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Turns out, unlike my brother, I’m not evil after all.

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This guy is amazing. Check out his (very NSFW) video review of the Heavenly Sword trailer here. It is very funny. Thank you Nord.

Probably no posts for a while. My laptop is unwell and temporarily out of service. Blogging this from my iphone which is not ideal. More info when I can actually type

“Macs are so cool” - a refrain I’ve found myself repeating several times over the last few days. I keep learning new and awesome things about my MacBook Pro. As I mentioned, I bought an iPhone this weekend. I brought it home and activated it. But all my phone numbers were still on my old cell phone. Oh noes!

Bluetooth to the rescue. My brother was over and he promptly loaded up my old phone, connected it to my Mac via Bluetooth and copied all my numbers over to my computer. That is so cool. Address Book was all loaded up with my phone numbers, I plugged in my phone and it synced right up. Yay, I love my Mac.

Then today I was IMing a friend using Adium and my brother asked why I hadn’t changed their names to the real names. I told him it’s because I don’t use this machine for chatting all that often. Then he lead me back to Address Book where, it turns out, if you put people’s IM info in their entries, it’ll immediately update the display names in Adium. Macs are so cool.

There are a million of these small simple convenience features on the Mac that surprise me all the time. I’m never surprised by my Windows machine - well, never pleasantly surprised, that is! There are things I’ll continue to use Windows for, of course. I use it at work, there are still more games for Windows, and I’m just more comfortable with all the ins and outs of the system. But Macs, oh Macs are so pretty. What a pretty pretty machine.

I’m not talking about some bizarre programming thing (see Wikipedia’s entry on foo if you don’t know what I’m talking about, though I thought foo was derived from fubar and Wikipedia says naught on that and hey, who knew snafu was also an awesome acronym? But this is turning into a terribly long digress, let’s return to our scheduled subject matter). I’m talking about Fires of Outland, the new WoW TCG expansion.

I’m still playing the card game quite a lot. And this weekend is the Pre-release event for a new card set. The set doesn’t come out for another two weeks, but we can go play this weekend, get our hands on some cards, and get a unique pre-release only loot card. I’m so geekily excited!

All new cards, all new ways to destroy my friends, what could be better?