Game, Lighthouse, Star Wars

There are two projects for this week. The first is to finish "Special Agent", which is unique in the way that I've got fed up of it before the year I started it has even passed - my normal development cycle is to start something at the beginning of summer and finish it at about Easter. However, the game only needs a couple of things done to it now before it's released. If I had to put a date on it I'd say Saturday, December 2nd.

The other main focus of the week is far more unusual - building a gingerbread lighthouse round at Whitney's friend James'. He's made some very impressive gingerbread structures before, the most notable being a scale model of Notre Dame cathedral. Here's his photo site so you can be amazed yourself. This year it's an island with a cottage and lighthouse, which is just getting to the stage where we're gluing it together with icing. Yesterday I was soldering together the wires for the motor and bulbs which James held them together, with remarkable trust for someone whose previous experience with a soldering iron involves having burnt a classmate right across the palm of the hand while in electronic construction class.

There's something that I discovered on the Internet a while ago but never thought to point out until now, and gr33bo said I should put it up here after I rediscovered it last night. After remembering about it last night I desperately searched on Google to find it, and eventually came up with the embarrassingly obvious location of dooku.net.

I think the site I found it on a few months ago gave it as an example of how sound can affect the perception of something visual, but I'm not entirely certain of the original purpose of the site, to be honest. It's a video clip from one of the later Star Wars films, set to various musics - click on the rectangle at the bottom to change the soundtrack. Some of them are quite hilarious.