Originally, the meetings of my day tomorrow were in the very nice 10-3 range. Now, the early one got moved to the afternoon, and another meeting was scheduled for even later in the afternoon, so the important part of my day is now from 1-6 instead. Fortunately all the meetings are in the same building, so it’s just a floor traversing exercise rather than one that involves going from building to building to building.
It might be time for another movie this weekend, but I know that whatever I go see is going to be in some way disappointing since it will inevitably get compared to How to Train Your Dragon. I mean, I could go see it again, but I figure I’ll be doing plenty of that once it comes out on DVD. Clash of the Titans is the only thing out that I really have an interest in, so the decision will be between that or waiting for Iron Man 2 in a couple of weeks.
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I was talking with some people earlier today about various gadgets and how expensive they were, and as the conversation generalized, it seems that I’m not the only one with a fairly high impulse buy price point if something is sufficiently cool (and passes my 30 day interest test, of course). I mean, we know games at $60 are well underneath that range, a Zune HD wasn’t that hard of a decision (~$200), but just how high does it go? The consensus seemed to be that up to about $300, we didn’t really have that much of an issue with price as long as it was cool enough. Good to know that it isn’t only the HP effect that gives me that opinion.
This is now effectively a two day work week, two days of school, and then a two day weekend. The work time is fairly empty, the school time is ungraded, and the weekend time will invariably be spent on something like WoW. Call me crazy, but I see these next six days as being fairly nice.
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My schedule tomorrow begins at 10:00, goes until 5:00, and the three things that compose that are all meetings/events I’ll actually be going to. I’m pretty sure tomorrow won’t be one of those days where I get really bored and have to find ways to entertain myself. If I do get bored, I’m obviously doing something very, very wrong.
If I keep choosing to play other games (*cough* WoW *cough*) over Oblivion, than I might have a problem on my hands as far as working through my 360 games. Short, well defined in story, clear progression type games are obviously the best for this type of workflow. Considering Oblivion is none of the above, we might have a bigger issue in the making than I was anticipating.
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With my next Vegas fix being taken care of courtesy of CES in January, I didn’t really have a strong case for a return this year at Thanksgiving. Also, since going to Dallas twice in a month long span seemed a little excessive, the question existed of where we wanted to go on vacation this year. Given the potential options, I’ve started to focus on New York as my candidate. Lucky for me, both of my parents seem to be supporting that option at the present time also. Now, it’s all too possible that either I or them could have a change of heart, but it’s nice to at least have something to think about.
My productivity today in WoW terms has been great, but in everything else, not so much. While I’m still probably a month or two off from reaching 80 with my Horde character, it does raise the question of what I’m going to do with him then. Since I’m playing (by design) on the server with a Microsoft guild, I could always join it. Alternatively, I could pay the money and move him over to the server with all of my other characters and have another capped one to do end game content with. If you think there will be a pattern, Cataclysm would be a very end game heavy expansion for me just like Burning Crusade was. In that situation, it might be nice.
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Post 1500!!! (Facebook people, I have no idea what note number this is for you, and I don’t feel like figuring out to be honest.)
With year six not quite in the bag, I’m now at an average of 250 posts per year. Put differently, this means that I’ve almost made 5 posts per week per year, so if you take into account that I might want the weekends off, the stats show that I’m been quite daily with my postings. So what if there were some months in the first few years of this blog where there were maybe only five posts total? Numbers don’t lie, people, and if they say I’ve been a daily poster, then I’d tend to believe them.
I don’t have plans for a movie or anything this weekend, although that could always change. With temperatures in the 60s and 70s, the logical thing would be to do something outside as long as it isn’t raining. While outside can be fun in moderation, inside has all the cool things like computers, video games and TV. Maybe if inside and outside wanted to collaborate and create a joint venture, then I wouldn’t have to decide between the two.
