Geez I am terrible about writing

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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.

Free Online Textbooks

We need more of them.

textbookrevolution.com isn't enough.

there are things going on in the markets...

I wish I was smart and rich enough to play...

I thought credit was an engine of economic growth, creating capital for new firms?

Chicken Chasing

So Katie has these chickens...

which got loose last night.

That was a fun chicken-chase.

We caught them.

Prediction...

Eventually, someone's going to figure out that all these tabbed programs, like IMs and browsers and word processors, should be able to drag tabs back and forth between windows.

Computer desktop workspaces need to go sharable one of these days..

Home... Up and... Well... Not really.

Spent my week bleeding and reading at Katie's. The weekend has come, and I gingerly struck out on my own. Picked up Doktor Sleepless #8. So THAT'S what happened to his parents...

My roommate got an office chair. I'm falling behind the curve.

Thea's picked up a new beau... that's nice.

Twilight Imperium tomorrow. Time to start picking bits out of boxes!

Status report....

I can eat! Feeling surprisingly good. After the cab-ride to caretaker's house, where I produced a prodigious amount of bloody snotspit, I settled into bed and had a nap. She read to me; Deep Space 9 #1 - Emissary. How sweet is that? Anyhow, apparently I can eat real food and just have to avoid bumping this nose, vomiting, and swallowing too much blood.

I can breathe out of my nose about as well as I ever could... so when the swelling and stuff is over, I imagine I'll be two or three times better than when I started. Rockin'!

I'm lucky!

See, despite looking like that on the right, I get good care taken of me.

yeah, but you should see the other guy.

Well, I looked like the photo on the left a few days ago.

Now, I look like the photo on the right.

Going in for Surgery

Going to get a septoplasty, and a turbinectomy. Hopefully this'll help with my sleep apnea. I'm afraid of Empty Nose Syndrome.

Skype

Good program. Too invasive. GO AWAY, little browser plugin!

Added Tumblr, toyed with layout

Well, the videos don't quite line up the way I wanted, but I'll learn proper CSS someday instead of just randomly changing width variables and everything will work out. Until then, I'll do link amalgamation in that little sidebar! Progress!

Now if only I had something to say...

I found an old photo!

I looked like this in 2005.

The one on the left, dummy.

Trying out Google Reader

So... a lot of the links on the right were just weblog links I used frequently.

I've gone and put most of them into Google Reader. Let's see if it sticks. Now I'll have to post actual things here and not just links to other articles.

I'm already annoyed by how some sites (PA, Achewood, looking at you.) don't actually put their content in their RSS feeds. I suppose the ad revenue has to come from somewhere.

Oh, and RepairPal looks really neat... maybe I'll finally take my old-ass Subaru into the shop. That oil leak is starting to seem severe.