So. Hillary takes CA. I suppose I’m not all that surprised, but honestly, I’m a little disappointed. While I think Hillary will, if she’s nominated, be a fine candidate, I’ve always found her to be a bit too much of an opportunist. Though it’s by no means anywhere on the scale of “important issues,” anyone who takes the stage with Jack Thompson loses substantial points with me. Not because videogames, in the grand scheme of things, matter as much as something like Iraq, but because it shows that she’ll take a firm stand on something despite being completely ill-informed or ignorant on a subject.
That said, either candidate is such a vast, vast step up from the entire Republican field (and the current administration) that I will happily, happily vote for either of them. I’m actually really looking forward to the Republican nominee getting utterly obliterated. I hope it’ll be a crushing, humiliating, ignominious defeat. I hope McCain, if nominated, is completely undone by his obsequiousness to the current administration. Feh. Screw all of ’em.
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In other news, Ei-Nyung and I are going to the Permit Office on Thursday to get a permit for the kitchen! Exciting. Also exciting, though in a more “abject terror” sort of way, is the fact that I have no idea what the current state of the house permits are, because I have no idea what state Mike Mohsini left the other renovation permits in. It’s been something that’s been weighing on me for the last couple weeks. I wish I could ignore it – I just want nothing to do, ever, with that guy, or anything he’s ever done or will do, again. So, hopefully it won’t be too bad. I guess we’ll find out Thursday.
*sigh*
Still, progress on the kitchen front is good!
At work, things are going alright. Today was a bit contentious. Part of the issue is that we’re doing a lot of re-evaluation of the game’s core with a really stripped down team. This means I’m not working with *designers* on the design, I’m working with artists and engineers, some of which don’t have any design experience. So, I’m trying to listen to them and take their input, but there are also some aspects of the process where I want to just say, “Okay, enough. I’ve got the experience and judgement to make the call.”
Still, it’s good to get a taste of my own medicine. I’m usually the skeptic, or the one who’s critical. This time, other people are critical of me. It’s fine, I can take it, and hopefully in the end, the game improves as a result. The process can be tiring and frustrating, though.
Looking at picking up Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles for the DS, but I haven’t been able to find a review anywhere, and from what I hear, Ubisoft embargoes reviews that aren’t stellar until after the game’s release date. Which means no news is bad news. We’ll see, I suppose. If it’s not great, it’s probably a good thing. Professor Layton and the Curious Village comes out Sunday, as well, and that’s probably even more up my alley.
Spent this evening watching TV. Still a bit under the weather from a cold that kept me home Monday. I wish I could get up the will to go paint the Mini, but it’s damned cold in the garage, and painting’s sort of a pain in the cramped quarters of the garage. When I was doing this over the summer, I’d open up the garage door – makes a world of difference. Ah, well – I suppose it’ll wait ’till the Spring.
Roofers might come tomorrow, too. Pretty strange.
Yeah, this post is really disjointed. I also started reading The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. We saw the movie over the weekend, and it’s really, really good. The first time I saw it, I was disturbed by how weak the end of the movie was, but I think I “get it” now. The structure of the movie is astonishingly well realized, and the actors do a really spectacular job of developing some really complex characters. There’s at least four or five interesting parallels in the movie, and one of the tricks the movie’s able to pull is how direct, how straightforward those parallels are, but how complex and nebulous they appear to be. Great stuff – I’d highly recommend it. Though most reviewers seem to think of it as merely “entertaining,” or a diversion, I think it’s a really interesting depiction of what obsession means to a person obsessed.
And it’s got a really cool, vaguely steampunk aesthetic, plus tricks!
Right. I’m really out of it. Good night.