Thanksgiving Goodness
Thanksgiving break this year was amazing. Was wonderful seeing Cleveland family and friends. Lots of good food, too. Dined with my brother at the Baricelli Inn (an excellent restaurant recently improved under new management), was invited to two fantastic Thanksgiving dinners...
Helped my mom shop for a new computer early in the week, she bought one of the new Acer desktops. Their new case design is amazingly compact. Windows 7 actually seems rather okay, they seem to have fixed a lot of the bugs of Vista and improved the UI. They seem to have ripped off a lot of Mac UI features wholesale, but I don't really object to that, since it's an improvement. (I wonder if that will be detrimental, though, sales-wise. A lot of people are skipping XP to 7, and while I'd conclude that 7 is superior for new users, I wonder if it will be too much of a change for those used to XP.)
Got in a DnD session in that still-running-very-infrequently campaign of Xave's.
Saw Sleep Dealer with Dan and Xave last evening. Was an awesome near-future cyberpunk drama set in a world of closed borders, decidedly weak AI, and ubiquitous telepresence; think Guil Gómez-Peña meets Phillip K. Dick. Strongly recommend it.
Helped my mom shop for a new computer early in the week, she bought one of the new Acer desktops. Their new case design is amazingly compact. Windows 7 actually seems rather okay, they seem to have fixed a lot of the bugs of Vista and improved the UI. They seem to have ripped off a lot of Mac UI features wholesale, but I don't really object to that, since it's an improvement. (I wonder if that will be detrimental, though, sales-wise. A lot of people are skipping XP to 7, and while I'd conclude that 7 is superior for new users, I wonder if it will be too much of a change for those used to XP.)
Got in a DnD session in that still-running-very-infrequently campaign of Xave's.
Saw Sleep Dealer with Dan and Xave last evening. Was an awesome near-future cyberpunk drama set in a world of closed borders, decidedly weak AI, and ubiquitous telepresence; think Guil Gómez-Peña meets Phillip K. Dick. Strongly recommend it.