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I spent most of last week in Fort Lauderdale working on a customer's network and this week I'm headed up to Chicago for a day. Then in two weeks its Thanksgiving and three weeks after that is Christmas. Like I've always said after Halloween the rest of the year just goes by in a flash.

I bought Fallout 3 last week, right before I left for Florida. I only got to play it about 5 minutes before heading to the airport. I played it quite a bit this past weekend though. Its great. It really is a true sequel to the original two games with updated technology. It also HUGE. The strategy guide is over 600 pages. I played it all weekend and only did the very first part of the main story quest. You can literally just wander around the wasteland exploring.

I'd like it if the skills mattered a little more. The science skill allows you to hack computers but having a high science skill doesn't make the hard computers any easier. I really liked the way it was done in Bioshock. The hard computers were still hard but if you had a high hacking skill you got bonuses to make it easier.

Okay last thing Ken Hite, in his blog listed the westerns he thought everyone should see to be "Literate" in the western as a genre. Not necessarily the 10 best movies just the 10 movies that best represent the genre. I need to see some of these.

The Four Gospels:

High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Shane (George Stevens, 1953)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

The Two Commentaries:

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks' 1959 response to High Noon)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood's 1992 response to Shane)

The Two Heresies:

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)

The Epistle From The Virtuous Pagan Samurai:

The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960)

The Weird, Hallucinatory Apocalypse:

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1967)