06.20.06
Power of Observation
So I was arguing having an animated and vociferous conversation with the sibling unit last night, and it came up that she had recently become hooked by NCIS. My dear, darling little sister, who can’t really stand blood and gore, loves the adventures of Jethro and his wonderful band of ‘THESE are Naval officers?’. She’s particularly entranced by Abby, though I can’t say I blame her. ahem I asked her how she’s been watching, since I know she is usually doing other things at 8pm on Tuesday nights, and she said, “I’ve been buying them with the iTunes cards you give me.”
Wha? The last I’d heard, CBS was the only network steadfastly refusing to sell their hit shows on iTMS. But that was four or five months ago, which is basically an ice age for technology. Sure enough, I pulled up the Store and went down to Video, and there they were. But not just NCIS, no sirree. This glorious yellow bit road to bankruptcy is made of CSI, CSI New York, and Numbers (I refuse to put the stupid l33t-sp34k digits into the title). And while it’s not one I watch, I know that the rest of the forums would be interested to note that CSI Miami is on there.
Now, not all of the episodes for each series– or even all of the seasons– have been made available. I wanted my sis to see the NCIS episode where Tony gives the immortal line, “He did an episode of Trading Spaces with Satan.” But it was not to be found, leading me to believe that either they haven’t finished making them available, or some episodes are still going to be DVD-exclusive. Which, y’know, defeats the purpose of making them available on iTMS. But for my part, I’m thrilled. And my wallet cries in despair, knowing only the torment of being stretched even further beyond its limit.
Or something equally Goth that Abby would like. ANYWAY.
Much to do today. I’m probably going to start working on cross-development of the game system soon; I want to concentrate my work on one section at a time, but for right now my attention is split between three parts (mapping/collision detection, graphics engine, and event processing). Those are the three major pieces I need to get any general game functioning; I suppose depending on how development goes this week I can actually have something to show off next weekend.
Incidentally, the NetBeans IDE rocks heavily, steadily, and mightily. I can’t believe it’s the ‘base’, ‘free’ IDE for Java.