Oolite Bulletins

Cody wrote:

She was a great writer, and the only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to have written sci-fi (I think) - Canopus in Argos: Archives was strangely excellent.

My wife told me just a few minutes ago. We're losing a lot of great SF writers this year!

I played Paradroid, Uridium and AlleyKat* to completion and then when I got my Amiga I played Pinball Dreams a lot, really, really, a lot.

(Andrew Braybrook was my programming hero - what he managed to get the C64 to do was quite astonishing)

OK, I know we've got a lot of 8-bit old timers on the boards.

This KS has already reached its funding level - but I wouldn't want anybody to miss out!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob ... e-pioneers

This Kickstarter got funded - did anybody else back it?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/126 ... s-art-book

I'm hoping that, eventually, that the in-system trip, along the space lane is so full of life and exciting (and necessary?) that it becomes an integral part of the game. I used to use TAF and deliberately stay in the lanes because I've never been able to justify the Jump Drive in a game which is no ...

Yeah we've noticed this a lot with our students recently downloading stuff from Sourceforge...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08 ... installer/

We always suspected that Earth-sized and composition type planets would be common place - given how "normal" our sun is - there will even be lots of Earth sized planets in those suns Goldilocks zones, the real trick for a planet with a molten iron core (good for generating useful magnetic ...

Amazes me that this is a one man show (the only other one I know that is this awesome as a one man show (for different reasons) is Artemis)

Listened to the Conclave via USB on my car stereo this morning (which confused my kids on their drive to school). I kept hearing this passionate but otherwise numpty Northern bloke and then I realised it was me... I've started writing Elite Fic again - there's a couple of Drabbles on the Frontier Fo...

Just listened to the 'Conclave' - thanks for the plugs there Daddyhoggy and Gimi! And Gimi you're now infamous throughout the Elite-i-verse... Cheers, Drew. You're welcome - it's well deserved. I've downloaded it onto a USB stick - will listen to it in the car on the way to work tomorrow. It's a bi...

Yup.

http://uk.movember.com/mospace/2419872

Also part of Team Mobra Mk III

I think perhaps they just decided that we weren't coming back - and when we did - they ran away and hid - until we pinned somebody down in reception...

They closed the bar unexpectedly early - nobody was drunk enough to be compromised - however I will upload the few pictures I did take, later.

OK, I know I'm going to catch up with A_C and Gimi tomorrow - who else?

Planning to arrive at check-in time (2pm).

Drop a note below this one if you fancy catching up for a beer (or tell me where's the best place for a beer before I arrive and I'll head that way!)