I are fanboy, hear me piss on your shit.

Ah yes, some nice little bits of happiness and joy for me, which i pass on to you:



As one of the innovators who created the first-person shooter genre 15 years ago, Carmack is widely recognized as one of the most talented programmers in the world. Monday evening, he became the first individual game designer to be awarded a technology and engineering Emmy in a ceremony at CES. As the programming whiz kid of id, Carmack did things with 286 processors that no one believed possible.

Carmack has worked with the new game consoles enough to deliver some expert commentary on each.

"The 360 is a fabulous machine to work on," he says. In particular, "graphics programming is a blast. Microsoft has done a great job with all of their developer-support tools." PlayStation 3 has "tons of power," but "is not as easy to develop for.... Sony's not as good at the developer-support part of things as Microsoft is. I know people in the office (who got) PS3 development kits and (said) they're twice as (expensive), but they're half as capable.

"It's not a bad console; it's certainly far better than everything else except maybe the Xbox 360. In an ideal world PlayStation 3 will be more powerful, but for the vast majority of the cases, you'll be able to effectively exploit more power from the 360."

From the article: WIRED News

Hate.

I hate the wind because i can't make it stop touching me.
I hate cables because they never stay uncomplicated.
I hate sunlight because the smoke is never as thick in it.
I hate money because it doesn't really exist.
I hate faithless people because they can't see themselves.
I hate dogs because they're loud.
I hate the slam bars on mall doors because there is no truly graceful way to pass them.
I hate television because it doesn't give any of what it takes.
I hate cigarettes that have no sentimental purpose.
I hate the five dollar rule.
I hate not having a good note to end on.

bleet deet deet deet blee deet deet doop

Ok, brief update for the masses. Perhaps brief. Maybe brief. We'll see.

Xmas went well, gifts exchanged, etc etc. yay.

I got a free Xbox360 from a friend of mine, along with a high definition TV. The 360's DVD drive had died, he bought a new 360, and gave me the "dead" one. Well, its up and running just fine, and all it needs now is a new DVD drive, which costs a mere $50. I already removed the old one and attempted to repair it (however, the drive's laser assembly is fucked up, and not within my resources to fix) so i know how to install the new one. Its actually remarkably simple, quite nearly all i have to do is plug it in and screw it down. Sweet.

The HD TV is also under the weather, but it just needs to be sent in for repairs.

So, pretty sweet.

Anything else? Well, not really. People are the same, life is the same.

The diner still has smoking, which is cool. I happen to enjoy my little sticks of death, and will also enjoy smoking them at that there diner.

and, as always,

FUCK.