Last friday marked Sophia and I's¹ six-month anniversary! This was the event I was saving that champagne for.

To celebrate, we went to Marché ( ²) in Menlo Park, which was a wonderful experience. The food was excellent and the service was superb---I highly recommend it if you are looking for a restaurant in the three star category.

Busy weekend. Saturday, Sophia and I went to BFD, and saw Yellowcard, Franz Ferdinand, H.I.M., as well as a bunch of other bands. We danced and ate overpriced junkfood. Overall, an enjoyable experience. Slight sunburn, but nothing too bad.

Battlestar Galactica. Absolutely. Must watch. Ron Moore is my hero.

Have a nice day.

Sophia and I went to go see the movie Good Night, and Good Luck on Friday night. and it was brilliant.

It is a historical film directed by George Clooney about Broadcast journalist Edward Murrow going up against Senator Joseph McCarthy. This is a truly timeless piece that has many themes which resonate today as loudly as ever.

I highly recommend it.

When Apple announced that they were going to be selling TV shows on the iTunes Music Store, I immediately thought: "Wow, I really wish they would put the new Battlestar Galactica on there..." Problem Solved.

Unfortunately, the episodes appear to have a 4:3 aspect ratio rather than the original 16:9.

I never really got into the animated series called Æon Flux. However, the movie seemed vaguely interesting, so yesterday I went to go see it---not really expecting to be very impressed. However, I found it to be throughly enjoyable.

The most distracting part of the movie for me was actually shown in the preview, the whole sharp grass thing. The rest of the movie makes up for it in my opinion. It is certainly not a movie that everyone will enjoy, but nonetheless I recommend it. Plus Charlize Theron is hot. Rawr.

In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, Microsoft appears to have hit it out of the ballpark with XBox 360. Not bad for only their second try. Sony has a lot of catching up to do, as Microsoft has set the bar pretty high.

From XBox Live, to media-center integration, to HDTV support, the XBox seems to have gotten it all right. My only gripe is that the media center stuff only works with a windows PC. Bummer. I guess that means my MythTV box still has some use.

Blaze of Glory is a Mech Battle Simulator for the PlayStation video game console platform. It has been developed by Robert Quattlebaum and Dusty Thomas over 6 months using the Net Yaroze PlayStation Development Kit. Robert provided the necessary programming skills while Dusty provided artwork and contributed greatly to the game design. While the game was no where near being finished when work stopped on it in the summer of 1999, it was playable since the two-month development mark. The source code alone is nearly half a meg.