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Archive for January 2010
Psychonauts
Friday 22 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
Of course, the reason I was in the Steam online store in the first place was a game called Psychonauts.
Zero Punctuation had this to say about it.
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Alien vs Predator
Friday 22 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
Ah yes, I remember it well. When I was a teenager, my little sister used to get me to give her a lift to her boyfriend’s house. His family were stupidly rich, and he had a cutting-edge gaming PC in his bedroom. They used to let me play AvP while they were… hmm, actually, I wonder WTF they were doing while I was upstairs?? 
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Bigger bunch
Wednesday 20 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
The mists have cleared. It seems what they’ve done is take the two Tuesday night Rock & Roll classes and just stuffed them into one. So instead of an intermediate and an advanced class each with about 7 people, we now have one single class with a reasonable number of people in it. (Although I notice that most of the people who were in my class just plain didn’t show up at all…)
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Love strife
Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
In a sad attempt to get a girl, I am currently signed up to just about every Internet dating website known to mankind. And have been for almost a decade now.
Unfortunately, dating websites have several problems.
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Second dance
Monday 18 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
And so, finally, I get to do some more dancing this year, with the Friday night Ballroom & Latin class. Unfortunately, all we really did was practice the Jive, which I still don’t like. I still really don’t get what the steps are supposed to be, and jiggling around on tip-toes in really very uncomfortable.
The next move somewhat gave the game away: change of hands behind the back? Haven’t I heard this somewhere before? On inspection, it appears that all three figures we have so far learned are actually identical to the same three figures in the Rock & Roll, but with each slow step replaced by three fast steps. The back-step remains unaltered.
This might well be the magic key to unlocking this dance. If the whole damned lot really is just the same thing with a slightly different step rhythm, then hypothetically I already know it all. But that would seem far too simple; I’m sure they’ll be more to it than that.
It seems Steven is coming with Lois to the Friday night classes now. And, in a surprise turn of events, it seems that the two of them are going to start a Rock & Roll class. (It’ll be interesting to see how much the Jive conflicts with that!) If only I got to be in their class. Of course, they’ll be beginners, and I’m now intermediate. Oh, and apparently the time of my R&R class is moving as a result…
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First dance lesson of 2010
Wednesday 06 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
Last night I had my first Rock & Roll class of the year. It seems only three other people bothered to turn up for this one. The classes are always fairly small, but this is just silly. I can only imagine it was something to do with the 8mm of snow outside.
In addition, the Ballroom & Latin class wasn’t running, so we got to use the downstairs dance hall, which I think is fractionally bigger. Anyway, Linda seemed to be at somewhat of a loss for what to do with just 4 dancers plus herself. In the end, we ended up learning Tiger Feet. 
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New Year’s Eve Dance
Monday 04 Jan 2010 by Orphi the AweKid.
The last dance of 2009 (and of course the first dance of 2010) was the New Year’s Eve Dance!
Actually, this one wasn’t as good as the Christmas Dance. There weren’t nearly as many people there, and by 8:30 I still hadn’t seen a single person set foot on the dance floor. The evening had a greater emphasis on party games (some of them dance-related) and less on actually dancing, which is the thing I enjoy. Still, it wasn’t a bad evening by any stretch of the imagination.
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