A Fun Distraction

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A Fun Distraction

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December 15, 2016 at 10:42 pm

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PAH-440118 Ten Centuries Points: 1292 More actions · Answer 1

ROUGE 1! :alien:

Really hope I get to see this film on the Big screen. Also hope I get to spend time with my family. My kids are 17 years old but we still love playing board games so with luck we will get a chance to play again.

Have a good break, a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 2

Rougue One (booked)
10 day holiday in Lanzarote to recharge after too many hours this year (leave on Tuesday!!!)
Time with the family (see above)
Finish some books I have started (besides pool)
Continue new fitness regime - already started on cross trainer (continue in pool)
Paperwork catchup to start 2017 in a better position than I did 2016
Write editorials for SSC (not creeping, I really do have a couple of ~~bad~~ ideas)
Cocktails

Merry Christmas all!!!

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

call.copse SSCoach Points: 18064 More actions · Answer 3

Christmas means going to the football (soccer), at least for me in the UK. With the young lad, and friends.

~~Getting absolutely leathered~~ A few enjoyable cocktails and interesting craft beers with various esteemed colleagues and associates

Building lego and other contraptions with the kids - I've got a great marble run to build. Can't wait until they are old enough to do some Mindstorms - I'm holding off a year or two.

Books - I'm going to finally read the last 2 books of the Hyperion series, also Cialdini's new work, Pre-suasion.

Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/15/2016)
...watch some of the classic sci fi[/url]...

Watched most but less than I guessed I would have done. Good list. Good avoid list too - I have suffered some of them and can concur.

Gaz

-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23008 More actions · Answer 5

It's Rogue One tomorrow night for me.

Sunday is a day with the family on the local preserved railway. There's Santa Special trips and we're going along to see the niece and nephews. I think there might be a couple of beers required after that experience.

The whole clan is going away for New Year to a house in the South Lakes. There'll be eleven of us and a bump all under the same (large) roof for a week. We just need to find a way to keep my mother out of the kitchen for the duration. So far the best idea is to bury her under a pile of grandkids.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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Gary Stacey SSC Eights! Points: 999 More actions · Answer 6

I can confirm that Rogue One is very, very good 😉

Good list of films that, there are a few on the 'good list' that I haven't seen yet, and I've always wanted to see Zardoz.

Geoff.Sturdy Ten Centuries Points: 1234 More actions · Answer 7

Midnight Mass

and then (post turkey ) some PC gaming catch-up:

Fallout4

Deus Ex Mankind Divided

Civilisation 6

Wolfenstein : new world order

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246977 More actions · Answer 8

PAH-440118 (12/16/2016)
ROUGE 1! :alien:
Really hope I get to see this film on the Big screen.

I must admit to wondering whether this was some dodgy French film I needed to track down :hehe:

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Martin Rees

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
Stan Laurel

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23008 More actions · Answer 9

Phil Parkin (12/16/2016)
PAH-440118 (12/16/2016)
ROUGE 1! :alien:
Really hope I get to see this film on the Big screen.
I must admit to wondering whether this was some dodgy French film I needed to track down :hehe:

They can be pretty quick with the parodies these days, apparently....

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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paul.kemner SSChasing Mays Points: 648 More actions · Answer 10

I'll be writing up some workshop proposals for Penguicon 2017, for the writing and anime tracks. And completing a couple musical instrument cases, and trying to get some practicing done.

For SF, I'd recommend the anime series Planetes- it's 'realistic' in its approach, with good storyline and characters, but there probably isn't a lot to appeal to little kids.

Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 11

Geoff.Sturdy (12/16/2016) some PC gaming catch-up:
Fallout4
Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Civilisation 6
Wolfenstein : new world order

HELLO. I'm going to see if these will run on my current crappy laptop.

Rogue One this evening for me.

Geoff.Sturdy Ten Centuries Points: 1234 More actions · Answer 12

Hi Beatrix

They are all 64-bit games , I had to buy a new PC (the first in 10 years) in order to run them

Beatrix Kiddo SSC-Dedicated Points: 32407 More actions · Answer 13

How do you think they'd run on a new Mac* (with DualBoot or something)? My Windows machine has genuinely started wheezing recently.

* I don't have one yet 😀

Geoff.Sturdy Ten Centuries Points: 1234 More actions · Answer 14

don't really know much about Macs - it might be a good move to google it 😉