I've watched a lot of movies this week, so I think I'll do a quick review of them. I know that my opinions matter to all of you, so here goes: ( Possible spoilers ahead )

Well, I just got back from a crazy, spur-of-the-moment roadtrip. My friend Jenny called me up on Friday and asked "Do you want to go to Shikoku tomorrow?" Shikoku isn't exactly close by. Getting there requires driving about 3 hours, either crossing the world's longest suspension bridge or taking an hour long ferry, and then another hour or two ( Read more... )

The reports are completely true. Since there's been several interesting looking games coming out for it, I decided to take a long lunch yesterday and went out to buy a new Nintendo DS Lite. I went to every game shop in my city (all four of them), and it was sold out at every one of them. Even at the toy store that has so few customers / sales ( Read more... )

This one's mainly for Kristin, but if you haven't yet, go watch the trailer for the new Silent Hill movie. Are we finally getting a video game movie that doesn't suck? I hope so.

Since I had a night of camouflage painting planned, I stopped off at the convenience store after work yesterday to buy some newspaper to line my kitchen floor with. Having no intention of actually reading the paper, I simply grabbed the first one I could find and headed home. When I arrived, I finally discovered what I had picked up ( Read more... )

After a weekend spent largely away from the news and the Internet, I spent the morning at work catching up. Particularly by reading the discussions on fark over the "George W. Bush authorized illegal spying on American citizens" fiasco. Needless to say I was appalled by this and by the ability of some people to still support it. Searching for ( Read more... )

I have to go play Santa Claus again in about an hour. No, I didn't gain any weight since I did it last year. Yes, I'll try to get pictures.

In the War on Christmas, I'm our agent behind enemy lines.

So I've finally gotten started on my programming project. My eventual goal is to write a simple ray tracer, a web browser based front end, and access to a database of previously created objects, scenes, material types, etc. But for a first milestone, I'm just aiming for the ray tracer. However ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving! Pour some gravy on the curb for your homies who can't be there (like me).

Argh!!! My fucking iBook just crapped out again! Time to send it in for logic board #4.

Doesn't Apple have a 3 strikes and we replace it rule?