Waiting for Ike to come in.

(Might as well post something while my internet connection and power is available...)

Haven't gotten Halo3, but am now downloading all the cutscenes from the game in stark acknowledgement of my weenie FPS abilities.

;-)

I guess I'll be consistent and say last Tuesday's results happened becuase voters decided they liked one candidate over another and voted that way.

(I guess I need to find some other things to talk about or my next post will end up being November 2008, regardless of what the results of that election is.)

...and can't run it on their more advanced systems, there's a site with some patches for various Windows OS's at:

www.xcomufo.com

Haven't used them, so I don't know if they actually work or not, but it's worth a try.

(Someone mentioned a problem with X-Com on IRC, but left before I could find the link.)

...with non-English lyrics.

That song from an Excel music video. 'Mala Sa-'(mumblemumble).

*sigh*

( click )

That is all.

So I sit during my last hour of work today, answering the occasional call from people in Houston and in Australia and New Zealand. Phone rings, I get the user ID of the caller and it shows that he's calling from Australia and his name is...

( drumroll... )

Just finished bowling with some coworkers. First two games were around a 100 or so, then I managed to get three strikes in a row on the third game, then my luck kind of ran out and I didn't clear 100 in the next one. Now my arm hurts, but it was still fun ( Read more... )

Proof that media (over)hype is *not* a new thing... a small documentary on some shark attacks around 1915 or 1916. A shark attack in the area of New Jersey managed to push little things like Pancho Villa raiding in Texas and the Great War (that's World War One to us) to secondary status for a few weeks ( Read more... )