KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!.

It looks like Vlad has resurrected his weblog. Happy day!

Coming to California is fun (although the trip home is always exhausting). I get some valuable face-time with folks at HQ, which is always good, and just being at the office really creates a feeling of being part of something, rather than just being a remote satellite person. So it’s all good, especially since I get to see my friends nym (sans blog), pavlov, and vlad.

Extra bonus this trip is that I got to see my other friends phik, blizzard, and zab. A good time was had by all.

In a somewhat random moment, I managed to hit an Apple store this afternoon. I wasn’t expecting to make it to one this time, but blizz and zab and I were looking for somewhere to have a quick bite, and lo, there was one right there. I picked up copies of Diablo II, NWN, Dungeon Siege, and iWork. Hooray! Lots of geeky-good RPGs for the lappy, and a nice new word processor as a bonus (I have yet to need presentation software, but I guess it’s good to have anyhow). I will post reviews of all of these sometime after I’ve had a chance to play with them a bit. I’m pretty excited about Diablo II being Mac-friendly now. So much silly fun to be had!

Off home tomorrow (it takes basically all day to get from here to there, what with the time change and stuff). If I’ve got my wits about me, I’ll remember to hit the Duty Free at the airport before I head back across the border (which means Chicago, I guess). For now, a sedate evening at this strange little hotel.

Good times.

I’m not making this up, it’s a real article from Time: A Papal Succession Primer.

The Pope, it is now known, passed away today. I’m non-religious, but I do have a great deal of respect for people who can and do devote their lives to their religion.

I’m linking to this article because I had no idea what the procedure was for picking a new Pope. It’s not nearly as cool as picking a new Dalai Lama, but hopefully the world won’t have to worry about that one for a while.

Looks like Matthew Good brought his weblog back. It was sort of gone for a while, but now it’s back. I like Matt’s music. He also gets angry about things that people should generally get angry about. Also, he looks like Gordon Freeman.