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Guess what, everyone? Tomorrow will be one of those “milestone” posts for The Daily Goob, and the only reason I know this is because I accidentally opened up the WordPress dashboard earlier. I would be awesome if Windows Live Writer could somehow show me the same set of stats, but I guess in the vast majority of cases it’s info that no one really cares about. I’ll leave it up to you to guess what tomorrow’s post will be, but this will now make three big events in a month. I know, I’m quite amazed just like I know you are also.
What I thought was going to make for an interesting afternoon tomorrow is no longer happening, so my day is now broken up into chunks of a meeting, then a few hours of nothing, then another meeting, then some more nothing hours. Then comes a whole weekend of nothing, but that’s a good kind of nothing. That kind lets me play WoW, watch TV, and do fun things like that. If my work nothing could be like that nothing, I wouldn’t mind having nothing to do a lot more often.
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In my ongoing saga of what I want to do with having my DVDs stored on my WHS machine, I have many options as far as what to actually rip, how to play it back where I want to watch it, and many other things. I’ve done the math, however, and I can rip at least my entire movie collection and not need to worry about running out of space. Of course, I can always grab another 2 TB drive and throw it in, so I definitely still have room to grow if absolutely required.
For all of my existing DVDs there’s the cost of ripping them again, but going forward, it actually isn’t any more work than what I’d already be doing to get them into MP4 format. I think the real answer is to keep both for compatibility reasons, and than feeds back into my earlier point quite nicely. Although considering that all of my video files together right now are just barely 100 GB, that’s really a minimal cost to have to pay.
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Since movie studios have been on the “let’s do remakes of old ones” train recently, it only makes sense that game companies would want to jump on board. Of course, given their relative ages, chances are I’ve played (or at least seen) the original games, but they’ve tended to stick with the NES franchise era (see: Prince of Persia). Now, however, the people behind Bioshock 2 are remaking one of the franchises that you could say defined a large portion of my gaming childhood. X-Com isn’t going to be the strategy game that it once was, however; 2K is giving it the FPS treatment. Hey, if the game is fun I really don’t care about the genre, but I wouldn’t mind them heading back to the Genesis plan of a first person strategy game.
As it turns out, it ended up being a good idea for me to begin working yesterday on my planned work for today because I had plenty to keep me busy and still a little more left unfinished. That will take me through the early afternoon tomorrow, and then we’re back to seeking alternative forms of entertainment. I should really be enjoying this empty week while I have it since next week is going to be an insane whirlwind where I’m out of my building almost more than I’ll be in it.
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Project Pink ultimately became announced to the world as Kin today, and it’s definitely a product with a very target demographic in mind. Actually, it’s sort of weird to see it and WP7 next to each other because they’re similar and seem to have influenced each other’s development, but neither one is a direct super/subset of the other. I would assume (or at least hope) the eventual plan is to merge the two and bring them into that sort of relationship (maybe with WP8), but for now, we’ll just see how well the Twitter generation likes being in the “loop” with their phones.
Tomorrow I have meetings for all of two hours to break up my day, but if today is any indication, that will be more than manageable. Sure, I won’t deny that I was bored at times, but I just started working on a presentation that I was originally planning to do tomorrow afternoon after the previously mentioned second meeting. Well, hopefully this means that I still have something to do tomorrow afternoon, but if not, at least I managed to make today much less boring.
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While I wasn’t playing WoW today, I actually managed to beat one of the games in my 360 stack, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. While it wasn’t an awesome game, it was fairly short (I believe I beat it across just two days of playing), and in my book, that makes it a good choice. Unfortunately, I was torn between either Oblivion or Fallout 3 as my next game, both from Bethesda, and both extremely open ended. I decided to go with Oblivion and will quickly push it aside if I’m unable to get into it (as was the case with Morrowind, hence why I didn’t buy it back in 2006) in order to make room for other, ideally shorter games.
Tomorrow really is a day of nothingness for me at work, so the entertainment fairies will need to be out in full force. This whole week with the exception of Friday is pretty much like that, but no other day is as empty as tomorrow. If there was anything I could schedule a pity meeting for I might just do that, but as of now I don’t even have that.
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