Morning Coffee 135

  • Congrats to Barack Obama for walking away with the Iowa Democratic Caucus, which set turnout records. Frankly, I’m pretty cool with any of the democratic front runners but I think Obama has the best chance of winning in November. I’m not sure Edwards second time around will be any more successful than the last and I believe Clinton would drive the GOP GOTV campaign better than any of the actual GOP candidates would.
  • Obviously, I like to play M-rated games like Bioshock and Mass Effect. But I also like games I can play with my kids like Lego Star Wars. There are two new Lego games coming out this year: Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman. I can’t wait.
  • Speaking of gaming, Xbox LIVE had some issues over the holiday break, due to record setting sign-ups and concurrent users. Record setting numbers is a nice problem to have if you’re on the business side, but a not-so-nice if you’re a customer or work in operations. The XBL GM announced they’re offering a “token of appreciation” for everyone’s patience – a free XBLA game. Assuming it’s not a crappy game, it’s a classy move.
  • I watched Transformers on HD-DVD last night. Fun movie with lots of action, but man is it dumb. John Turturro is the only real stand-out.
  • Dustin Campbell implements cons, cdr and car from Scheme in C# and VB. While of limited production value (Dustin specifically warns readers not to use any of his code), it really demonstrates how different the functional world is from the object/imperative one, right down to the concept of type. Cons doesn’t return a tuple, it returns function with two bound variables. (via DNK)
This entry was posted by DevHawk on January 4, 2008. It was posted in Morning Coffee and Politics. It was tagged Functional Programming, Movies and Xbox 360.

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