Writing off 2007

OK, I decided to change focus a little bit, I'm going to try and make updates more frequent, but they will be tons shorter. Sort of an expanded twitter. They can be about anything, updates in life to code snippets just so I can keep track of where I am at, maybe even just a quote I happen to find interesting. So, where to begin? How about now that 2007 is over and I have absorbed just about everything I think I want too, some stuff I enjoyed

Games
3 of them take the cake

• Halo 3 - do I even need to explain this one?
  
• BioShock - amazing, deep story, with great gameplay that pulled the whole thing together, and an amazing theme (Choice vs. Free Will). Could not possibly say enough good things about this one.
  
• Portal - Short, but had a great story, humor, and game play. Looks like a shooter but is probably one of the best puzzle games I have ever played. An original throughout, here's hoping more developers get on the page of the team Valve put together for this one.

Runners-up: Super Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty 4

Movies

• No Country For Old Men - amazing thru and thru. It really conveys 'the west' too, Chigurh is the stuff nightmares are made of
• Juno - It's pretty much impossible not to love this movie, unless you're a soulless robot or something.
• There Will be Blood - The definition of brutal. And not a stupid 'Saw' way, in a way that really digs down deep.
• Transformers - yeah, it's my childhood re-packaged and re-sold to me, but I don't care, GIANT ROBOTS
  

Bitter disappointments: Spider-Man 3 beats out all. I tried to convince myself I liked it, but I just couldn't do it.