It's been awhile since I've posted about stuff not related to OpenID, so I figured it would be good to share some things from the past few weeks I've really enjoyed!

World of Goo - I first played this game on a Wii at my friend's house a few months ago and it's incredibly awesome. Such a simple idea of building structures out of "Goo Balls" with a bit of physics included so if you're structure sucks then your Goo Balls will topple over. The Mac Heist Bundle includes it for OS X, so now I'm addicted again on my laptop.

Amazon Kindle - I bought a new Kindle (I didn't have one of the original ones) a few days before I went on vacation in Belize about a month ago. It's really easy to read and being able to make the font small to fit more on a page during the day and then a few sizes larger at night is a huge help. Made it through The Shadow Factory while in Belize which is about the NSA directly leading up to and then after 9/11. Right now I'm working my way through Freakonomics. Most books for the Kindle seem to cost about $10.

Custom Google Maps - FedEx was supposed to deliver 180 Moleskin notebooks to me via next day air this week and blew it. So I played with custom maps on Google for the first time and came up with a way to visually show why FedEx sucks! Wouldn't a live Google Map showing the plane in flight or truck carrying your package be a much better way to track packages than the normal tracking pages?

Airport Mania - I twittered about this iPhone game last week, but it's been a huge time suck! On each level you control planes landing, dropping off passengers, being repaired, refueling, waiting, picking up passengers and taking off. All of this with bonus point optimizations for using the same runway for multiple landings in the row or the same gate for a few planes of the same color in a row.

Doña Paula Malbec 2007 - Picked up this wine randomly from Whole Foods for $14.99 ($11.99 at K&L) and really enjoyed it. Great flavor, not expensive and whitaker, mart and deflatermouse liked it too!

Went to the Maker Faire this morning with brad and crucially. Six Apart had a booth there put together by the awesome ljkrissy. People were playing SegWay polo which was pretty dope and we hung out with Jacob Applebaum (ioerror) for a bit. The sixaphone was there, though rebranded as the makerphone. All in all fun times were had!

Played a few hours of Guitar Hero with revmischa last night that helped take my mind off of other stuff. Life has been exhausting, rewarding, stressful, and tiresome this past week so a good weekend of not doing anything has been nice thus far.

Was at Best Buy last night and decided it was time to buy some games since I hadn't in a long time. Downloaded games at school last year, but was tired of playing those. So ended up buying Silent Hunter, Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition, and Sims 2. Been looking for a good submarine simulator for a while and this one looks pretty decent. Got stuck on one of the tutorials (exams) last night, but should get through them tonight. Also need to catch up on TV on my Replay, looked at it today and there is a bunch of stuff piling up. Guess that is a good thing since it means I'm doing other things than just watching TV. Still, they are shows I want to watch. Real issue is there are shows I want to watch on at the same time. Don't think it is worth buying a second replay, that would be sort of lame, then again building a Myth TV box with multiple tuners in it is expensive and still sounds like it is a pain to get working.

xb95 sent me a 14 day free trial to Eve Online so when I got home last night, downloaded it. Took a while, but got it installed. Played a little and then went out to a bar with the roommates not too far from here. We hung out there for a while and then they took off to meetup with some other friends at a place that would card. I walked back and played some more Eve. Not far enough into it yet to really know what I think, need to play it more tonight. Slept all day! :)