This package arrived at my house the other day:
If you are not that familiar with South Park then you may not remember the “Weight Gain 3000″ episode where Cartman puts on weight after binge-ing on body-builder weight gain supplement.
Well, I’ve decided that that is going to be me - can you guess what is in the enormous containers in the cardboard box?
I’ve had this article on standby for a little while now. Several weeks ago, quite by chance I picked up a book in a bookshop about Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, and ended up buying it. Since then I have made several models which now litter my living room table.
Here is a rather out of focus picture of one of my earlier creations.
I hope it isn’t too hard to tell, but it is a model of Yoda from Star Wars. He is made from a single sheet of paper, coloured green on one side and white on the other. I found the folding instructions on the internet.
Magic the Gathering has got to be hot on the heels of Star Trek for the honour of being “Geekiest Thing in the World.” Or, indeed “…in the Galaxy” for Star Trek fans.
But I have been spending a little time playing the online version of the game, so I guess it deserves a mention here. It gives me a good incentive to write some more blog posts so that this one can get buried beneath them in the archives.
First, though, just so you have an idea of what I’m talking about, here’s a picture:
That’s the online version of the game. Magic the Gathering, or MTG for short, started life as a real-life trading card based game. Players play with pre-constructed decks of cards from their collections, with cards representing magic spells in a fantasy world. The aim is to reduce your opponent’s life-total from a start value of 20 points down to 0 by casting spells and attacking with creature cards.
