Ok, now this is completely out of hand
A smartass would point out that the very last post is A) over two weeks old and B) contains a promise to update more often. And unfortunately for me, I'm a smartass. Suckage. In my defense, it's been a very busy two weeks.
So a quick outline. Two weeks ago today, Lee and I drove down to LA for E3. There was three days of E3, followed by 4 days of the "Big Honking Road Trip 2K4" where I tooled around California with a couple of my buddies from Virginia and went to Hooters. THEN, on the last day of that I picked up my new HD TiVo. THEN I broke my television while trying to fix some settings that were blocking using the HD TiVo. Then I had to repair that somewhat, arrange for a professional calibrator to fix the rest, and stay home while he did that. Woot. Then this weekend was the Prerelease tournament for the newest Magic set (Fifth Dawn), and my friend Tony bought an Xbox so I got another free 2 month Xbox Live account and bought Project Gotham Racing 2 to race against him. Oh and during E3 my server machines barfed, so I couldn't update the web page or even get email during E3 or BHRT2K4.
Whew. I think that's it in the super short form. Some of these topics obviously merit more discussion.
Most obvious point: Enterprise in HD is AMAZING. I thought HD hockey was good, but Enterprise is just totally insane. Any TV retailer worth their salt needs a TiVo with some of the last eps on it.
Does anybody in my readership actually give a rats-ass about Magic? I could discuss Fifth Dawn more, but I don't think anyone cares. If you do, comment below . . . .
Lastly, my current Live Gamertag is ChromaticGnu. The problem with using the 2 free month cards is that they never release the GamerTags I use - so all the variants of HiddenJester are blocked up now. Anyway, if any of you have a Live account send me a friend req. And if you have PGR2 let me know, Tony and I would like to have more than 2 people in our races :-)
A smartass would point out that the very last post is A) over two weeks old and B) contains a promise to update more often. And unfortunately for me, I'm a smartass. Suckage. In my defense, it's been a very busy two weeks.
So a quick outline. Two weeks ago today, Lee and I drove down to LA for E3. There was three days of E3, followed by 4 days of the "Big Honking Road Trip 2K4" where I tooled around California with a couple of my buddies from Virginia and went to Hooters. THEN, on the last day of that I picked up my new HD TiVo. THEN I broke my television while trying to fix some settings that were blocking using the HD TiVo. Then I had to repair that somewhat, arrange for a professional calibrator to fix the rest, and stay home while he did that. Woot. Then this weekend was the Prerelease tournament for the newest Magic set (Fifth Dawn), and my friend Tony bought an Xbox so I got another free 2 month Xbox Live account and bought Project Gotham Racing 2 to race against him. Oh and during E3 my server machines barfed, so I couldn't update the web page or even get email during E3 or BHRT2K4.
Whew. I think that's it in the super short form. Some of these topics obviously merit more discussion.
Most obvious point: Enterprise in HD is AMAZING. I thought HD hockey was good, but Enterprise is just totally insane. Any TV retailer worth their salt needs a TiVo with some of the last eps on it.
Does anybody in my readership actually give a rats-ass about Magic? I could discuss Fifth Dawn more, but I don't think anyone cares. If you do, comment below . . . .
Lastly, my current Live Gamertag is ChromaticGnu. The problem with using the 2 free month cards is that they never release the GamerTags I use - so all the variants of HiddenJester are blocked up now. Anyway, if any of you have a Live account send me a friend req. And if you have PGR2 let me know, Tony and I would like to have more than 2 people in our races :-)
So a quick outline. Two weeks ago today, Lee and I drove down to LA for E3. There was three days of E3, followed by 4 days of the "Big Honking Road Trip 2K4" where I tooled around California with a couple of my buddies from Virginia and went to Hooters. THEN, on the last day of that I picked up my new HD TiVo. THEN I broke my television while trying to fix some settings that were blocking using the HD TiVo. Then I had to repair that somewhat, arrange for a professional calibrator to fix the rest, and stay home while he did that. Woot. Then this weekend was the Prerelease tournament for the newest Magic set (Fifth Dawn), and my friend Tony bought an Xbox so I got another free 2 month Xbox Live account and bought Project Gotham Racing 2 to race against him. Oh and during E3 my server machines barfed, so I couldn't update the web page or even get email during E3 or BHRT2K4.
Whew. I think that's it in the super short form. Some of these topics obviously merit more discussion.
Most obvious point: Enterprise in HD is AMAZING. I thought HD hockey was good, but Enterprise is just totally insane. Any TV retailer worth their salt needs a TiVo with some of the last eps on it.
