This might be the best game, ever. Reason: Can't remember the last time I've come across a game with literally zero grind. No repetitive action. For the 'meat' of the game, solving puzzles- each puzzle is different with no repeats, nor any cheesy reprising the same puzzle with an only-slightly-different flavor. Shouldn't be such a novel thing but it really is.

Also no puzzles that rely on pure anagrams, big-time number crunching, external knowledge of other languages / scripts.  Nice.

Finished Braid for the first time.

The levels are really clever. Got all the puzzle pieces, got the ending/epilogue, and was left really confused.

What the heck is going on! I understand 0% of the lore of this game.

Check mail. Get a nice greeting card in the mail. Great!
Except, mail envelope has been torn open. No customs stamp. Not re-sealed. Illegally opened, then. Sad face.
Open envelope and card. Inside, a PSN gift card.

I think this thief was more of an Xbox fan.

Finished reading: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.

A story about a Muslim family living in New Orleans during the time of Hurricane Katrina.

This tackles some difficult subject matter. I think the narrative is high quality- colorful and never wandered too much. I don't feel like there was anything deeper to the story though. Since it was based on a real-life story, I don't think the author felt comfortable moving much beyond "this is a really bad thing that happened".

Possible to attach a rotary phone to a VoIP line?
Turns out yes.

Method:

Use a pulse-to-tone converter- an box that converts pulse signals into DTMF tones, since there are zero VoIP boxes around (that I know of!) that understands pulses. The phone plugs into this adapter, the adapter plugs into the VoIP box which I have connected to my router.

Replaying Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (replaying nostalgia games lately) and it never occurred to me until now how BAD the soundtrack is.

I mean, the game has other qualities. Just not that. Why are literally all the dungeons and bosses one of two pieces? Why are all the loops like 5 seconds long? Why does this exist:

I would link to the Fortune Teller music but I don't want to put anyone else through that today.

I would agree with Mr Stark but then we would both be wrong.

Can testify that the Win7-->Win10 upgrade experience is just really good. Just did my laptop, expected at least something to fall out. You know how laptops are. But everything was migrated over perfectly- apps, app state, profile. Under an hour!

Or, maybe it's just that thing where, if you meticulously back up all your data and app state, your upgrade will go seamlessly.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/win2d/2015/07/29/announcing-win2d-version-1-0-0/