May. 27th, 2009

jack: (Default)
I had a lovely evening at alex's games evening.

1. I played Agricola (new German-type board game) for the second time ever, and didn't really do very well, but it's fun and easy to play the second time: already, even if you can't play well, it's easy to form a strategy and to play quickly and sensibly. Definitely play again.

2. Douglas brought and unfolded in the living room a collapsible play pen, complete with toys and baby, who wandered round, just able to stand up holding on to someone's hand for balance, but only a little bit of support.

3. I saw a game of magic which made me laugh out loud several times. It pleases me humour can come in such a wide variety of media.

4. I played three games of (9x9) Go, for the first time since I was about second year. The first I played second and lost, the second I played first and lost by one point, and the third I played first and won by eight points. I almost feel I'd like to play Go again, as it's a sophisticated game but one it's fairly easy to get into, although I remember feeling a bit intimidated the few times I played Go players who really were better than me.

Netbook

May. 27th, 2009 01:36 am
jack: (haylp)
I'm thinking seriously of getting a netbook. (A netbook is a mini-mini laptop. The first famous was the Eee PC (sp?) which was ~£200, easy to use, had flash memory (?) and a reliable linux distribution (?))

Either whatever the best one I can for £200, or a more up-to-date one if I'm convinced I need it. I'm not sure exactly how I'd use it, but I think for grabbing when I know I'm going to be out, commuting or travelling all day and want to spod/hack.

Does anyone have any good advice? (Either for which one to get, or whether to get one at all, as opposed to a large mobile phone or a small laptop?)