12 more hours of work, then... Home!

Today's the last work night for me, so tomorrow morning I'll be winging back home for a short weekend. At work, it's a shutdown week for some facilities upgrades, but I don't have any vacation time accrued yet. I guess that means it'll be make-work for 3 nights this coming week. Luckily, I've got four glorious days off to recover afterward.
This Monday also features a return engagement with Dr. Anti-House. He should be pleased with my progress thus far. I confess I haven't felt this good, overall, in decades. And, I'm being super-strict about my eating habits. The next phase will be some form of mild exercise, probably a regimen of brisk walks. Plus, there are a couple of cute housewives in my neighborhood who walk daily. ;-)

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One item which I found particularly hilarious today was the news that the Call of Duty military advisor - the dyed in the wool combat vet who advises the devs on realism, tactics, etc. - is a confirmed Timmy-hater. He even goes so far as to call them 'little bastards', which is mild compared to the stuff I call them when the mike is muted.

Today's featured Modern Warfare vid is another of Ken Burton's 'Shit I never use' vids, this one featuring the Riot Shield. I can't get the hang of using that damn thing, and I've been pwned a bunch of times with it. Once, I got caught without a grenade launcher class and had to resort to the default Assault Class. There was a certain savage satisfaction about getting a thumper bullseye on those shield-wielding douchebags, I must admit. The second vid is a failtage by AnojRL. How many epic fails can a game have before itself becomes an 'epic fail'? Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops first impressions: USAToday.
• Treyarch confirms 'familiar faces' from Call of Duty franchise returning in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Odds are it won't be Zampella and West, tho.
• Call of Duty franchise 'won't go back to WWII'. Good.
• Call of Duty military advisor hates 12 year-olds. Don't we all?
• What if Call of Duty was a Pokemon game? (video).

• 1Up's Halo: Reach Launch Center. More Halo: Reach scuttlebutt than you can shake a Gravity Hammer at.
• Blacklight: Tango Down updated with tweaks and fixes for PC and XBLA. PS3 update upcoming.
• On Portal 2's dropped competitive multiplayer. Co-op still in, which is awesome.
• Sony downplays initial Move controller sales expectations.
• Best Buy expands game trade-ins to stores.
• Target taking game trade-ins, too.
• Ars Technica op-ed: Buying Used Games - Developers, Publishers Don't Care About You. Well, we kinda already knew that...

Non-Gaming Links:

• APOD: Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689 Magnifies the Dark Universe.
• The Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay.
• Solar Neutrino and Radioactive Decay Effect Doubted.
• Blastr's Best Bloopers from Sci-Fi.
• Henson's widow donates original Kermit the Frog to the Smithsonian.