Now I’m Thinking With Portals!
I started playing Portal today, and even though I’m at the next to last “level” after just a little over an hour of playing, it is one of the greatest games that I can think of. The humor is even greater than the trailer everyone loved (“If at first you don’t succeed… You fail.”) and the portal gun is super fun to play around with. I think that maybe if you combined that with the gravity gun, people might just have to play it non-stop.
I did a CD case consolidation in my mom’s car today as an extension of sorting and ripping some additional CDs that were in various places upstairs. I’m slowly but surely working towards my ultimate media goal. This is, in case you’re wondering, to have all of our CDs, DVDs, recorded/downloaded shows, etc. all on the file server out in our garage. We can then, therefore, have access to all of it from any computer not only in our house but when we’re on vacation, I’m out at UTD, and so on. The media aggregation part of it is going well, so my next step is to find either software or scripts that will allow the remote (web) interface. I’d like to say that if I can’t find anything that I would go ahead and write my own, but I seriously doubt that it’ll come to that.