Gone Digital: WoW : MoP

It feels a little strange that the latest World of Warcraft expansion (Mists of Pandaria) came out today and not having bought it. As much as I would like to try out the monk class and explore the new lands, I don't see myself going back to WoW.

With Class: Scala No More

Unfortunately, due to lack of time and a misunderstanding of the purpose of the class, I have dropped the Scala class. I knew when I signed up for these various classes that I may run into the time issue, and decided that I would drop one if that proved true. I have decided to drop the Scala class over one of the others because it turns out that it's a class on learning functional programming using Scala as opposed to a class about learning Scala. I definitely don't need to learn about functional programming since I did that almost 20 years ago. Oh well. It looks like I'll have to teach myself Scala if I want to learn it.

Ubuntu 12.04

I finally got around to upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.04, the previous LTS) last week at work. I put it off until now because I wanted to finish my latest project and didn't want to worry about something going bonkers after migrating and delaying the project. After almost of week of using it (it won't be a full week until tomorrow), I like Unity (the shell UI), but it's going to take some getting use to its way of doing things.

Gone Digital: Into the Vault

I'm sad. Since I haven't logged into Secret World in almost 2 weeks and with Borderlands 2 coming out today, I ended up cancelling my SW account for the foreseeable future. I know I will get back to it eventually but not sure when. Borderlands (the original) consumed quite a bit of time, and I have no doubt that number two will as well. Plus next month sees Dishonored and Assassin's Creed 3 both releasing. Because of this, it may be at least December before I get back to my Dragon.

WIR: Path of the Outcast

Next on the list: Path of the Outcast, book 3 of the Eldar Path trilogy. The first 2 books were a nice change of pace from the Imperial stories.

WIR: Blood of the City

The Priests of Mars turned out pretty well, as a story not necessarily in the story. (This is Warhammer 40k after all.) Next on the list is another Pathfinder Tales novel: Blood of the City.

It follows their trend of unusual main characters with having what they call a "cobblestone druid" or a druid that inhabits a city rather then wilderness. I may have said this before, but I'm really glad that Paizo has decided to take this path (pun intended) with their novels. I'm about two-thirds of the way done already and am really enjoying it.

Where's the Time Gone?

We took Riley to see his first movie Saturday: Nemo 3D. He sat through all but the last 15-20 minutes, at which point he started moving between seats.

It's been almost two weeks since I've played Secret Wars. Between Guild Wars 2, classes, family in town, and just life in general, I've not had extra time to play it. I could play SW instead of GW2, but I want to get some use out of the money I put in buying the game.

I also have a new class starting tomorrow: Functional Programming Principles in Scala. I know a little about Scala but have not really looked into it before. I'm looking forward to the class. I hope I just don't get overwhelmed by work and three classes (even if they are non-credit courses).

With Class: Back to School

Last week started 2 online classes for me over at Coursera: Model Thinking and Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics. These are not the first class I've taken there. That distinction belongs to Game Theory, which I already knew a little about but definitely learned a lot more. Last night I received an email that the first quiz for Model Thinking was posted so I'll do it today. I've not started the finance class videos yet (bad me), but they're on today's agenda too.

On a side note, I feel like crap. My day at work today may be a short one. I just hope I'm feeling better by the time for the Shadowrun game tonight.