Day: February 6, 2007

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World Record – Guitar Playing?

Check out this article from NME:

Guitarists attempt to break rock record

Record-breaking bid set for London

London department store Harrods is hosting a bid to break an unusual rock record.

The store will attempt to beat the world record for the most guitarists playing one song simultaneously.

Harrods, based in Knighstbridge, hopes to get 2,000 guitarists to perform Deep Purple‘s ‘Smoke On The Water’ at 8am on February 18.

The existing record was set in Vancouver in 1994, where 1,322 guitarists took part.

The attempt is part of the ‘Harrods Rocks’ season, which runs from February 1 to March 3, and participants in the attempt will receive complimentary earplugs and a free T-shirt and plectrum.

For more information, and to register to take part, visit harrods.com.

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This is amazing! I want to find out more about the Vancouver world record! I wish I could take part in this world record setting. So cool! An excellent song choice also!

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Memory: Old Sierra Games

Bonus! I just won a few EBay items (and hopefully one more coming this morning) in the form of some old King’s Quest games.

My love for the King’s Quest series (as well as the other Sierra games) knows no bounds. When I was younger, I never owned any of the actual games, just the copies (*gasp*).

I have a found memory of going to the Dixie Mall with the family one summer and stumbling across Police Quest 2. I think I still have the original receipt with it! I wonder how much I paid for it…

I remember countless hours of Marc and I trying to beat Police Quest. One of us would move the guy around with the joystick and the other would type. That was heavy teamwork back in the day.

I just stumbled upon an application called DosBox which emulates the Dos environment. I then installed some old games like Quest for Glory and Leisure Suit Larry and am having the time of my life playing them so far. Some people may think it’s odd that I get a kick out of these old school games, but I love them. It brings back my childhood. When I say countless hours were spent on them, I really do mean countless hours. I remember one summer when we had the Tandy 1000, every morning I would get up and beat King’s Quest because it was such a fast game to beat once you knew how to do everything. I think I timed it so I could go eat lunch after I completed it. I also remember doing the same with Ninja Gaiden II. MAN, I could beat that game with my eyes closed. I tried playing it last year and I was pretty well awful in the game playing department. However, I know that the skill is within me somewhere.

Anyhow, I’ve been looking into the old Sierra games and what they go for on EBay for awhile now and picked these two up for a steal. Heck, one of them even runs off of 5 1/4″ discs! I wouldn’t even be able to play them if I wanted to! In reality, if I ever want to play them, I’ll just download them off the Internet, but I am glad to have a piece of history coming my way. Perhaps I’ll build a shelf for the games…

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Dang Blue Sock!

In the haze which is the morning hour when I awake from my slumber, there is little light in my room. To begin with, there is only a bedside lamp shedding rays of illumination towards the far corners of my room. Most of the time, I cannot even see the corner of my room. One day, it was sunny out and I rose the blinds to find that a family of geese had settled into the corner of my room! Considering I haven’t noticed them before, I just let them be and threw them some of Mike’s food items from the fridge.

So, one would hypothesize that the solution to my dilemna would be to invest in a new lamp. That’s an excellent point but one that I am always forgetting to do.

The flaw in my dimly lit room is when I grab stuff in the morning, sometimes I find…they do not match.

For example, ONCE AGAIN, I have a blue sock on this morning next to a black sock. I don’t even know how I have come to inherit a black sock as my system is a fine one – Buy white, buy black. Then, in the morning, all you have to do is reach in and pull out the right shade of sock. I don’t care if a sock doesn’t match. It’s not like they have fancy designs on them.

But somewhere along the trek which is life, I have inherited a blue sock and I swear it ends up on my foot every few weeks and I swear each time to throw it in the trash. But by the time slumber comes henceforth (10 Palmer points if you can identify where that line comes from), I forget that I have the blue sock on when I throw it into the hamper.

Palmer’s life is fraught full of little bits of irritation. In the grand scheme of life, is it worse than…an agent of SPECTRE after me? Heavens no! But I do live in fear that someone will realize I have two different socks on.

At least it’s not as bad as one day at work I noticed some guy had two different shoes on. That made my day.

iplaying: Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin III)