Full disclosure: I have a huge crush on Felicia Day. She is like, so awesome. :D
I don't generally like to talk about work here, but the last few days have been pretty extreme. I spent two days up in Northbrook putting together our new machine, and it was fraught with danger and peril at every turn. And by danger and peril, I mean late packages and soldering power connectors. But the machine is up and running and happy, so I'm happy.
Apple's Insomnia Film Festival site was apparently so terribly loaded that they postponed the contest until "after the holidays." I can't imagine how a company as big as Apple has could have fucked that up so badly, but by golly, they did. So last weekend James came down from Rockford anyway and we shot some footage for a new VFS. James wrote a really great skit that I think everyone will enjoy.
I've decided that in between all the fun over at the Dominion of Awesome, I could put up some actual educational content at the College. I made a simple creative writing utility called Write Stuff that gives you three random words and asks you to write something using them. I've slotted that into a new Literature Department. I've also created a Department of Practical Computation for fun computer things that currently houses only an empty blog. Erickson is also in on that one, so look forward to some hardcore geeking out.
And our dryer is broken again. :/