How insane is it that Valve's marketing is so effective that I would consider buying a SECOND Orange Box because of the $9.99 price tag.

Just booked lodgings at the Green Tortoise hostel in Seattle for Penny Arcade Expo 2009. w00t!

Hooray for birthdays! Didn't pack a lunch today 'cause I knew I'd be eating cake. I love food. Hoping against obesity... and diabetes :D :D

Inspired by @doctorow and at least one of his essays, I think tonight after work I'm going to configure my Linux PC to play my BluRay movies

Installing Ubuntu 9.04 from the 11.1MB mini.iso

It's so tempting to download the latest Ubuntu on 0-day... The updates are terribly slow for the first week, though.

Eating my penne pasta like a game of Jenga, and there's no one around to tell me not to play with my food.

Yes! Robotic penguins. How cool is that? http://ping.fm/NCngM

Looking forward to Friday evening. I hope I didn't mis-understand that it's a dinner. Mmm. Dinner.

Just finished watching the first X-Men movie. The X-Men boxed trilogy is an impressive 9 discs large.

Just scored the last Blu-Ray X-Men Trilogy on the shelf at Future Shop. Best date-night ever.

Slowly convincing myself that XML is the way to go for storing and retrieving saved game information and individual levels/challenges. #java

Slowly rocking Slick with Java. It's been almost two years since I last sat down for some serious Java programming sessions. It feels good.

Putting some time into Generic2DPlatformer. Lots of grand ideas in my head. A few make it to paper. Will see what's do-able.

Busy day keeping the provincial exams in order... It's always busy when the exams are going on.

Running dungeons in Dungeon Runners. It's been so long since I logged in.

Broke my car key :-/ Crap.

Home with my wife's brand-new mountain bike. It's as much a gift for her as it is for me.

Working... but it's an awesome day to go for a walk around Rattlesnake Point. http://ping.fm/8lFBw

Learning vim. Look, Mom! I'm a real programmer now.