Does anybody in my readership actually give a rats-ass about Magic? I could discuss Fifth Dawn more, but I don't think anyone cares. If you do, comment below . . . .
Lastly, my current Live Gamertag is ChromaticGnu. The problem with using the 2 free month cards is that they never release the GamerTags I use - so all the variants of HiddenJester are blocked up now. Anyway, if any of you have a Live account send me a friend req. And if you have PGR2 let me know, Tony and I would like to have more than 2 people in our races :-)
Happy Blogday!
I realized that I started this blog right before E3 2003 and that it had to be about one year old. And indeed, my first post was on 5/7/03. So Happy Birthday to the blog. It's had some dry spells, but I've learned a lot about blogging, and we've even had some good conversations. I'll try to be a little better about posting this year, I promise :-)
I realized that I started this blog right before E3 2003 and that it had to be about one year old. And indeed, my first post was on 5/7/03. So Happy Birthday to the blog. It's had some dry spells, but I've learned a lot about blogging, and we've even had some good conversations. I'll try to be a little better about posting this year, I promise :-)
History Lesson
Folklore.org has a series of fascinating little articles about creating the original Macintosh. It's been my incessant build reading for the last couple of days - each article is short and fits nicely into watching the PC chew on code.
Yes, I did find this due to some Mac RSS feeds I have lying about. No I don't want any Kool-Aid. Sheesh, what is with you people and Kool-Aid lately?
Folklore.org has a series of fascinating little articles about creating the original Macintosh. It's been my incessant build reading for the last couple of days - each article is short and fits nicely into watching the PC chew on code.
Yes, I did find this due to some Mac RSS feeds I have lying about. No I don't want any Kool-Aid. Sheesh, what is with you people and Kool-Aid lately?
Yes, I did find this due to some Mac RSS feeds I have lying about. No I don't want any Kool-Aid. Sheesh, what is with you people and Kool-Aid lately?
Interview on Wideload Games
So everybody has probably seen the news about Alex Seropian leaving Bungie to found his own game studio. And that had the little, almost content-free blurb about how Wideload was going to be small and contract out a lot of the production. Gamesindustry.biz has an interview with him that gets a little deeper into the plan.
So everybody has probably seen the news about Alex Seropian leaving Bungie to found his own game studio. And that had the little, almost content-free blurb about how Wideload was going to be small and contract out a lot of the production. Gamesindustry.biz has an interview with him that gets a little deeper into the plan.
Where's Timmeh?
Well I'd blame E3 demos - but that's only partially true. Blaming City of Heroes is more accurate. First off, I think CoH is a really good game - a nice fresh take on MMO's. Secondly - it hit a real sweet spot in my gaming psyche. Final Fantasy's leveling system is brutal, and it is really unfriendly to hanging out with friends. Right around the time I figured that all out is when I got access to CoH. So I was still in an online groove, but unhappy with FFXI.
Anyway, if you think you might like CoH I'd recommend giving it a shake. I can post more about why I like it if there's interest. I play on Guardian server, stop by and drop a line to VoidStar. If you promise to be nice he'll even let you join his supergroup - The Sans Pantalones Society. They are protecting freedom and justice - Sans Pantalones!
:-)
(BTW, E3 demos are a pain. But all my readers probably already knew that.)
Well I'd blame E3 demos - but that's only partially true. Blaming City of Heroes is more accurate. First off, I think CoH is a really good game - a nice fresh take on MMO's. Secondly - it hit a real sweet spot in my gaming psyche. Final Fantasy's leveling system is brutal, and it is really unfriendly to hanging out with friends. Right around the time I figured that all out is when I got access to CoH. So I was still in an online groove, but unhappy with FFXI.
Anyway, if you think you might like CoH I'd recommend giving it a shake. I can post more about why I like it if there's interest. I play on Guardian server, stop by and drop a line to VoidStar. If you promise to be nice he'll even let you join his supergroup - The Sans Pantalones Society. They are protecting freedom and justice - Sans Pantalones!
:-)
(BTW, E3 demos are a pain. But all my readers probably already knew that.)
Anyway, if you think you might like CoH I'd recommend giving it a shake. I can post more about why I like it if there's interest. I play on Guardian server, stop by and drop a line to VoidStar. If you promise to be nice he'll even let you join his supergroup - The Sans Pantalones Society. They are protecting freedom and justice - Sans Pantalones!
:-)
(BTW, E3 demos are a pain. But all my readers probably already knew that.)