This morning we had an early Christmas celebration. Ben got his train table and train set (more trains to come on Christmas morning) as we felt it would be cruel to give it to him Christmas morning when we would be leaving to see family shortly thereafter. The funny thing is that the train table has been sitting in his room under a green blank for a few weeks now. He took to calling it his “green bed”, but never seemed to try and look under the blanket. I think he is definitely enjoying this Christmas so far and this is the first year he has shown interest in the hallmarks of the holidays such as Santa Claus, Rudolph, snow men, etc.
I can’t wait to see how he deals with Christmas Eve/Christmas morning!
Published on
December 15, 2008 in
Gaming.
Wow, seems the Penny Arcade guys really hated Playstation Home. And that was just the post discussing the comic beating on Home. I’ve downloaded it, but thus far haven’t actually started it up. Home is a risky proposition as many will ridicule it regardless of its potential quality and likely few will truly love it. Outside of those camps, the great masses may never use it. Considering all of this, is it truly worth it?
Not sure and I’ll withold judgement until I try it and see how it begins to evolve. I enjoy new social networking opportunities. Only time will tell…
Because we have to chase him. Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we’ll hunt him because he can take it; because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight.
I just finished watching my new Blu-ray of The Dark Knight. I do love this movie and as I twittered earlier, between this, Iron Man, and WALL-E, we’ve had an amazing year for fun, interesting movies. I love the above lines from Commissioner Gordon in the last minutes of the movie. I think they could’ve come off as really cheesy, but Gary Oldman delivers the lines wonderfully.
The Blu-ray is beautiful. Some had commented that the flipping of aspect ratios between the typical film scenes and the IMAX scenes was distracting, but I didn’t notice the transition. When I was looking for it, I could obviously see it occur, but it wasn’t problematic at all. I haven’t dug into the special features or BD Live content yet, but I’m sure I will in the coming days/weeks.
All in all, I’m thrilled to be able to watch this again and in such amazing video quality is a treat.
Published on
December 2, 2008 in
Personal.
Heather has already posted on this so rather than rehash the whole story, I’ll just link to her account:
The only thing I think I would disagree with was that my phone call to her was “frantic”. I actually thought it was calm especially given the fact that I had been in an urgent care for 2-3 hours waiting and then calming a toddler as they drew blood, took x-rays, forced oxygen treatments, etc. I didn’t have the luxury of freaking out as I had to be calm for Ben. Oh well, minor quibble.
He’s doing much better, but he is violently opposing any medicine we try to give him, so the next several days are going to continue to be fun 
I’m just glad he’s doing so much better. Thanks for the kind thoughts!
