The new iPhone is 2 weeks old tomorrow. I’ve been trying to get one since it was launched. Seeing as how I live and work right beside an apple store you would think I would have one by now.

I don’t.

Which is a problem. Bits on my current phone keep breaking. Just yesterday I had to glue my earphones back together.

I could have got one last week when the lines weren’t too long. I elected to spend time with my brother instead. Now the lines are longer at 8:30am than they were at any time last week.

I think I’m just going to have queue up at around 8 Saturday morning and get one. That is if they haven’t sold out of them in the state like I believe they have in others.

SD:CCI starts tomorrow and I have to say I’m excited. It’s not like I’m going or anything but between Comic Book Resources, Standard Attrition and the various comic creators I follow on Twitter I think I’ll be well informed.

I put the metal to the pedal

I’ve been playing a lot of world of Warcraft recently which is why there has been a lack of posts or any other activity.

My brother was here for a week. That was loads of fun.

I’ll have some pictures up later. We played a lot of games, computer games, board games, war games you name it.

Also, there be tweets.

Time for a gaming post. Don’t get those much even though the name of the blog is Gamerism. Last night I went to a friends house to play some Rock Band, Arkham Horror and some more Rock Band.

Arkham Horror

Arkham horror is a board game based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. It is set in H.P. Lovecrafts New England town of Arkham. The player takes the role of an investigator who try to stop a massive alien being from invading our place of existence and destroying life as we know it. It’s an interesting game in that even though everybody is on the same team, there is some competition except between the investigators for loot, special abilities and weapons. It’s also a long game, it takes a little while to set up. The game last night took about 4 hours play, partly because there was a bit of a learning curve for the new players. But once we got into it The turns just flew by and it wasn’t long before we had all the gates closed. It was a fun game and I look forward to playing it again in the future.

Rock Band

The game of Arkham Horror was bracketed with Rock Band. Rock Band is amazing. When playing with other people you genuinely feel like your in a band. One of the things that really surprised me was the easiness of the singing. Everybody had a go willingly. A lot more and a lot better has been written about it. All I’ll say is that after finishing up last night at 3 in the morning, I decided to call in to a local 24 hour Walmart and pick up my own copy. I played until 6 in the morning and all day to day. Lots of fun.

I found this really nice design on the internets.

I like it but I think I may need to make it brighter or something.

I recently went a little mad. It was late at night and I had heard about a deal amazon were doing so I decided to get these.

A box set of all the Star Trek Movies and the 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A few hours later I was sort of regretting the purchase but after watching a good few of the movies and most of the first series I have to say I’m very happy. It was a little weird at first. It was of course filmed in the 80’s and it shows. All the women have 80’s hair, Wil Wheaton is very young, the CGI is a little shaky and since it was taken off the TV there is a fierce amount of interlacing which doesn’t work well with the Mac DVD player (something I should check to see is fixed in Leopard).

Over all though it’s very enjoyable. I’ve seen some of the episodes before and they’re just as good as I remember. Still if the 1st season is the weakest as is reported on Amazon then I’m looking forward to the rest of them.

I really need to update the design of this place. I was thinking of doing something steampunky. If there is any body still reading this and they have suggestions, post them to the comments.

I’ve been using Twitter recently to follow a couple of the internet people who’s blogs I read and it’s pretty good. I’ve been posting stuff to it too. You can follow along at http://twitter.com/kertap. It would be nice if you did as then it wouldn’t feel like I’m shouting at the wind.