There was a fire at a substation by Willows, which is one of the major Microsoft buildings. At around 12:30, right before we normally go to lunch, my building lost power for a second. Also, there was this annoying alarm thing making a constant whine at my building's front entrance all day, I guess because something or other lost power. That was ( Read more... )

Man, Tassa's away on her vacation, so of course I end up all alone because Dave has to work late, and Anna is who knows where... When I'm all alone, I tend to find out weird stuff on the internet ( Read more... )

Last weekend, we went over to Katy's as a sort of pre-birthday celebration. We went to see Thor, which was actually fairly good, way more enjoyable than any of us expected it to be. We credit the fact that JMS was one of the writers. Then we got dinner and hung out at Katy's and ended up watching a documentary called This Film is Not Yet Rated, ( Read more... )

( I discovered a funny bug while playing Oblivion again. )

Dave, Anna, and I started watching this anime called Cross Game. It's free on Hulu and totally great, so no excuses for not watching it! It's a romantic baseball shounen anime, and it's written by the same guy who wrote Touch, another quite similar baseball anime. Except he's had 20 years to make it betterrrrr! But yes! It's super cuuuuute ( Read more... )

Dave and I just blew through all of Toradora this week. It's a 25 episode anime series that's one of those high school romantic comedies. The first half was great because it was pretty whacky, second half was still good, but not as whacky... until the second half of the last friggin episode. Then one of the main characters drops acid and hijacks ( Read more... )

Dave just got me a new laptop as an "early birthday present." I totally accept this since I'd rather him do the computer research. I'd been holding off getting a new one for a while since Sai's harddisk died, waiting until there's some new game that I want to play. Well, Dragon Age 2 is coming out March 8th, and so... yeah. This laptop's ( Read more... )

Microsoft is sniffing Google result clicks so that they can make Bing return the same stuff.

A.K.A. Bing: The Better Way to Google.

I just have no words for this.

I know everyone's been curious as to what I've been working on, but it hadn't been announced yet, so I couldn't tell them what it was. BUT NOW ITS ANNOUNCED!

About 10 minutes ago, Steve Ballmer himself announced Avatar Kinect during his keynote for CES 2011.

The first news item I found on the internet.I'll be posting links to the sure to come ( Read more... )

So 2011 is an unusual year for me in the number of games I'm already looking forward to coming out ( Read more... )