down and how EdGuy felt the Company was missing out. Some of their songs are serious and some of them are just for fun, but I’m loving the whole 80′s feel to the music.

Watching: Stoppit and Tidy-Up. This is a cute kids cartoon made by CMTB Animation and narrated by Terry Wogan. Each episode is only like 5 mins long and one of those is taken up by the intro. The cartoon is about Stoppit and Tidy-Up, two characters that live in the land of Do As You’re Told, with such friends as Comb Your Hair, Don’t Do That and the Big, Bad I Said NO. I’m really enjoying watching it again after all these years, and I think it’s actually better now, since I’m older and can appreciate some of the slight sarcasm in the narrating. My kids will definitely be watching this. I’ve also been lent Trap Door to watch )a claymation by the same people), and I’m trying to get hold of Bucky O’Hare and the Righteous Indignation, but those will be covered in seperate posts.

Reading: Art of Community by Jono Bacon. This is pretty much what it says on the tin. Jono Bacon, formerly of LUG Radio now Cananonical Community Manager, has written a book about how to make sure the community you founded or helped found doesn’t run out of steam or interest, as well as other interesting skils needed, things to look out for and ways to deal with issues, all told in his classic amusing anecdotal fasion. I’m only a couple of chapters in but so far I’m liking it and finding it very useful. 

Playing: Planet in a bottle (on my phone)
Planet in a bottle is a pet survival style game, but instead of a pet you have a whole planet. You have to make it rain and turn the sun on and off to keep your planet heathy and happy. To much or to little the population doesn’t grow and the people get unhappy. as the population grows you can see houses and factories appear in the planet’s surface. There are also achivments to gain such as Survior novice (keeping the planet alive for a day)  all the way to bottle god (get a population of 19000 within a month). It’s silly and fun and doesn’t require a great deal of effort to play. It’s a good distraction when you’re bored, so I like it.

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