Geez I am terrible about writing

Yup.

Will Wright Quits EA to work at his Stupid Fun Club

The headline is exactly it. Will Wright is leaving EA, who ate Maxis, to work at a thinktank of his own genesis (which is now EA-funded). He told the world via forum post. It's interesting he says he'll never have a blog.

EA's been a lot better about not Killing Purchased Creativity lately. Think Will's departure has anything to do with the history of Spore? I know I found it somewhat disappointing. Perhaps I'm just not wide-eyed enough anymore to be amazed by simulations like I was with SimCity and SimAnt.

Does Anyone Remember Eternal Darkness?

That GameCube game by Silicon Knights with the patented Sanity Meter?

My favorite insanity effect was the bug on the screen, followed by the one where you walk around the newly-entered room for a bit and your head suddenly explodes. I suspect these were my favorites because these were the ones that provoked an especially spirited reaction from my roommate Chris who actually owned the game.

I was going to summarize the game here until I discovered the Wikipedia article which does a much better job of summarizing it. Anyhow, Eternal Darkess is totally worth your $15 at your local used game store.

TV Time!

Obama's delayed the World Series... (Though the rain did already.)

The Aquabats have a TV show! (I didn't know that MC Bat Commander was the Yo Gabba Gabba! guy!)

My organic chemistry professor's father is sick... The break is nice but man, I feel bad about it. Good luck, Sumita's Dad!

I got this really neat occupational suitability report from the Veteran's Administration. I've misplaced it, but I'll fill this in when I figure out where I set it. Now they just need to hurry up and start paying my tuition.

The Spirit looks like an awful movie... an AWFUL FUN movie!

Mint.com is kinda neat... it's actually decent at automatically sorting debit-card purchases into categories for budgeting. Creditkarma might also be worth a look, I'm still debating  wether or not to sign up. Scam sense is wiggling pretty hard.

Been using Google Chrome. The multithreadedness is really neat and makes it super-responsive, but it has lots of quirks that don't seem to work quite right. In-line videos are always always always messed up and lots of weird javascript/AJAX messups happen. It's dumb. Fix it, guys!

Why is software always the bump in the road?

I voted!

Mail-in ballots are super convenient!

School, Week Two!

Forgot to take my methylphenidate again this morning. This thing where the plan is to wake up to go from Seattle to Everett thing in time for school is hard.

Spent the weekend in Portland. Randomly ran into an old CY-Tagger acquaintance, that was neat.

First Day of School

Third day of methylphenidate. Well, second. Yesterday, I forgot my drugs at home and spent the Sunday in Seattle. I'm ADD enough I can't remember to take my drugs, apparently.

Need new editions of calculus and physics textbooks... What a scam.