The Daily Goob

If you’re seeing this, I let my scheduled post go through. No conclusions can really be drawn on if something else came up or not, but all we really know is that I didn’t change this up since I wrote it in the morning. I could either have found better things to do, or I may just be sitting 10 feet away on my couch watching something on TV, knowing that there’s no need for me to get up and make a post since I had one already prepared.

PA did their post-PAX retreat to Vegas last weekend, and this was one of the comics that went online around that timeframe. It’s both not an entirely unreasonable conclusion to make from the name, but at the same time I don’t really know anyone who would do such a thing. That said, there may just be an awesome business opportunity for someone in Vegas to play off that name and confuse quite a few individuals in the other direction.

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I’ve been making progress with Galaxy 2 the past couple of nights, and with any luck, I’ll have beat it by this weekend (maybe tomorrow, but let’s say this weekend to be safe). I doubt I’ll go for all 120 stars on it ever; I didn’t do that with Sunshine, and one of the only reason I did it on Super Mario 64 was because I had so few other games to occupy my time with then.

After reading an article earlier this week about how Final Fantasy XIII-2 is supposed to be out in January, I’ll probably start playing 13. The nice thing about the series is that with the exception of the –2 games, it really doesn’t matter what order you play them in. The bad news is that Penny Arcade can make comics like this one that are unfortunately quite true.

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Dallas, 11:10 AM: In an effort to be like last year as much as possible, I’m not making this into a scheduled post, as that would just throw off the timestamp concept that I so religiously use. You’ll just have to deal with an early, triple category post (yes, another one!) today and wait for an evening one to come tomorrow. Well, I say that, but I’ll have to make it before I leave, so in blog time it’ll be a solid mid-afternoon post.

Three categories implies that I was able to find some sort of media to put into this post, and I wasn’t trying to mislead you with that statement earlier. In fact, both XKCD and Penny Arcade had a good comic recently, so I had to decide the one I wanted to go with. If you look at my comic history, I’ve been alternating pretty well between the two. The last one was my XKCD repeat one though, so I feel like a new one is deserved before I jump back to Penny Arcade. Hey, I’m sure it won’t take that much longer to get around to posting it; I’ll have a Saturday or something where I won’t be around, and that will be the perfect opportunity for a comic post. I say that now, but when next spring comes and I have to write up all my PAX scheduled posts, I’m probably going to wish that I held onto some of these comics…

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I go to great lengths, searching past titles, to make sure that I never repeat one. So far, only one has ever been repeated, and that was both on purpose and before I began this policy. With comics (and I guess videos) though, they’re so new and so few, I’ve never really had to worry about that. It would be a shocker at this point to have me repeat one of those accidentally, but if the perfect opportunity to reuse a comic were to come up…should I take it?

I think I pretty much have to. My lease on my new apartment officially began today, so I went to get my keys and drop off my first set of stuff (including my newly purchased wireless router). For the comic, I present to you a two year old XKCD, used once before when I first moved up here and found my apartment in Redmond. Even though it’s old, that doesn’t make it any less relevant or accurate.

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After tonight, I really have no excuses left for not doing something productive with other forms of entertainment in my life. I did play OOT yesterday which might keep being one of my primary entertainment methods for a while, especially because I apparently don’t remember as much of it as I thought I did. I’m not getting lost or anything, but there have definitely been two things that I think are pretty crucial to the game that I had completely forgotten about having to do, and I’m not even on my way to the second dungeon yet. For every instance of that there’s a near muscle memory path through the Lost Woods though, so perhaps it all evens out in the end.

Penny Arcade published the awesome comic below on Monday, and I wasn’t about to hold onto it for too long out of fear that I’d forget about it during PAX or something. Since today was a perfect fit for a comic post, there wasn’t a good justification to not use it. Sure, comic posts are no longer limited to scheduled ones, but other posts can be substantial without them.

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I thought it had gone away, but I’m once again drawn back towards the allure of getting a tablet before the ARM-based Windows 8 ones arrive. After (re)surveying the landscape, I’m left with the conclusion that the only one really worth buying at the present time is, sadly, an iPad 2. When iOS 5 releases later this fall a lot of my iOS dislike as well as feelings that it isn’t a tablet-worthy OS will be gone (even with the update to 4.0, my iPhone 3G was effectively still running 3.x, and that leaves out multitasking plus the ability to fully cut the cord arriving in 5), but I still haven’t forgotten just how deflated my opinion was of my iPhone towards the end of my time using it. I’m still optimistically looking at Android, hoping it can get its act together and produce a decent competitor over the summer, but maybe by then I won’t care about one anymore. We can hope.

Last week Google announced their Facebook competitor, Google+, and the internet either reacted with complete apathy (e.g. me) or the standard level of “Google just released a new product!” interest that has people scrambling for invites to an exclusive service. Personally, I feel like Google+ is going to end up being a lot like Wave where there was a ton of initial excitement, but ultimately people didn’t end up using it. That said, I know more than a couple friends on Facebook who are intending on switching to it exclusively, so maybe I’m wrong and it’ll be able to give Facebook a run for its money. There will have to be a critical mass of people or a killer feature to get me to switch though; I’m perfectly happy with where I am for the time being.

Harry Potter Progress Tracker:

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So much for the nice 10 day forecast? I guess with those being the highs it’s allowed to be in the 50s when I wake up, but it was kind of disappointing. That plus the fact that I have to be at work tomorrow the same time I woke up today means that I get even more of the not awesome weather experience. The Mavs won though and tied the Finals at 2-2, so I guess that makes up for it.

Perhaps this really should have been added onto the end of yesterday’s post (it was yesterday’s comic, after all), but a day late isn’t too bad. Just think about when you would have seen it if I hadn’t started the trend of having comics in my posts? Yeah, that’s right – never.

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Man, this whole “post a comic or video every weekend” thing is starting to dwindle my supply, especially when I do crazy things like post them in the middle of the week also. Either I need to find more sources of blog-appropriate entertainment online, or I need to stop putting myself in the situation of needing to make so many scheduled posts. Well, fine, technically none of these have “needed” to be a scheduled post, but I’ve graduated beyond posting that I just woke up and you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to figure out if anything interesting went down today.

Given that fact that I’m about to go to a party, this comic seems appropriate. Maybe in this universe being able to correct people who are wrong at parties is something desirable, but I know the world I live in. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to uhhhh…finish reading Wikipedia before I leave.

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One of the things Microsoft announced at MIX was the Kinect SDK for Windows, making officially supported a lot of the hacking that the community had done since the device was released. It will be interesting to see exactly what can come out of it now that there’s an official dev platform. Who knows, Kinect might just revolutionize the way we interact with PCs as well?

Your scheduled post entertainment comes today courtesy of Penny Arcade, comparing and contrasting the capabilities of the Kinect vs the Playstation Move, Sony’s entry into the whole motion controlled gaming space. As you can see, there’s not really all that much of a contest. It’s ok though, Sony, I’m sure some people prefer your light on a stick.

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50 years ago, people imagined all this crazy “futuristic” stuff that has yet to come to pass. At the same time, a whole lot of new stuff was invented that they could have never imagined in their wildest dreams. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love things like flying cars, but at the expense of where we are with computers and phones? In that light, I’m content with cars and airplanes remaining two separate forms of transportation (for now).

My stake in the ground for 50 years from now involves teleportation to the moon. You know what I’ll probably get? Angry Birds 567 in 5D.

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