I just found the best damned website in the entire world. It’s the English version of the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea… aka the official North Korean mouthpiece. Only here can you read the truth about the American Imperialists ::cough:: and the nation-wide physical strength checkup.
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The Virgin Super-Ultra-Mega-Corporation unveiled its newest subsidiary today, Virgin Galactic LLC, thereby proving, once again, that truth really is stranger than fiction.
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Quoth ‘George Lucas:’ “There can be no doubt…that I have gone totally batshit fucking loco.”
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I’m not really, but it sounded like a half-decent blog title.
Topics:
1. Life
2. iRooster
3. Work
4. Video Games
1. Life
Life is good, by and large. I’m a bit more overworked than usual, but I can’t say I’m too surprised by this. It won’t last more than another 5-6 weeks, so that’s really not the end of the world. Besides, when I am really busy I have less time to spend money, and that’s never a bad thing, really 
.
Seriously, though, I spent the bulk of the weekend with Jamie, as always. We saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow on Friday. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It was a hell of a lot of fun.
Yesterday we went to the REI flagship store here in Seattle. The thing is fucking HUGE! I needed a good, reliable rain+cold weather jacket, and the $40 thing I bought at the Gap wasn’t cutting it anymore. It’s funny, but living here requires certain types of clothing that you wouldn’t even consider in Minnesota.
Typical winter garb in MN was:
– Boxers
– Thermal Underwear
– 1 or 2 pairs of socks (seriously)
– Shitty leather shoes that cost me twenty bucks when I was in high school
– Jeans
– a t-shirt
– thermal underwear top
– a wool sweater
– possibly a vest
– a scarf
– one or two hats depending on the day (I had an ultra-thin Helly Hansen that I would put under a wool cap)
– gloves, or preferably mittens
This is what you need to safely wander around outside in Minneapolis in the middle of January without getting cold.
Seattle, on the other hand, requires less attire:
– Boxers
– Socks
– Jeans
– Shoes that are semi water-resistant
– T-shirt
– A Fleece, preferably from North Face or Columbia.
– Rain- and wind-proof jacket, preferably from North Face or Columbia.
Anyway, you get the idea. The trick is that Seattle doesn’t get that cold, but the air is more damp, and therefore bone-chilling than in Minnesota.
Long story short, I bought a $200 jacket from REI that should last me until the end of time.
2. iRooster
I released 1.2 Beta 3 the other day. I have two major bugs to track down and squash, and then it’s RTM time! Woo-hoo! I seriously can’t wait. I’ve been wanting to investigate a few other projects for months now, and it’s finally looking more realistic.
3. Work
As you may know, we released Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh the other day. This is Beta 1 + the Team System components. Very cool stuff. Like I said before, work’s nuts, but it’ll chill a little in the next couple months.
4. Video Games
It’s started. Fable came out last week. Half-Life is at release candidate. By the time I’m done with Fable, I should have a shit-ton of other games to start playing (you can see the list below).
w00t!
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Realistically, I will probably end up buying all of these someday. Short-term, I plan on getting Fable, Halo 2, MGS 3, Half-Life 2, and KOTOR 2. Lotsa cool games coming out soon… Only two of the titles below are not for XBox, curiously .
Fable – Sept 14
Second Sight – Sept 21
Halo 2 – Nov 9
Conker: Live and Reloaded – Dec 7 2004
MGS 3: Snake Eater – Nov or Dec 2004
KOTOR 2 – Dec 2004
Half-Life 2 – ??? 2004
Jade Empire – March 1 2005
Super Monkey Crack Deluxe – 2005
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I made it back safely from Minneapolis.
I just released iRooster 1.2 Beta 2 on my website.
I’m sleepy so I will write more later.
Cheers, all.
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I may hate Limp Bizkit, but I’m starting to really like Fred Durst. Did you know he has a weblog now? Did you know that he likes Death Cab for Cutie?
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I’ve been in Minneapolis since Wednesday, and I haven’t had readily available internet access most of the time. I’ve been chilling out, writing code (iRooster and a little app for work), and catching up with friends and family.
iRooster 1.2 Beta 1 was released to customers yesterday. I haven’t received too much feedback on it yet, but it is Labor Day Weekend after all. More dogfooding of iRooster has revealed a few bugs I hadn’t even considered before, like what behavior should happen after an alarm with the snooze window up runs out of songs to play on the playlist.
Ben Folds’s new EP just came out about two weeks ago and I picked it up over the iTunes Music Store a few days ago. I sometimes forget how much I love his music; it never fails to make me laugh. Get Your Hands Off My Woman, one of the songs on the EP, includes catchy lines like “you were drunk and you were surly in Latino lover-mode,” and “Get your hands off of my woman, motherfucker!” I think it loses something in this form, but it’s worth checking out.
Regarding politics, I think I’m just as worried as every other Democrat about the evaporation of Kerry’s thin lead. Zell Miller, although sounding like a total nut-job, evidently did not stoop to the depths delved by Pat Buchanan back in 1992. Oh well.
The Dems need to get back on message: Bush Fucked Things Up. We’re really terrible when it comes to staying on message, since life is replete with gray areas that make it incredibly easy to wander off into pseudo-dissertation mode.
Strangely, I don’t think that doing things like that really help win over the lower-middle class families in Ohio (or Michigan, Washington, Florida, Oregon, Maine, New Hampshire, etc.) who got screwed over the past four years without really understanding why or how. Oh well. Here’s hoping.
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