come to the conclusion that the reason my friends and I have so much fun playing games together (of the board as well as video variety) is that we are all, at heart, bad people. I mean, is there any greater pleasure in life than watching your closest friend take one (or three, or six) for the team?
But I guess we’re not the only ones. According to Penny Arcade’s Tycho, XBox Live Arcade is launching an online version of Uno. That’s right, Uno:
Games of skill and chance can bring a person’s inner bastard to the fore, but I know of no other game that can turn a person into a complete fucker in the way that Uno does.
Preach on, brother. We—my friends and I—have all turned into horrible people because of Uno. Well, more horrible, at any rate. In addition to adding unlimited draw-four chaining and requiring that you draw sixteen for forgetting to say Uno, we have instituted a Draw Four for Gross Stupidity rule, wherein you can get penalized outside the game for, you guessed it, doing something stupid. And your tally goes into effect at the beginning of the next game. Permit me an evil cackle here: heh heh heh.
At last count, Jieun was in first place for outside of game, er, winnings, most of them for erroneous Draw Four finings. That’s right. You also draw four for incorrectly fining someone else. Neener.
As you may have concluded from my being completely incommunicado (or inburrito, as my friend Eric likes to call it) for a little over two weeks now, I have been swamped, simply swamped, with things not-internet of late: my real work, some freelance web development, and the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival.
I am near the end of my swamped-ness, and am starting to get some more free time to surf, to think, to waste. So you will start, very soon I hope, seeing a bit more of me here, which I know you are all very happy about.
Teasers on what’s to come: SFIAAFF rants and raves, piñatas, writing. Hasta la vista. Baby.
I loved the first two, but I can just tell that X III: The Last Stand will surpass them. That is to say, will be awesome.
Microsoft’s Origami Project a week or so ago. As of a day or two ago, the site officially went live; that is to say, the product was finally unveiled. So what is it? It’s a new mobile device called the Ultra Mobile PC, or UMPC for short. It’s supposed to be a fully functional computer with media capabilities, an all-in-one device for computing, communications and entertainment.
The idea is cool, I’ll give them that (I confess to being intrigued by their new input methodologies, especially the on-screen keyboard). As to how useful it is, I’d have to get my hands on one and try it out to really give a good opinion. Anybody care to send me one? 
my blog for even a day knows that I’m a pretty big fan (and regular reader) of Glenn Reynolds’ InstaPundit blog. Which is why it should come as no surprise that when Reynolds’ new book, An Army of Davids : How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths came out this Tuesday, I got it right away (had, in fact, preordered it).
I’m only about 50 pages into it so far, and, as I expected, it’s fascinating. More later…
Update 07/26/2006 20:15 – I actually finished this book a few weeks after writing this post. The whole was compelling and thought-provoking. Anyone interested in technology and its effects on society should read this book. 4 stars.
I can’t believe Rails doesn’t support this. They need to add functionality to ActiveRecord supporting SQL set and enum types. It’s just stupid that they don’t.
Update 2006/03/09 08:43: Apparently this is a new feature in Rails 1.1, which is to be released very shortly, but I can’t confirm this, since the blog post that was written about the new features in 1.1, which everyone links to, is down.
Blogging has been light for the past few days and will continue to be so for at least a week following this post; I’ve got a lot going on both at and outside of work, and websurfing time has been cut down drastically in recent days. I’ll see you when I see you.
Sorry, Haters when I went to the Toronto International Film Festival last year; specifically, that it was one of the worst movies I’d ever seen. And that Linda Linda Linda, another TIFF selection, was one of the best.
Which is why it makes perfect sense for Sorry, Haters to be picked to go into wide release, while Linda3 hasn’t.
It just goes to show that Hollywood’s marketing machine is really in touch with movie fans, that it has its finger on the pulse of moviegoing America. That, in fact, it would know a good movie if one bit it on the ass.
たく。Bunch of geniuses they’ve got over there. (Thanks to Matt for the link.)
Today’s Penny Arcade comic reminds me, in its inimitable style, of what it was like when I first used the dark side of the Force…I mean, switched to Macs from PCs.
I switched about 4 or 5 years ago, and I haven’t looked back since. Nowadays, as Tycho says in his accompanying post, I use my Macs for everything, and only break out the PC when I have to.
The Intel chip is what seems to be doing it for the recent wave of convertees, but for me it was the release of OS X. The ease of use and aesthetic design of Macintosh, and the power and flexibility of Unix: as far as I’m concerned, the dream team of the OS world. Really, there’s nothing that comes close.