{"id":1463,"date":"2007-05-01T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2007-05-01T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T11:30:08","slug":"expensive-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1463","title":{"rendered":"Expensive weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After MIT5 wrapped on Sunday, I headed over to the CambridgeSide Galleria for a little THESIS work, and wound up spending a huge chunk of my Federal refund check.<br \/>\nFirst I caved and bought the upgrade to Adobe CS3, which seems pretty dang cool from what limited amount of time I&#8217;ve spent with it so far, although the first thing I did when I got it installed was <a title=\"Louie Mantia \u00e2\u20ac\u00ba Icons \u00e2\u20ac\u00ba Creative Suite\" href=\"http:\/\/louiemantia.com\/icon\/creativesuite.html\">replace the crappy icons<\/a>.  Much better.  I&#8217;ve got three or so C3 papers to lay out after the THESIS fog dissipates, so I&#8217;m looking forward to playing around with them a bit.<br \/>\nSecond, I was wandering past the temporarily-relocated Gamestop in the mall (or maybe it was an EBGames; six of one, half-dozen of the other anyway) when lo and behold there was a sign on the window: &#8220;WIIS IN STOCK TODAY!&#8221;  Hey, if I&#8217;m going to be doing research into stories in games next, I gotta have the hardware, right?  Besides, it looks like Ivan&#8217;s taking off for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigspaceship.com\">other pastures<\/a> and he&#8217;ll be taking his Wii with him, and I <i>still<\/i> haven&#8217;t gotten to play <i>Super Paper Mario<\/i> <b>or<\/b> <i>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/i> yet.  This is a scenario that will be rectified as soon as the THESIS is out of the way, I assure you.<br \/>\nSo, yes.  A Wii for me, and better tools with which to do my design work.  Life is good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After MIT5 wrapped on Sunday, I headed over to the CambridgeSide Galleria for a little THESIS work, and wound up spending a huge chunk of my Federal refund check. First I caved and bought the upgrade to Adobe CS3, which seems pretty dang cool from what limited amount of time I&#8217;ve spent with it so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-nB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}