After our vacation last week, I drove back to Maine late Sunday night, only to realize that I had left the house keys in Boston! Fortunately, I also found out that I had left the house unlocked all week, so I was able to get inside and avoid hypothermia. Now who said two wrongs don’t make a right? My Nook Color also came in the mail this week, which I proceeded to overclock and flash with the CyanogenMod of the Android OS, essentially converting the refurbished e-reader into a snappy Honeycomb tablet. That’s not bad for $120, especially since the HP Touchpad fire sale turned out to be a disaster, wasting me 30 minutes of my life on Ebay and still leaving me empty-handed. Luckily, the Nook performed well in a test drive during our Chandler meeting. This year’s conference featured retina guru Glenn Jaffe, and kept me well fed with both a pre-dinner at the Chart House and a reception at the Millenium Boston Hotel. I spent the rest of the weekend with Melody playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a prequel to the acclaimed game in 2000 which is set in a beautifully-rendered dystopian future reminiscent of that in Blader Runner, and mimics the stealth tactics from the MGS series. Despite the fun of climbing through air ducts, hacking computer terminals, and silently taking down guards, we hope to crank through the game quickly to get to Skyrim by Christmas.