Continuing on from yesterday's big one-month worth of ketchup, I mean catch up, I forgot to mention that even though I didn't get into the RA team for next year, I was invited to the training session in mid-November anyway. And it didn't have any of those sorta lame, Year 9 'team building' exercises either!
There were 30 of us, all from different backgrouds and different countries, too. Of course I found it hard to memorise all the names, but after 2 days of an NZ Army conditioning course, making a 10 second marble run, speed dating in character, and a high-altitude cargo net climb, you get to know a lot of people (and also the number of people that are afraid of heights, more than I thought!). In short I hear more about my possible acceptance hopefully by the end of the year, and since my accomodation organisation rides on it, there's not a lot of room for error.
And now, some facts from the past few days:
FACT: I have a job.
FACT: It's back where I was last holidays.
FACT: It's not clean unless it's Pine O'Clean.
And now I'm getting stuck into my holiday projects, one of which you'll see next week!
Amidst the reports of Kate Middleton not wearing her engagement ring in public and the mining explosion down in Greymouth, it seems that not many people coming into the gaming section where I work realise the Kinect was only released in New Zealand less than a week ago. Don't get me wrong, the news from Greymouth is quite shocking considering the Chilean mining tradgedy just concluded about a month or so ago... and it's bad enough to know a 17 year old who apparently was having his first day underground is trapped down there, but as a gamer I personally find new releases of technology a lot more interesting.
I mentioned the Kinect (previously Project Natal) in this blog when it was talked about during E3 back in June, just how it was pushing the industry a bit further going completely controller-less. I will add that I have played on the Kinect in-store and to my surprise, it was a lot less buggy than I'd thought. You don't even have to stand in one predefined spot, because if you move, say, 15cm to the left, it can still track you with great precision and even warn you that you're close to the camera's boundaries. Of course, with so many people coming and going it's hard to get a good demonstration going because the people are all different heights and ages, but the general idea is that this full body motion gameplay is a) amazing, b) a good workout, and unfortunately, c) quite expensive. Considering if you already own an Xbox 360, it's pushing the $200+ envelope, it's hard to justify to people that if you're starting out fresh you'll need to fork out at least $700 for a decent console set-up. I can see this going quite far, and now Nintendo and Sony have some ground to make up. It'll be interesting to see how Sony goes about marketing it's Wii, I mean, Move, remotes.
This Week's Watch
Another two magicians, in a nutshell. Barry and Stuart's mix of magic and comedy is quite an entertaining combination!
Next post on Sunday... mainly because I haven't started planning it yet, and it might take a while!
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