I’ve been using a Zacate board for several months now. Zacate Asus For a $120 system where I borrowed ram from another system to get it running, it’s been solid as a linux system. I mostly just used nfs to mount my /home drive and ran the system off a small partition on the hard drive. It’s decent, but it wasn’t great. I recently installed Windows 8 preview on it using up more of the huge hard drive I had in the system.

I really didn’t get much done this month… Other than work. Maybe the Vita is partially to blame. ;) Books: None, not quite done with “Books of Skyrim” Games: 6. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. Pretty standard layton game, but the twist at the end was really good. 7. Final Fantasy 13-2. Great game, but I hate cliffhanger endings… Still a bit to do on this one. Videos: 9. We are the Strange.

This is me attempting to move everything off my various sites onto a single location, so the dates may be a bit weird. Not sure if I’ll keep this one around or not. I’ll try to update the links as I go through, and add more tags.

Books: Just one, 1. Kaspar’s Box. Yet another Chalker book I’m highly disappointed in. At first it felt like I was reading a very interesting book in the vein of The Wizard of Karres. By the end though, the whole thing just fizzles out and crashes into a complete and dull non-ending. Games. Ridiculous numbers of them. 1. Rage. Took a break from Skyrim to plow through this one, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It’s already been an incredibly productive month for games. Rage was the first game I finished a few weeks ago. I was frustrated at Skyrim for being so buggy, so I took a break and plowed through this one. Just about 17 hours from start to finish. The second was Solatorobo. I’ve been working on it for several months. It’s an ideal game for bite sized gaming sessions, usually just a half hour or so before I go to sleep.

Not going to be much of a post for december of 2011… But the year end total? 22 books, 22 games, and 96 video series/movies/etc. Books: Nada. Half-way through Kaspar’s Box though. Games: None. Played a lot of Skyrim, solatorobo, and Bastion, but didn’t finish any of them. Videos: 90. Lost in Space. Interesting update of the original… 91. Outlaw Star. I’m not really happy with this series. I probably would have been if I watched it back when it was on TV though… I’ve gotten tired of some of the anime tropes it uses.

Mostly gift cards this year, but happily $70 of the gift cards were PSN. Picked up Corpse Party for $20, Trine 2 for $15, Assassin’s Creed 2 bundle for $13, and Red Dead Redemption bundle for $25. Also received a copy of Rage, which I’m sure I’ll find entertaining. I ended up passing on the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood $25 bundle, and the Borderlands $15 bundle. I need to see if AC is good first, and I have Borderlands already on Steam.

I shuffled through everything I’ve finished this year and picked out the ones that were the most fun for me. Not counting December of course… but I’m not sure what could change this list at this point. Books: One Day on Mars The Rolling Stones Storm from the Shadows Quantum Connection Mogworld Games: Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Tales of Monkey Island Disgaea 4 Stacking Portal 2 Videos:

Wow, I didn’t have much time for entertainment this month… Books: 22: The Wizard of Karres: a sequel to an old Schmitz book. Written by the Shadow of the Lion folks (Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer) Games: 22: Uncharted 3. Finished this on Hard. Oddly, it’s almost more fun than Uncharted 2. UC2 I quit after finishing once, UC3 I immediately started replaying on Crushing. Videos: 87: Pixar Short Films Collection Vol1.

I just had a thought while I was fiddling with Emusic and looking to download my monthly allotment of music… There’s a ton of bands I listen to where I lose track of them and find myself 1-2 discs behind. Bowling for Soup I missed their 2009 release entirely and only picked it up in 2011. I don’t have time to check up on all of the bands I listen to and see if they’ve released new stuff.