the Battle Cat

Calling to you from the Mountain Lion underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building...

I finally made the jump from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.  So far so good, download went well, created a USB install disk with Lion Diskmaker, and did the install.  Piece of cake and it isn't all iOSed to hell like I feared.  

Think it's time to get some Borderlands 2 going on.

Against my better judgment I've started a new game of Eschalon Book II after abandoning it when Basilisk Games added new content for intel computers that was inaccessible by PPCs.  I didn't get very far, I had just reached Port Kuudad.  Now that I've started it again after 2 years, I recognize almost none of it.

Now one of the biggest pains in the game is spending skill points on things that you could buy with training.  What I need from you nerds is the best route to take, both in what skill points not to spend, and where the nearest towns are for training.  Is there a best order to use?  What quests will get me closer to these goals I've given myself?

Don't fail me now, or I'll be traumatized for life.  

My wife has an iPad 2 and wants to download movies to it to watch later when she is out of range of wifi, a situation that will occur next week.  The problem is, it's not a straight forward thing and I've about given up on finding a way for her to do this.

The movies she is interested are public domain, very old movies that are free to download.  How can she accomplish this and CAN she accomplish this.  Now we have a couple movies downloaded and sitting on our desktop.  If I can't download directly to the iPad, how may I transfer these movies to her iPad?

I have a couple of great family friendly Christmas movies to recommend and would appreciate hearing your recommendations too.

First off is Arthur Christmas.  We both gave this one 5 stars.  Absolutely awesome CGI animated Christmas movie with most the themes of the Christmas spirit.  Funny, exciting and moral.  Arthur's father is Santa and he is in line along with his brother to become the next Santa.  The elves are totally kick ass cool and devoted to their tasks.  You have to see this one, Battle Cat recommended... meaning "watch it or die writhing in a pool of your own vomit and blood."  I will however place a festive bow on your grisly remains.

Another fun and funny Christmas movie is Elf.  This one was to become our Christmas classic movie to watch every year until we saw Arthur Christmas.  Buddy is a human adopted as a baby by Santa's elves who, after growing up, decides to find his real father in New York.  Buddy is played by Will Ferrell but the gross out, irreverent, dumb ass portrayals he normally does is put on a shelf for this movie.  He gives a very touching performance of a person with true Christmas spirit in a hardened and cynical New York City atmosphere.

I remember hearing at one time that DivX causes some graphical glitches in various games.  Is this still true or have those bugs been worked out of DivX?  Why I ask is that I'm trying to watch an old John Wayne movie "The Unconquered" on Veehd.com and it requires this plugin for Safari.

Should I shine this on or give it a shot?  How difficult is it to uninstall DivX?