Strange games
24/09/2003 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie is in the mood for squiggling tonight. Got two mid semester exams out of the way and a shameful result of 5/5 in a stupid project where we had to use Microsoft Fuckpage. Will never be able to show my face again in respectable geek society.
Tomorrow Izzie is being a culture vulture. Got a voucher from a radio station promotion for a ballet that is on from 19 September to 3 October. I did have to present the voucher and exchange it for a ticket and of course it is not valid for Fridays or Saturdays. The evil scheme seems to be that folks will bring along their significant other and therefore pay full price for the second ticket. Not mean nasty and cheap Izzie. Not only am I going alone but as such got the choice of some of the best seats as there is always the odd single seat left here and there. And Izzie of course got one of them.
Asked the box office people out of curiosity what it would have cost to buy the same ticket. A mere 60 silver sickles they said! Most amused I was. That very day I had the princely sum of five to last about a week. But of course the tickets are not convertable and it will be strange and amusing to go to a ballet again for the first time in about twenty years.
Hard to believe that Izzie even did ballet classes many moons ago. Of course I was utterly useless. Images of a hippo in a pink tutu come to mind.
Tomorrow I will be such a culture vulture. It is so true that the longer an exhibition is on, the less likely one is to see it. At the art gallery is a special exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art from England. It has been around at least two months and finishes on Saturday. So it's tomorrow or not at all. While I like the look of this art style in general, I do find the women look rather ugly and over the top. Still cannot see why it caused such a fuss in the first place.
Professor Binns is as boring as ever. Can you imagine teaching a subject called "Strategic Games" without ever getting the students to play them even once! What an absolute waste of such a fascinating subject. Here is a sample for you nice folks to try.
I once went to a seminar kind of thing in Kuala Lumpur where they used all sorts of interesting ways to teach stuff and most of it consisted of games of various varieties. And years later I can still rememember them almost as if it was yesterday.
In my flobberworm days I used to absolutely adore Monopoly. It was one of the few games that was interesting when it was not your turn to play. Izzie used to know the prices and rents for everything and would often have handed over the correct rent even before the owners noticed I'd visited their particular patch of real estate. Needless to say, Izzie's payments were not so forthcoming when there were nasty red hotels on the sites. I would pass the dice to the next player. They were so used to decent, honest, pay on time Izzie that by the time they noticed I'd paid a visit, the next player would have already cast the dice and it was too late to collect the rent. Mwahahaha! Same as in real life. Izzie gets devious to stay alive rather than to get ahead.
Tomorrow Izzie is being a culture vulture. Got a voucher from a radio station promotion for a ballet that is on from 19 September to 3 October. I did have to present the voucher and exchange it for a ticket and of course it is not valid for Fridays or Saturdays. The evil scheme seems to be that folks will bring along their significant other and therefore pay full price for the second ticket. Not mean nasty and cheap Izzie. Not only am I going alone but as such got the choice of some of the best seats as there is always the odd single seat left here and there. And Izzie of course got one of them.
Asked the box office people out of curiosity what it would have cost to buy the same ticket. A mere 60 silver sickles they said! Most amused I was. That very day I had the princely sum of five to last about a week. But of course the tickets are not convertable and it will be strange and amusing to go to a ballet again for the first time in about twenty years.
Hard to believe that Izzie even did ballet classes many moons ago. Of course I was utterly useless. Images of a hippo in a pink tutu come to mind.
Tomorrow I will be such a culture vulture. It is so true that the longer an exhibition is on, the less likely one is to see it. At the art gallery is a special exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite art from England. It has been around at least two months and finishes on Saturday. So it's tomorrow or not at all. While I like the look of this art style in general, I do find the women look rather ugly and over the top. Still cannot see why it caused such a fuss in the first place.
Professor Binns is as boring as ever. Can you imagine teaching a subject called "Strategic Games" without ever getting the students to play them even once! What an absolute waste of such a fascinating subject. Here is a sample for you nice folks to try.
I once went to a seminar kind of thing in Kuala Lumpur where they used all sorts of interesting ways to teach stuff and most of it consisted of games of various varieties. And years later I can still rememember them almost as if it was yesterday.
In my flobberworm days I used to absolutely adore Monopoly. It was one of the few games that was interesting when it was not your turn to play. Izzie used to know the prices and rents for everything and would often have handed over the correct rent even before the owners noticed I'd visited their particular patch of real estate. Needless to say, Izzie's payments were not so forthcoming when there were nasty red hotels on the sites. I would pass the dice to the next player. They were so used to decent, honest, pay on time Izzie that by the time they noticed I'd paid a visit, the next player would have already cast the dice and it was too late to collect the rent. Mwahahaha! Same as in real life. Izzie gets devious to stay alive rather than to get ahead.
