those of you who've hung out with me at any time in the past month and a half have probably grown completely sick of me waxing poetic about halo. i had the opportunity to beta-test the macintosh version of it, and since it just recently shipped, i'm guessing it's okay to blab about how wonderful it is here. did i mention that i liked it? yeah. oooh yeah. for the first time in a few years, i feel an overwhelming need to upgrade my computer to play a game better. it's a good feeling, in a sick kind of way. now, is the radeon 9800 the way to go or the G4/1.47GHz board the way to go? the long and the short of it is, it's real nice to be immersed in the marathon universe again...
in other news, in between helping out with the beta test effort and writing my novel, i've actually revisited my program outpost. it's been seriously fixed to make it look less horrible in panther, and oh, as a bonus, it also is many times faster. i've spent the past 10 or so hours of work on it attempting to get syntax highlighting to work, and i've finally made some process with that, but it's way not done yet.
finally, i've been using my powerbook to teach stuff at work again, and the reaction of the people in the classes to the first time i used expose to switch from pro/e to powerpoint was pretty damn funny.
frog blast the vent core...
blah blah blah Halo blah blah blah
TRAITOR!
blah blah blah Expose blah blah blah
If you really want to piss them off, hold down the shift key while you do it. Trevor from my Japanese class fell out of his seat for that.
oh, horsepucky. if your read their web pages, it's pretty clear that bungie is still bungie. after all, they still do things like describing halo 2 as 'like halo 1 on fire going 100mph through a hospital zone being chased by helicopters and ninjas, and the ninjas are on fire too'. besides, it's not like i don't already own a legal copy of office v.x anyway. windows shit is the evil part of microsoft. it just happens to be the big part.