How to succeed at Lan Parties

1. Turn up late.
2. Bring your own game.
3. Play your game until it looks like you might lose.
4. Leave.

It worked for me. Hull ComSoc had a lan party today. They had Halo 3, Quake, Wii Tennis, Guitar Hero, in fact all kinds of games. I took along my copy of Virtua Tennis for the PS/3 and played a few games, which was nice. I kept carefully away from all the games I was less good at (i.e. everything else) and managed to make sure I didn't lose. Wonderful. And you don't have "friendly fire" in tennis. I did take the camera though, and grabbed some snaps.

Halo 3 multiplayer semi final. Tight stuff.

A tense moment in the final

Mission Control

Magic spread a bit thin

I saw this today up town. "Experience the Magic of Light" eh? All together - "It's just a flashlight".

They don't seem to have sold many.....

XNA Book Already Cheap

Amazon are discounting "the book". I've already ordered my copy. I want to find out how it ends....

Food for gameplay

Went out today and bought some cheese, tomatoes, a green pepper and a stick of bread. They are all going to star in Chapter 9 of the XNA book....

Hull Fair Heights

Hull Fair is one of the biggest fairs in Europe. Which attractions are there? All of them. We went tonight, and I took the medium sized camera. I conquered my fear of heights and parting with money to buy a seat on one of the two big wheels, and grab some overhead shots of the action.

Just a small part of the fair. You can see the Humber Bridge on the horizon.

More of the fair. We didn't get around to going on the other big wheel you can see in the distance.

My kind of game of chance, a prize every time..

Probably my favourite of the trip, although there are some other ones that I like on Flickr.