Mesmerized

[liralen]

Jet loves, loves, loves the sand game. He'll contemplate a move, and make it and watch the sand accumulate and then make other walls and just watch it flow and flow. It was funny seeing a five-year-old eating his breakfast before my cold, dead laptop, waiting for me to wake up so that I could log in to let him use the game. It's amazing to see how patient he is about it, too. Like watching a Zen gardener with a rake, contemplate his garden before setting anything to it.

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[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of Jet today and as a result, decided to rent Hero. Hero was out in the video store, and so I rented House of Flying Daggers, which I haven't watched yet. How that little boy causes me to do such things, I'll never know. We need to watch his power carefully :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Vewy, vewy carefully. :-)

Although, having been given a name that would make even a Chinese God blush, by my parents, may well be enough.

[niherlas.livejournal.com]

Sand game? Link?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/ (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/)

If you want to download it and play it locally there's a jar file (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/sand7.jar). You probably have java already working somehow. So download the jar file and save it as "sand7.jar" somewhere and then do "java -jar sand7.jar sand7"

It really books on a fast machine. My laptop is slow enough that Jet can take his time with it. :-)

[niherlas.livejournal.com]

Ah. Tracked down the original to:

http://ishi.blog2.fc2.com/blog-entry-158.html

Where the author has several other java games. Cool!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ooo... very cool.

Is there source code? I'm not sure I can figure it out from the site itself...