Ding 81

Oh my, Glömsk dinged 81 yesterday and I didn't even have to use both hands to do it. 8-)
I reckon it's nice to finally progress the character, experience wise. But Blizzard's made it almost (ALMOST I say) too easy.

I'm really enjoying the peace and quiet offered by sleeping children, almost too much, time to go catch some z's myself now. Hoping for more gaming time tomorrow! :-)

Childrens choir

We are SO going to pep-talk our oldest son to join a choir, imagine sitting in the audience for something like this?! :-) I'd be so proud. Though honestly I'd be in tears for absolutely ANY song performed by my babies... :-)

Original song: http://youtu.be/bGOiIfih8Ls by Crystal Castles.

More from this fantastic London superstar choir, The Capital Children's Choir:

"Who Is It" by Björk - http://youtu.be/XUqexzxj8Vk"Shake It Out" by Florence + The Machine - http://youtu.be/Gj-ntawOBw4 (MY GOD the voice of that first young soloist!)
"So Long You Pretty Thing" by Spiritualized - http://youtu.be/NLyHY00D_W4"Chinese" by Lily Allen - http://youtu.be/GZjcfZ2pWtM

The choir's website: http://www.capitalchoir.com/

Who's who?

Mix & Matched...

Found these marvellous fridge magnets on Etsy (also discovered Etsy, something which will become a rather expensive relationship I fear...). :-)

They are created by Mary Jenkins in Salt Lake City, USA. Her store is called CosplayScramble Mix & Match Magnets and she creates these fantastic magnets with mix/matchable heads/bodies.

Dr Princess Leia Who...

Hours of fun! :-D

A Character I Used to Know

Brilliant video from "Not Literally".

Skylanders

"Ninjini"

Oldest son (5½ years) have started playing Skylanders, with passion. He is already better than I am although I have a slight advantage of being able to read...

He and his brother (soon 4 years) have a fantastic kind of cooperation around the game, where the older orders/asks (we try to make him ask politely) the eager younger to place relevant Skylander character on the "portal" (in order to open gates and fight certain mobs etc).

It's interesting to hear, and watch. We've been coaching younger brother to play a little, but he tends to choose to watch his brother for the time being. Younger prefers to play games on the iPad.

I like the fact that Skylanders combines figurines with gaming, much like old school "dungeons and dragons" etc. Figurines look good and are quite sturdy even though a few bits have fallen off due to vigorous playing by younger brother... (some glue and they seem to be fit for fight again).

Gameplay is rather "nice", sure enough you figth/kill opponents, but it's not quite as obvious and graphic as it could be. You select your figurine, place it on the "portal" and the character you chose is magically entering the game. We have the Wii version and the controller gives some feedback on entry (and certain other actions).

I actually like the figurines so much I bought my own last night - "Ninjini" featured on the photo above. :-D

Oculus Rift

I really would like to have one of these. Really.

Please make them commercially available soon, pretty please. Pretty please with a cherry on top. 8-)

Oculus Rift site.
Oculus Rift on Wikipedia.

FUNNIEST video of a group of Norwegian journalists testing "a pair of" Oculus Rift... (DBtv, in Norwegian). :-)

Well hello again

Time for some laser-swording exploration of the now rather old expansion of Star Wars the Old Republic.
It's been a while, so it'll be like starting over. But hey, that's quite OK now that the game is "free to play". :-)