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.