very phucking nifty
fired up VPN today for the first time. well, yesterday technically…now that it’s 1 am. in an effort to play our game from home (and, you know, work on it and stuff), i installed VPN, logged in, and next thing you know i’m browsing the work network like MAGIC, i tell you. hey, i’m old enough to remember FTPing a single short .wav file from a home machine to the college computer music lab overnight – the *whole* night – so this sort of voodoo still impresses me.
but just as soon as i was getting comfortable with The Future, the act of installing the game had me reliving the 9600 baud dark ages. the client is several GB at this point, and installing it via VPN ain’t exactly like using steam.
wow, i *just* got that. “valve“. “steam”. see? holy crap. /shame.
short story long, eight hours later the installation finished. it’s now tomorrow technically, but here i am playing from home (and working on it and stuff). now if i can just get some hologram meeting action going, i’ll finally be able to hole up in my underground lair and never report to work again.
