So is everyone but me aware of this SOMA radio thing? Wil Wheaton mentioned it today on his blog and I'm chilling with the "Secret Agent" feed right now and it is quite awesome. (Tip for the iTunes users - the first link (48k aacPlus) works great. Open the file in iTunes and it loads right up.) Hey, what's this fiction thingie doing down below? People should totally go read it. Not being hip to the exploits of Captain Arcolier makes the baby Chuji cry! Come back next Tuesday to see the totally hip nautical usage of the word "belay"! My 360 has been a bit crashy-crashy which is quite worrisome. I thought it might be heat, but as far as I can tell the thing never gets that hot (and the power brick is never even slightly warm.) I'm theorizing it was having some power brownout issues and moved it's plug straight into the line conditioner. We'll see. Theory B is probably bad hardware which would again make the baby Chuji cry. I've decided what the 360 needs is more FPS's! Oh yeah. At the moment I have Ghost Recon Advanced Warrior (aka GRAW), Perfect Dark Zero (bought really for coop play), and Call of Duty 2 (rented from Gamefly at the moment). The most annoying thing is control differences. PDZ and GRAW both have crouch on left stick click, and CoD2 has it on B. Flipping between three different FPS's hurts my muscle memory. Really though, read yesterday's entry. Stop me before I pimp again! You might be thinking "He wouldn't really do that, has he no shame?". Say that again to yourself slowly and picture me in your head. Yeah that's right. You're scared now!

I've always been very sensitive to light. I wouldn't say I get Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, but I like a nice dose of sunshine. One of the big draws of the working from home is that I can reach out and touch the large window in my office. It seems like it's taking longer and longer to get any useful sun these days. It is still completely dark when Karin leaves in the morning. According to Senor Weatherdock sunrise is at 7:22 today, but it will be cloudy, so it's going to be early afternoon before we see some good light. I would have said a just a week or two ago I had morning sunlight blasting through the blinds and straight into my retinas during morning cofffee/email/web. Now I've got two lights on in my office, and only milky, crudddy gray light is outside. I'm always surprised when Daylight Saving Time kicks in, so I say out with the PDT and in with the PST. But we've got another week. And in 2007 they add another week!

One day I'll get around to figuring out to use del.icio.us but until then I'll just dump some links here. 1) Over at Lost Garden an excellent essay on alternate business models for game companies. 2) Secondary markets - they are destroying video games! Not so says GamerDad 3) Secondary markets - they are destroying publishing! Not so says Miss Snark 4) Folk version of Baby Got Back? Go to Jonathan Coulton for the hookup. While you're there check out the Ikea song which I've heard from IndieFeed. I haven't listened to his other stuff, but I will soonish.

The highly recommended Wonderland had a reference to UK Resistance today, where I found this which I found funny (and also emailled to some folks). Browsing around the site I found this and this. I'm going to talk about them in the next paragraph so go there first if you want to avoid spoilers. I thought the PS3 was grinworthy, nothing spectacular. But for some reason the thought that 360 would see EA bring a separate shooter for every year of the war made me giggle for about a minute. Then I noticed "1946: After the War" and "1947: Return to War" and had a second giggle fit. Just as I recovered from that, I saw that the list wasn't all shooters. Way at the bottom is wacky Ubisoft with "Trenchfoot Pete" as a platformer. Try as they might to cash on in the WWII FPS thang, they are just too French to pull it off! Ahh, that's just classic.