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Holidays

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Wow busy holiday season.  Just had my mother and two brothers up for Christmas.  So far my vacation has been productive.  With my brothers’ help we cleared out the garage and Rochelle and my mom painted the library while I got ready to install the wall to wall bookshelves we brought over from our other house. 
 
I finally got around to seeing Terminator 3, in which I saw some nice little parallels to my own work in computer security.  I found the idea of a distributed computer node network allowing a central core to attain self awareness a cool idea. And all the while people just thought it was some kind of benign yet annoying computer virus spreading throughout the Internet. 
 
My prize possession this holiday season is a SIGNED copy of the new Eraserhead DVD that Rochelle gave me.
 
Games being played:
 
Dipping it old school on the PC with Quake1, Quake2, and OpenGL Doom.
 
In the Xbox: Counterstrike, Max Payne 2, Links 2004
 
In the PS2: SSX Tricky (again)
 
In the GBA: Simcity 2000

Moving.

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Well it’s been nearly a year now since the move to Seattle.  In celebration of surviving a whole year in the MSRC I’m taking a month off work to catch up on some family visiting and video game playing.
 
Speaking of.  I can’t seem to get Counter-Strike out of my Xbox.  Despite also playing tons of Links 2004 and Crimson Skies, Counter-Strike is the best team game for the Xbox since Wolfenstein came out.
 
Since my gaming machine (a Toshiba Satellite laptop with an Nvidia Geforce 440Go in it) has started choking on the more taxing games out there, I’ve been playing more and more Xbox.  In fact I’ve almost gotten to the point that if the game is available on the Xbox, I prefer to play it on that platform.  Xbox Live allows no cheating as opposed to the regular Internet,  and I can always be sure the game is going to run relatively smoothly.  It’s the first time ever I think in my life that a console has taken a +50% share of my gaming time.  In preparation for my brothers coming up I’m even considering buying a second one to go in my theatre room.