![]() ![]() Surprisingly few survived to be picked up on Amazon or eBay for the type of money I'm willing to pay for them. This is something I'd like to research more on the history of, but buying a lot of these old books is quite expensive. ![]() I have a hint book for several Infocom games, as well as two more for Space Quest games that were not officially promoted by the developers. I just got my hands on the Infocom clue book for "Hitchhiker's Guide" (1984) and I was disappointed by just how utilitarian it was.Īnother sign that clue books were big business: there were 3rd party ones. The Space Quest IV hint book, for example, not only had the clues but also a bit of history of the game, pre-production art, and an interview with the developers. I do not know what hint books for cRPGs looked like, but I know that by the early 1990s, adventure game hint books (especially Sierra ones), were frequently quite nice. I am fairly sure that I recall reading Corey say that hint books outsold the games as well. I do not have the link immediately to hand, but your colleague over at the Digital Antiquarian had a post where they pointed out that if Infocom cluebooks were priced higher than paperbacks ($10 in the 1980s?) and would have made the New York Times bestseller lists had such things been allowed. To echo what the others have said, cluebooks were a big business. I'm more interested in the quality of the story than the way it's presented, and while watching the mages cast lightning bolts at Darkmoon until it vanished was cute, it made about as much sense as Khelben's ignorance to the danger posed by Dran Draggore. I mean, I suppose I prefer a cinematic to plain text, but only barely. There were times that the game was difficult, but it did not feature an "insane level of difficulty." And I guess I'm just jaded from modern games, but most reviewers seem to be far more in love with animated introductions and conclusions than I am. ![]() In contrast, I can find nothing to agree with in GameSpy's brief description of the game in a 2004 history of RPGs. He also notes the increase in encounters with role-playing options. ![]() My particular approach to playing and mapping doesn't really favor those changes, but I can see why some players would prefer them. He makes a good point on the relative ease of navigation in the sequel, with fewer teleporters and redundant stairways and more hints about secret door locations. Corey "Dingo" Brock offered a retrospective in 2011 on Hardcore Gaming 101. Overall, it's clear that like me she prefers games that eschew manual dexterity for more cerebral combat tactics.ĭarkmoon is so well known, of course, that there are plenty of modern takes on the game, too. She also complains about something that I didn't think to complain about but was a problem nonetheless: the need to use the mouse in combat and the keypad to move forces you into an awkward position in which your left hand is on the right side of the keyboard, meaning that your arm is either at a weird angle or you're off-center from the computer monitor. But she agrees with me on the interface issues, quoting a friend in saying, "It's only real-time for the monsters." She bemoans the freezing that accompanies spellcasting and swapping equipment. That highlights how little progress I'm making.) It's not one of her better reviews, full of spoilers and going into unnecessary meticulous detail about a handful of enemies. (I note with some amusement that the same issue has a review of Bloodwych, which I played nearly 6 years and over 200 games ago. Scorpia reviewed Darkmoon in the April 1992 Computer Gaming World. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And despite her heart’s tendency to double-time it whenever he turned those melting chocolate eyes of his in her direction, she felt safer around him than she did around anyone.Įven the hurtful stuff that lived inside her.Īnd what had she done with this paragon of male perfection, you ask? Well, she’d slept with him. The man her mind landed on when she was looking for a little peace. He was also steady and considerate and capable. You see, he was so much more than his movie star face and Olympian’s body. It was cliché, but she truly did believe that it was what was on the inside that counted. Tamburro, her medieval history professor who had a severely disfiguring form of Muenke syndrome, was the nicest, gentlest, most generous person she’d ever met. The most beautiful woman she’d ever known, her mother, was as vain and as selfish and as mean as they came. In two words, holy crap! And in three words? Homina, homina, homina. Like Michelangelo’s David, he was a study in sturdy bones, tough sinew, and meticulously defined muscle. They reminded Mia of that wolf in the old cartoons when his tongue unfurled across the table at the same time his eyes bulged from his head. When that happened, their double takes turned into jaw drops. You know, when she spent twenty minutes on her makeup and twice that long on her hair.īut Romeo? He had a face like a two-week paid vacation, a profile so beautiful that every woman from seven to seventy did a double take whenever he walked by.