Testing software on drunks

Hey there. Back after a stint in LA. It was gorgeous; an autumn heatwave rolled in, and it was 82 degrees poolside by 10 AM. This made all the Christmas decorations seem all the more out of place - it's bad enough Minnesotans have to start seeing "THE SEASON" and "JOY" and all the other words they roll out to announce the start of non-secular consumer-goods-exchange time before Thanksgiving, but to see palm trees wrapped with lights while you're sweating inside a car with the AC cranked really disassociates you from the iconic Christmas imagery. We're lucky. We have evergreens. We have snow. We have the real thing. In California, it's just dressing on an empty stage.

TECH A drunk woman tries to operate Windows 8. If you can say "recalcitrant labyrinth" after several shots of tequila, you're a pro. Not embedded because she swears, and we have rules about these things. It's not entirely fair, for a few reasons:

1.She is drunk, you know

2.Whether or not an inebriate can figure out the UI isn't a useful metric, unless you believe that everything should be dumbed down to pretty pictures and captions you stab with your finger and hope you hit the right icon.

VIDEO DU JOUR At first, you think: what a jerk. And then you think: brilliant. Then you're back to jerk.

The objection seems to be people having public cellphone conversations. Which we all do. And that's fine. We need to make those calls. It's just annoying when other people think they need to make a call.

MEIN LEIBEN!: Yes: a Wolfenstein movie is en route! It could be as good as "Doom"! Oh. Right. Hmm. AV Club says:

That's from the Hollywood Reporter, which also notes:

Let us revisit once more the progression of video games, as seen through various Wolfenstein games. 1981:

The breakthrough iD games version, which knocked everyone out, and paved the way for Doom to redefine how we saw games, as well as the way they were marketed (they gave away the first batch of levels, knowing that everyone who played - and I mean everyone - would buy the game):

The most recent version:

And it's already been eclipsed by CoD, which will be bested by Halo 4. Glory days indeed.