Labda Hata Mimi

My Roommate has arrived. Against all speculation he is an undergraduate of sorts. He is a 22 year old attending a Economics and Finance Uni in Vienna. He is touring with a group of 30 from another Uni in Vienna.

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The CIA world fact book entry is always a reliable way to patch up fuzzy mental geography. Kind of funny that we have it, though we certainly need it, with all of those other countries so far outside our native sphere of vision. Let see, largely german, against my intuition that they had a local language. Borders Slovakia and the rest of the eastern bloc.

My main previous encounter with the country of Austria is “Codemonkey UK’s Blog”:http://codemonkey-uk.hulver.com/scoop/ who works at Rockstar Vienna, heading up “the programmers”:http://www.rockstarvienna.com/ who made one of the GTA3 sequels. Sometimes it is neat to peak into another country a “4708 mi”:http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist?place1=Oxford%2C+OH+&place2=Vienna+Austria away and see how life is. He is also another Thad in a world sadly lacking in them. I must admit that he has a cooler last name. Thadeus Frogley.

I just also found his win32 implentation of a game concept, “Entropy”:http://es-entropy.sf.net/, particularly entertaining. Basically you try to subvert or create symmetrical order on a 49 square checkerboard. The picker can only place pieces, the other entity can only slide them. You pick a role, entropy or chaos at the beginning and you play two rounds, one as picker and one as slider. There is AI and Play by email. I’d play if anyone happened to be interested. Good strategy.