Īnd that’s before they let their eyes travel down his body. She was capable of being seen in public without causing people to turn away in horror. Not that she thought she should go around with a paper bag over her head or anything. When it came to looks? To borrow one of her grandmother’s favorite phrases… my stars and garters! In the case of Spiro “Romeo” Delgado and Mia Ennis, Romeo was the stars and Mia was the garters. People were people, with arms and legs and bodies and faces, and that’s where their similarities ended. So, sure, on paper they made a pretty good match. And they’d both traveled the world-him on harrowing military missions and her on various hunts for sunken history. They’d both had less-than-ideal childhoods. They both liked novels filled with angsty vampires, mischievous ghosts, and humorless werewolves. Oh, she and Romeo might be well-matched in some areas. Like choking down Uncle John’s tuna casserole compared to dining on one of Bran’s homemade calzones. Like finding a penny on the beach compared to hauling up treasures of the deep. Spiro “Romeo” Delgado was so far out of her league it was like digging in the dirt with a stick as a kid compared to using advanced technologies to carbon date ancient bones. It was the good-way-to-get-her-pride-stomped-on-like-a-cigarette-butt kind of habit. Not the getting-eight-hours-of-sleep or including-a-retinol-into-her-skincare-routine kind of habit. That was the first thought that ran through Mia’s head when she was jolted awake by the feel of a hot, hard body stretched out beside her. Today we are celebrating the release of SHOT ACROSS THE BOW by Julie Ann Walker. ![]() ![]() Tom Atwell has been writing the Maine Gardener column since 2004.Many gardeners have a particular horticultural interest, such as orchids, roses or rhododendrons. So in addition to whatever items your friend or family member buys with her certificate, she’ll receive sound knowledge and advice – and that is often the best gift of all. The center’s staff can provide advice on which plants grow best in the area and which tools work best. If none of these ideas strikes your fancy, buy a gift certificate to a garden center near the recipient’s home. Or give your favorite gardener a stirrup hoe, $51 at Johnny’s and similar to the hula hoe we bought several years ago and that has proved invaluable. One, a narrow collinear hoe, with a 3 ¾-inch blade, looks like it would work effectively around the plants Johnny’s sells other collinear hoes with blades up to 7 inches. But while perusing the website for Johnny’s Selected Seeds recently, I saw several hoes that would work as well as ours. My wife, Nancy, and I inherited two terrific garden hoes from her grandparents, and for years I’ve wondered how people work with the clunky hoes I see at hardware stores. A smaller version for children costs $115. Add a greenhouse cover and micro-mesh insect cover, and the total comes to $339. Anyhow, if you know a similarly absentminded gardener, I suggest the pruner.īack to raised beds for patios and decks: For a gift on the ornamental side, check out the VegTrug, available on several websites including Amazon and for $279, and solidly made of wood. But somehow I suspect that since I spent so little on them, I won’t lose these. Even though the red-coated grip came off my first one, it still does the job, so I bought four more, in case I lose them and/or Pinetree stops selling them. Pinetree sells a $6.95 hand pruner that cuts very well. After I lost my third $50 Felco hand pruner, I vowed never again. ![]() To explain this, a confession: I often lose things in the garden. While you are on Pinetree’s website, check out my favorite low-price stocking stuffer. It’s more than 6 feet tall and 4 feet by 6 on the ground, with a roll-up door and two tiers of shelving. If you’d like to give a more generous gift, consider Pinetree’s walk-in greenhouse for $140. At $40, it costs much less than most other purchased cold frames. It’s 47 by 24 inches, so could be used on patios and balconies. One is a garden cold frame with a raised bed, tubular steel frame and roll-up zippered panels for easy access. Pinetree Garden Seeds ( ), a catalog company in New Gloucester, has several season-extending products at reasonable prices. ![]() Gifts that’ll be useful once gardening resumes in the spring will be appreciated, too. Putting the terrarium together is like designing and planting a small garden, and it’ll keep pining-for-spring gardeners entertained. They come with tropical plants, potting soil, pebbles and sand, along with the glass and metal house. They vary a lot, from simple blown-glass balls with a hole for watering plants that start at about $25, to jars with removable covers and even one, for $169 from White Flower Farm in Morris, Connecticut, that looks like a miniature Victorian pavilion. I’ve noticed a resurgence of kits for terrariums this year, both at garden centers and in gardening catalogs. But you always could get your gardening friend a terrarium. OK, admittedly orchids, at least the easy sort, aren’t too big of a project. That way, even if the recipient fails to get the orchid to rebloom, the plants are attractive for longer. Orchids are an obvious choice – especially if you buy them with buds instead of, or in addition to, full blossoms. You can always give a gardener a houseplant as a gift, but it’s hard to know which one. And for $40, it has a habitat hotel that provides shelter for butterflies, native bees and beneficial, pest-eating insects such as ladybugs and lacewings. The company offers similar shelters for butterflies and birds at the same price. The Gardener’s Supply Company sells a good-looking woven bamboo bee house for $20. Others on your list may prefer a ready-made, spiffier-looking bee house. 