I'm writing this in a bar in the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport while waiting for the last leg of my business trip to London. It is 10:30 pm and I started the trip this morning at 5:05 when I hopped on the taxi waiting at my doorstep. I'll be home half past midnight and it's Friday!
These one day trips to London from Oulu are killers. I'm glad I don't have to do it too often. But overall I like to go on business trips every now and then even though you usually don't see much anything but the airport, hotel, couple of offices and a peak at the city through the taxi's window. It would be difficult to take a job that doesn't include international travelling at all.
Gotta go now, the flight to Oulu is departing...
Friday, October 5, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Virtual fishing
I was googling around for fly fishing stuff and stumbled upon a fly fishing game. Check this out: http://www.flysim.com/flysim/flysim_download.html.
I tried the game for a couple of times and it was kind of funny. You really can't learn much of fly fishing from it, but you can easily waste a couple of hours trying to make a decent cast. It was very challenging with the IBM laptops integrated "nipple" mouse and a bit easier with a normal mouse (I imagine it's totally impossible with the touch pad type of mouse most laptops have).
And it is somewhat thrilling when a fish actually does catch :)
But at least I can't get kicks out of it for more than couple of times.
There is also a fishing game for mobile phones coming from Nokia later this year called Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep. I had a chance to try it out at the Nokia launch event in London late August (http://www.nokia.com/press/goplay). It was an interesting experience and I'm sure I'll be playing that and it will be my favorite waste of time when mobile for some time. There's a nice review of the game here.
If I come across any other interesting fishing games I'll post about those in this blog.
I tried the game for a couple of times and it was kind of funny. You really can't learn much of fly fishing from it, but you can easily waste a couple of hours trying to make a decent cast. It was very challenging with the IBM laptops integrated "nipple" mouse and a bit easier with a normal mouse (I imagine it's totally impossible with the touch pad type of mouse most laptops have).
And it is somewhat thrilling when a fish actually does catch :)
But at least I can't get kicks out of it for more than couple of times.
There is also a fishing game for mobile phones coming from Nokia later this year called Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep. I had a chance to try it out at the Nokia launch event in London late August (http://www.nokia.com/press/goplay). It was an interesting experience and I'm sure I'll be playing that and it will be my favorite waste of time when mobile for some time. There's a nice review of the game here.
If I come across any other interesting fishing games I'll post about those in this blog.
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