Isn’t it amazing? It’s finally on its way, and a beta test on Monday? I think that’s too good to pass on. I’m not sure which game I’m more excited to play, but one thing is certain: I need some memory that doesn’t suck. I just RMA’d my super-sweet low latency RAM and got some other, slightly slower stuff back, and once again there’s something amiss with the second stick.
Why does this happen to me?
Update (9/18): TF2 is finally here!
I just got back home from seeing “Weird Al” in concert for my… fourth time. As always, it was a fantastic show. I was surprised to see how he switched up the format this year, with a lot more audiovisual effects and “Albuquerque” as the encore (no seriously, that is an amazing feat to perform that every night). Well worth the trip. Unfortunately I didn’t see any of the fair, since I didn’t take any time off work. There’s always another year, I guess.
I bought my MacBook Pro approximately three months ago, and it has been fantastic, except for that small period of time where running the Airport on the battery would cause it to kernel panic. Apart from that, I could not have been happier.
Fast forward to last night, when I got back from a grueling journey to the university library to view Into the Woods for my Linguistics 3600 class, and pulled out my computer. Lo and behold, the keyboard and trackpad have stopped functioing! I am typing this with an external USB keyboard and mouse, so I know the computer is not physically damaged, but this is rather annoying. I have an appointment for tomorrow evening at the Apple Store, where I hope to get this issue resolved in a timely fashion.
I finished BioShock a couple hours ago. As it turns out, the “universal acclaim” the game has been receiving is not without merit. It really was exceptional and, as I was suspecting, sensationally original.
Judged on the quality of the game itself (and not including launch issues or complaints), BioShock is easily the most important first person shooter since Half-Life 2. It certainly is a long game; total game play approached 19 hours for me, and I’m pretty sure no other first-person shooter I’ve played has been so lengthy.
After 18 months as a university employee, I finally have set foot inside a university classroom. It’s definitely a different vibe being out and about with the peasants, so to speak 🙂
So far it hasn’t been too different than my experiences at the community college, except for the (much) larger class sizes. It looks like we’ll be learning some nifty stuff in Software Practice as well, such as creating a Half-Life 2 mod. I definitely need to get with the program as far as C++ goes, since my experience using the language has been rather limited up to this point.