This book is not the best book, but it’s an OK book. A year ago I entered about half of it on the Lists of Bests site. I’d like to finish that up. It’ll take an hour sometime.

The job hunt is going quite well. I had a face to face interview Thursday, which I feel optimistic about; I also had a good phone interview today, and will be hearing back from them on Monday. Plus a couple more phone interviews next week. Plus maybe an interview in California. So I couldn’t feel too much better about my progress so far, although there’s obviously a ways to go.

Ran Naxx tonight; Abbi got Abomination Shoulderblades and the Amulet of Autopsy. Both are raid items, so I’ve defacto got best in slot for neck and shoulders covered. This also means I don’t need to spend badges on the Chained Military Gorget, which accordingly means I’ll be able to pick up the Waistguard of Living Iron soonish. I should make progress on tasks that don’t involve Abbi this weekend, perhaps.

Fairly self-explanatory. My resume is here (original) (HTML) and here (PDF).

My wee little gnome tank is fun to play, but I’m quite happy not raiding. So the logical thing to do is to optimize her gear such that she can contribute well on raids. I’m fairly sure she could OT Naxxramas, since she’s OT’d Sartharion already, but I dislike making healers sad. So better gear is in order.

Soderbergh’s thinking about a movie (original) based on Moneyball. That is even goofier than making a movie based on Candy Land. I’m all in. Seriously, Soderbergh’s intellectual approach makes him a perfect fit.

Abbi got Heros’ Dreadnaught Handguards and the Titanium Earthguard Ring today. That’s best in slot pre-raid for the hands, and probably best in slot pre-raid for one ring slot. The Kirin Tor exalted gloves are good but I want the two piece T7 bonus. Haven’t done the full target list yet; should do that at some point.

I saw The Savages for the Oscar task; not bad, not great. I have no objections at all to Laura Linney’s performance, and I sort of assume Phillip Seymour Hoffman would have gotten the nomination for this if he hadn’t been nominated for Charlie Wilson’s War. My review is here.

Several days late, but here we go. My 1001 days started on 2/1/2009, and will end on 10/20/2001. For more details, see my launch page.

Some tasks are geekier than others. Right now, the BSD ports collection is not getting updated properly on my server. This has been a small nagging issue that doesn’t actually hurt anything for a couple of years; might as well get it fixed.