The Insomniac Coder

The funniest part about this comic is that I was the one that basically spent Sunday avoiding The Game. Alex Esoterica thought that was hilarious, so instead of sending me game updates every 30 seconds he sent me a running commentary of everything NOT involving The Game itself. My geek forcefield consisted of: Top Gear UK (incredible as usual) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (loved it) The Girl That Played With Fire Troubleshooting why Netflix kept choking while streaming The Girl That Played With Fire Testing to see if turning Aero on or off made a difference with the Netflix performance issue Testing to see if there was a difference in the Netflix performance across browsers and with Windows Media Center Tweaking Dropbox and iDrive so certain backups wouldn't spike CPU usage at weird times (like for example, when trying to watch a fucking movie on Netflix). Some minor grinding in Oblivion, which is sort of my methadone to try to shake off the Fallout: New Vegas ad...

Amazon is usually good enough about their "are you interested ..." emails as to make them creepy, but I was more than a little pleased to see them screw it up at least once: Out of 8 games suggested, 3 had been already sold back to Amazon through their trade-in program. The fourth game that I highlighted was purchased from Amazon under the same account that received the email. Two of the highlighted games had been originally purchased through the same account that received the email. A "civilian" would go "well, how the hell are they supposed to account for THAT" but this being Amazon, I am sure that it is possible for them to add purchased and traded items as exclusion criteria to the queries used to mine for our emails. I am 49% sure that everyone received the same list of games, but these being so popular maybe it would had been a better idea to refine the criteria a bit more.