I’ve started the Mom’s visit countdown clock to T - 13 days and counting. I’ve spent the last week getting her new powerbook ready when she visits. Yup, she’s getting a new 12in powerbook. She’ll be one hip old lady. It’s running Tiger right now and it has a full development environment installed (xcode, gcc, ruby, darwinports). The development environment is really for me to use while I shakedown her new Mac (I’m typing on it as we speak, getting the battery to drain down so that it will be calibrated correctly). I’m not sure what she’ll need though… At a minimum, she’ll need a web browser for her browsing and webmail needs. I’ll try to get her a nice easy book about Macs so that she learn how to use it better.

In other news, I’ve been on Ruby and C++ template metaprogramming kick lately. But those are entries for another time.

Also tonight, season 2 of BSG begins. I wasn’t sure about watching BSG when it started. I grew up with the old series and I wasn’t sure how I would handle some of the changes. But that’s all in the past, after watching a couple of episodes from season 1. Right now, BSG is the best sci-fi series out there. In fact, it’s as good as TNG seasons 4 - 7.