It Was A Bullet

Tycho says:

More than anything else, I think it was installing Vista that made me hate PC gaming. The constant, system-level interruptions, the impaired compatibility, and most of all the savage kick to my framerate's exposed groin made me wonder what precisely in the fucking fuck I was doing screwing around with this onyx monolith. I knew I was just going to have to upgrade eventually (no), and I wanted to see if there was anything to this DirectX 10 thing (no), and I wanted to see what the Windows version of Live was like (a warcrime) so I bit the bullet. I shouldn't have. It was a bullet! That should have been my first clue.

Is this Microsoft's secret strategy with Vista?  To make everyone by an Xbox because they're sucking the life out of the PC ecosystem?  It hadn't yet occurred to me that Vista was supposed to be bad.

Looks like I'll be going to PyCon after all

Ying and I had been planning to have our wedding on the 11th anniversary of our first date: on march 15th, 2008.  I've told a few people about our plans, although invitations haven't gone out yet.

However, we're going to have to delay our plans.  In addition to the usual logistical issues and scheduling conflicts, one thing we didn't count on was that planners tend to be exceptionally busy during the holiday season and couldn't really return our calls.

I'll let you all know as soon as I can when the new date is, but we don't want to set one until we're sure that we can actually make sure the plans will happen on time.  I appreciate all the offers of help — and believe me, we will call all of you with favors when the time comes — but we can't really wait any faster, no matter how much help we have ;).