7153 ( /publications/7153e) on native bees, which includes instructions for building the houses. ![]() ![]() If the recipient is a do-it-yourself sort, wrap up material – basically 2-by-6-inch lumber and 1-by-3-inch strapping – to build some bee houses and print out the University of Maine Cooperative Extension bulletin No. Consider giving habitat for those vital insects. The need to provide habitat for pollinators such as native bees and butterflies has become more important as the honeybee population seriously declines. Simpler single-species bee and butterfly homes are also available. A fancy “hotel” for bees, insects and butterflies may charm the gardener on your gift list who is keen to provide a habitat for crucial creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with these security recorders, Lorex introduced a brand-new line of 1080p MPX and IP security cameras. These systems not only offered the highest level of detail and clarity available at the time, they were also extremely user-friendly with easy remote connectivity. Lorex introduced their line of full 1080p security DVRs and NVRs in 2015. A few years later, Lorex was the first to market a security DVR with a 960H recording resolution. It had a 640×480 recording resolution and was compatible on PC, Apple and Android devices. This was a great piece of security technology for the time. In the early part of the decade, Lorex introduced their EDGE+ Surveillance DVR. And with each step, Lorex has been led the way. The company also has plans to further integrate new thermal technology into their product line.Įven within this decade, the evolution of the security camera system category has been substantial. More recently, Lorex was the first to market Color Night Vision, 4K resolution security cameras and the new RapidRecap feature that compiles up to 12 hours of footage into a minute-long video. Some of these firsts include their vastly popular 17- to 22-inch integrated monitors with built-in recording, Skype remote viewing, cloud recording and HD baby monitors with two-way communication. In fact, they have been the first to market many products over the years. Throughout the last two-and-a-half decades, Lorex has expanded its product offerings and kept up with the latest technology. Lorex Technology, rebranded as Lorex by FLIR, is now at the forefront of the consumer and small business security camera system industry. At the time, many people wondered what a military and commercial security camera company wanted to do with a small business security company, but president Andy Teich stated that the acquisition wasn’t about where they were but where they were headed. In 2003, it expanded into the commercial and professional security marketplace when it launched a subsidiary called Digimerge.įLIR Systems, Inc., a high-end thermal camera manufacturer, acquired Lorex for $59 million in 2012. The company was purchased by Strategic Vista International in 1996. Lorex was founded by Bernard Klein in 1991 and became a publicly traded company in 1993. They promote awareness and connectivity to keep your family, property and business safe. The company offers DIY security camera systems for consumers and small businesses. ![]() Lorex started in Ontario, Canada and soon expanded across North and South America and the U.K. To see just how far we’ve come, take a closer look at how Lorex Technology grew to become a leader in the video surveillance and home security industry. Security and surveillance companies have jumped at this opportunity to create smarter and more innovative products that help keep the ones you love safe. ![]() As smart homes become more and more prominent, however, people want more advanced ways to keep their home secure. You expect your home to come with basic security features such as locks on the windows, a peephole on the front door and outdoor lighting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This year’s festival will also include the Fringe ArtSpace in downtown Orlando on historic Church Street in addition to a number of BYOV’s, or “Bring Your Own Venues, ” like The Abbey, Renaissance Theatre Company, Hamburger Mary’s, and The Starlite Room at Savoy in Ivanhoe Village. Orlando Fringe will take over all of the cultural entities at Loch Haven Park, save the Science Center, including the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando Repertory Theatre, and the Orlando Museum of Art. ![]() I hope everyone sees lots of shows, meets lots of new people, reconnects with lots of old friends and are moved by something they experience.” – ALAUNA FRISKICS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ORLANDO FRINGE I am proud to be a part of the oldest and largest Fringe in the U.S. We began Downtown in empty storefronts and on Church Street, and here we are again – full circle – back on Church Street decades later with the recently celebrated opening of our year-round venue Fringe ArtSpace, expanding our programming from Loch Haven Park with more shows, more activities and more art than ever before. As we enter into our 32 nd year, we reflect on how far we’ve come. “This year’s theme, Festival Beautiful, is in honor of our beautiful City of Orlando. 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