The best part of seeing Snakes on a Plane tonight was, by far, the audience. There was a lot of laughter, sometimes preceeded by collective groans, and a lot of clapping. The movie itself was actually much better than I expected it to be. I got a lot of joy out of watching them load [...]

I emailed Microsoft about the problem, and they had some suggestions — make sure the disc is clean, basically, and try other discs. Did all that already of course, but I can’t blame them for having that sort of front-line defense. Anyway, after a couple of emails with no improvement in the situation, they tell [...]