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Monthly Archive for March, 2008
I chickened out.
It’s three days to Fade In and I dang-diddly chickened out.
I admit it. I’m not ready to wrangle Cheap Cyborg. Shit, I’m not even sure I can write a 100 pages of anything in a month, let alone an ambitious, if messy and unfocused science fiction epic…
Especially a messy and unfocused science fiction epic.
And just as everything was going so well.
So Battlestar Galactica is set to return for its fourth and final season, and on the one hand I’m exhilarated, especially now that Lost is on break. But on the other season 3 was so poorly executed I almost stopped watching. In fact, I probably would have, if it wasn’t made clear that season 4 would be the last season.
I needed these last 10 days of vacation like Superman needs the sun. You know, that part of life that isn’t work? The part that is relegated to the few hours of your day between waking and leaving for work and coming home and going to sleep?
That’s what we’ve been doing, and it’s been heavenly. Lounging, reading, watching, browsing, shopping, roleplaying, coding, loving and Thinking.
Like putting the brain into sleep mode (with, in the back of your head, the knowledge that it will inevitably be awakened brutally tomorrow morning when Rikke’s cell, with some glee I think, brings us back into worker-ant-mode).
Dear Mr. Mattrick,
My 360 broke down with red ring of death a while back. Tragically, with the 360 having a 16.4% failure-rate, there’s nothing unusual about that.
What is unusual, is just how difficult it turns out to be to get my 360 repaired. Especially considering just how many millions of consoles that must be going through your system; I kind of thought you would’ve would have streamlined the process to help your users, since it is such an outspread problem.
Continue reading ‘Don’t buy the Xbox 360. It’s noisy and it breaks.’
My job as a game designer, my nearly life-long hobby of roleplaying, much of my interest in writing and reading; these are rings in the water, emanating from the pebble that was Gary Gygax, starting for me, with the red book above.
I raise my +1 longsword in salute.
Holy shit; where did that come from!? A 36-track double-album from Trent? That’s a hell of a way to start the week. A hell of a way.
Did anyone hear about this ahead of time? It’s like the polar opposite of the release-extravaganza that was Year Zero. And judging from what I’ve heard so far, so is the album itself. The album art is different for each track by the way.
I love my iPhone, but there’s one thing I don’t understand. With my iPod, formatted with FAT32, I could connect it both at home and at work, and effortlessly stream music off of it or even copy music onto it in both places. Not so with the iPhone. It is bound to my workstation. Sure, I can connect it to my workstation (or my MacBook Pro or Rikke’s Powerbook or someone else’s computer), and they will detect it just fine. But the music on it is inaccessible…
If I try to turn on ‘manage manually’, which is what worked with my iPod, it tells me I have to erase the music library to bind it to the current computer!
Combined with the minijack port being compatible only with Apple headphones (what’s that about?!), this effectively makes it a pain in the ass to use at work. After all, I spent good money getting myself a pair of awesome headphones (Beyerdynamic DT 770); yet if I want to listen to something off of the iPhone, I have to use Apple’s headphones?
In turn, this has me switching back and forth between headphones, as I have to listen to something from my workstation and then back on the iPhone for a podcast, or whatever.
I love that it can be disconnected at any time, so I can take a call if necessary, and as such I accept that it doesn’t work as a HDD. But how can this be intentional? At least let me stream my own music off of the damn thing; that’s the least you can do.