Renegade Folk Hero

Last Saturday night Judy helped me install Windows XP on my Boot Camp’d MacBook Pro. I know; I still feel dirty. All sacrilege aside, everything turned out okay with only minor confusion on my part (noob) about the WinXP install process.

Admittedly, I’ve only set up the dual boot to play games.

Already installed are Warcraft III/TFT (because Rosetta’d WC3 blows and I need my DotA fix) and Fallout (because Judy wanted me to try it, then she wanted me off her computer so she could play). Since I’m not all that big into games, I’ll probably just stick to the mainstream titles for the time being. Most notably Half Life 2 since Judy wants to play it too.

For those of you curious about how it runs, I have one word for you: Godly. All the good reviews about Intel’s Core Duo have not been overstated. Running Mac OS X 2-4x (yes, actually and perceptibly) faster than my iMac G5 wasn’t all that surprising. But cruising around WinXP 2-3x faster than my 3.6GHz P4 at work is just… nice. And even if it’s not that much of a stress test, playing TFT DotA is a joy. All graphics settings on max, full screen AA, 4x Ansio, etc, 60fps (vsync) with bandwidth to spare. Sweet. This Radeon X1600m ain’t too shabby.

If anyone has any recommendations for some must-have main stream games (No FPS they make me vomit, no MMO’s, don’t recommend stuff that’s available on the Mac), drop me a line.

So I’m sitting here minding my own business debugging new MyStuff code when I start getting exceptions thrown in the image saving feature. I break open the debugger and trace it to one of the links on my home page (which I use to debug with) and find that I’m getting 403’s on one of the images. (Now, since I stupidly stayed up until like 3am Sunday night playing Fallout (of all things) with Judy, I’m lacking somewhat in the objective judgement department.) The URL points to an image linking to Tatsuya Ishida’s Sinfest comic strip. Now, unbeknownst to me, Mr. Ishida has been secretly plotting to change up his web site for the sole purpose of ruining my Monday morning bug testing. So, when I see “http://sinfest.net/sinfestlink3.gif” in my console pointing to a 403 when I can obviously see that it was there not 10 seconds ago I recklessly and immediately assume that there is a bug in the URL handler because the exception spits out “http://www.sinfest.net/sinfestlink3.gif”. Chaos ensues as I spiral into a bug-tracking death-spin of non-existant buggy death. Damn you Ishida! Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *ahem*

Anyways…

It looks like Tatsuya finally got around to redesigning his website (and starting his own publishing co?). *grtz*. May he finally get back to producing his awesome comics.

P.S.: Tatsuya, if you don’t give me a new link badge I’m going to hunt you down and vivisect your pancreas.
P.P.S.: Btw, I’m sorry for stealing your “Renegade Folk Hero” line.
P.P.P.S: No I’m not. (#1 biotch!)