The Gibson Dark Fire looks pretty incredible… but seriously I can’t find a single sound demo of the guitar. Kinda fishy for a guitar than is supposed to be able to sound like any guitar. And it’s around $3500 for a pre-order. So far all I’ve seen are some unbelievable claims and some fancy lights.
- Belgium Prix is on Sunday, and I’m hoping for a strong McLaren showing. Rain seems likely so that should make the race really unpredictable.
- Spore: it’s finally launching on Sunday. I worry that my slightly old PC won’t be up to the task of running it well. Will Wright’s games have always been creative, but have never been programmed in such a way that makes them run well on most machines. Blizzard on the other hand has always done a great job of writing amazing code, but that’s neither here nor there.
- iRacing.com: It’s a little unusual to do a subscription racing game, but with the Papyrus cred, I’m willing to give it a try. Some of the things I’ve read on rec.autos.simulators are indicative of non-pay services (asshats overdriving and causing incidents). I would have hoped a subscription service would get rid of those people.
- Madden 09: I’ve been wanting to play against my friend in LA but it’s been surprisingly difficult. Once you accept an invite it just says the game no longer exists. We think it’s a firewalling issue, which is retarded. Shouldn’t the damn thing just work? So we’ll be trying to debug that this weekend.
Oh yeah, last weekend we walked 8 miles out to the salt ponds of the bay. It was completely unplanned, just decided we’d go out the door and go for a walk. It was awesome. “There and back again…” as they say.
I’m happy to report that I’m now in the iPhone Developer Program. It almost doesn’t sting to pay $99+tax to write software for my iPhone. It’s an odd situation, basically since I applied as an individual, I have only 1 developer certificate that is tied to me, but I can have 100 devices using this key. I have been amazed at the iPhone when playing Super Monkey Ball, the platform is really far more powerful than I had imagined so I’m looking forward to getting going. It’s also nice now I can actually play with the OpenGL-ES demos and I can stop sorting through Open Toolchain docs.
Sadly, Yahoo Mail’s spam protection is now a joke and I’ve got to set up something else for this blog’s publicly listed email. I’ve got 2 accounts that pre-date GMail that I have used at one time as a primary and secondary mail accounts and now both are unusable. One account just dumps nearly everything into the spam box. If you haven’t gotten a response when you mail mr.donut at yahoo, it’s because of the overzealous rules they are using. My other account on the other hand has the opposite problem and gets a ridiculous amount of spam. Yahoo Mail seems unable to detect even the most obvious spam emails.
This is just pathetic. Give me a moment while I set up a mail account for this site using GMail.
Yeah, you said it man. That’s exactly it, I swear I do get why people use Twitter, but I just can’t use it and Tycho has explained why better than I could.