Today, as I was absentmindedly taking the garbage cans to the curb for tomorrow’s pickup, I was suddenly and unexpectedly greeted by what looked to be a relatively large pit bull terrier rapidly trotting toward me. By the time I’d turned around from tending to the can, he was already upon me and I hardly had time to react. I remember seeing the dog, realizing how close he was to me, freezing in place and blurting out the first thing that came to mind.
“Hi.”
During Apple’s annual media briefing yesterday, Steve Jobs proudly proclaimed that Apple has produced their strongest lineup of iPods in their storied history before, during and after showing off the fruits of their engineering labor in the form of the newly updated iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch. While I haven’t had the chance to play with the new iPods like tech writers over in California yesterday, I have a number of initial impressions of the new iPod devices that I would like to share with you now.
The summer is typically a time for Hollywood to dump its least intellectually stimulating but usually visually impressive movies into theatres nationwide in an effort to cash in on a largely ignorant populace that is all too eager to part with their hard earned money. Thankfully, Inception is not one of these films. While this film specializes in being visually stunning and thoroughly engaging on a visceral level, it also functions quite well as a “smart” film, one that requires a little more thinking than the average brainless action movie that’s so common in mainstream cinema.
Editor’s Note: Halo 2 was released on the Xbox on November 9, 2004. Thus, I will be treating this review as if I am reviewing it in 2004. All comments are made in regards to the standards of that time period, as I don’t believe it is fair to review an older game in comparison to the standards of today unless I am doing so in retrospect.
Halo: Combat Evolved for the Xbox is one of the greatest First Person Shooters ever created and is perhaps the best launch title a system could ever hope to receive this side of Super Mario 64. Many believe that without this one game, the Xbox brand would not exist as it does today. It demonstrated that the First Person Shooter genre could be done, incredibly well at that, on consoles. College dormitories and apartments across the nation were host to countless Halo LAN parties because Halo is, without question, one of the best multiplayer experiences you’ll find on a console even after all this time. That alone is quite an impressive pedigree to live up to. While Halo 2 isn’t without its faults and does fall short in some areas, there’s no doubt that this is an excellent sequel.
Recently, I’ve redeveloped an interest in photography, particularly of the digital variety. Armed with my trusty point-and-shoot camera, I’ve been taking pictures of whatever happens to strike my fancy at any particular time. It could be flowers in my backyard, my iPod Touch, cars at the Detroit Auto Show, a new pair of IEMs and so on. Whatever it was, I came up with reasons to take pictures of it, even if I didn’t have a plan to do anything with the pictures once I took them. Now, I’m going to share with you a brief history of my love of digital photography.
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