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Hey, it's me again. Been a while. Do you feel like catching up? I'll go first.

So, Angie and I got an apartment. Moved in together. Fought. Broke Up. Talked about it. Got back together. My apartment is now an empty shell that I can't get rid of. I'm living back in my parent's place. And, my mom's dog pissed all over my futon.

I'll leave that stuff at that, since you can't ignore those major life issues, but don't have to dedicate all of your time to fretting about them. Lets talk about stuff that isn't depressing.

VIDEO GAMES
Oh man, Shadow Complex was a good'un. Classic enough that I remembered I never played Metroidvania: Symphony of the Platformer, so I'm in the middle of that one, getting my ass handed to me by Medusa Heads with their sinusoidal flight path.

MOVIES
Extract was fun.
9 was very anime like.
Timetraveller's Wife was a chick flick and had too much ass in it.
Inglorius Basterds could have done away with about an hour's worth of dialog if it wanted to be a good film.
And District 9 was pretty damn awesome, if not nightmarishly violent.

GNUOEY
Still going strong with Ubuntu. I find myself doing more and more in a terminal these days.

TROWSER SNAKE
Lost interest with Python. It was good learning, but it has too many gotchas for my taste.

WAYWARD
Hey, I managed to get in like a commit in the last 5 months. But it was a good one, finally got a good architecture for the boss AI code.


So, how have you been?

So, the Ubuntu experiment has went better than expected. I never once felt the need to return to windows in the last month. I'm sticking with it, at least until the 09.10 upgrade breaks everything on me.

Yesterday Angie and I went to go see Pixar's Up. Man that movie was great. Not to spoil much, but I love how they captured the depressing human condition in the first 10 minutes of the movie. If they ended it there, I'm sure this thing would have won some crazy art film awards.

Anyway, I'm picking up Python. I dove in head first about two weeks ago, and I am just loving this freaking language (2.6 dialect). It's a little weird not having to end everything with end or } but I got used to it really fast. It make programs pretty damn readable. To facilitate my python education, most of my experiments have been in pygame, of course. That's also cool, being able to get shit up and running really fast. Here's my first experiment: mapview using the tileset and "hub" map from Wayward.

Just got my FICO credit score back. First time I got a number associated with it, weird to see it so high, I was expecting it to be dismal.

Anyway, I made the switch to Ubuntu as an experiment and I freaking love it. I don't feel compelled at all to return to XP. It's only been a week and I feel like I have my dream set up already (firefox, thunderbird, xchat, pidgin, audacious). I have just a few things to finish ironing out the details, like my encrypted passwords file. I got used to password safe auto opening it and I lost track of where the file actually was.

Also, Angie and I just spent the day together. Three Year anniversary since we met. :)

Good ways to waste time:
* File your taxes online.

No wait, that's not a good way at all.

I normally don't do these, but this one was too good to pass up.



XD

So, love is cool. It lacks a few specific features I'd want, but otherwise it's a nice demonstration of how to link sdl and lua yet again. I think I got esdemo1 hooked on it though.

SDL_LOTS_OF_WRAPPERS
Anyways, I went back to play with sdl_mixer, sdl_image, and sdl_ttf again. It was actually stupid easy working with them once I got the linker issues resolved. Trying to build from source in the past caused me heartache, so just going with the provided binaries simplifed things greatly. It's only proved to me more and more that reinventing the wheel is totally not the way to go. Specifically when you have a girlfriend that you'd rather spend time with than code, you need to maximize the utility of the time you do actually spend coding for fun.

The number of dependencies does shoot through the roof, though.

ROOT CANAL
I got that lingering toothache for the last few months fixed with invasive surgery. I have a crown now in my mouth. Considering how close to the "future" we actually are now, my transition into an artificial being has begun. See you fleshbag jerks later.

LAYOFFS
The guy sitting next to me at work got laid off. Sucks, because that dude was pretty cool to talk to. His desk has been taken over by a guy who doesn't talk much, except to make the occasional funny quip.

STOP MOTION
Coraline was a cool movie. But, I probably should have had the 3d glasses, and, gone when there wasn't like a million children in the theater. For the record, I took Angie to see it with me, and I wasn't that creepy guy staring at your kids.

ALL WILL BE KNOWN
This season of Battlestar Galactica is turning out great, albeit convenient. They've been dangling plot lines in our face for so long that now its resolution resolution resolution tom zareck resolution. I don't think it would have ruined the series to let us in on a couple of these things a little earlier, rather than all at the end.

VD
I got a cold on Valentine's day, so it was rice soup and shivering on the couch with Angie for me this weekend. She loved the Yo Yo plushy.

FLESHBAGS
I've been playing too much Left4Dead lately. Or, too little. I can't decide, maybe I need to play a few more games to figure out. Anyone with xbox want to play with me? I love the crap out of the Dead Air scenario, we'll play that.