The Best Time I Had All Day (any number can play)

[admin]

Listening to "If You Drink You Die" (and if you don't drink you die, anyway) by Barton Sweeney on River Red.

[admin]

Reading the bit in Girl Genius #9 by Phil & Kaja Foglio where Agatha and Gil finally begin to spark together, and decide the only way to save Tarvek is to kill him.

[Third Foundationer]

Getting my high school seniors very, very interested in Philp K. Dick just by teaching them his biography. They were VERY primed to read "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."

--3rdF

[admin]

In Tomb Raider: Underworld, after turning three gears in a Mexican temple, the race on a motorcycle through dangerous jungle trails, jumping over pits and running over panthers that attack, to get to the pasage that is open for a very limited time.

[admin]

Reading the short chapter in War and Peace where Andrei faces combat for the first time. The heady mixture of exhilaration and fear has never, in my reading, been captured so well.

[admin]

Finishing Portal Two (two-player version) with my son Hal (a computer science grad student). One of the greatest games ever! Are there any other cooperative two-player games as good?

[admin]

Playing the entire game of Portal One non-stop over five hours. It's a one player game, but my son and I took turns, and afterwards I was so exhausted I had to treat myself to a fancy dinner with an expensive wine, just to recover.

[slaven41]

Been playing a lot of Civ IV lately. Was enjoying it until I suddenly encountered arguably mankind's worst nightmare: Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire, with tanks.

[admin]

Watching the first episode of the second season of Rome.

[admin]

Helping a student prove Euler's Formula at the board.

[slaven41]

Is that the one about vertices, edges, and faces?

[admin]

No, tho F-E+V=2 is a good formula. This is e to the i theta = cos theta plus i sin theta.

[admin]

Our monthly science fiction dinner at the local Indian restaurant. If you're ever in Johnson City, Tennessee, join us.

[admin]

Listening to the song "Democracy" ("Democracy is coming...to the USA") by Leonard Cohen on the album "Live in London".

[admin]

Eating Masaman Curry at the local Tomi Thai.