Coffee, Tea, or Thee? And Matt's bday!

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    So, the day for a real life meeting has arrived - finally. We have the HQ under siege by plumbers this AM, sometime. In the afterlunch, I have my long delayed coffee/tea meet, which hopefully will be painless and fun for both of us. Always an awkward moment, the first meeting, but I'll try to be at my best. It's difficult for me to conceive of anyone being nervous about meeting an old wreck like myself, but, since I'm a bit nervous myself, maybe it's not all that far-fetched.     Towards the evening, I have to drop off my Jeep for some repairs to be done tomorrow. Sometime this PM, Matt will be coming over for some birthday celebrating at the HQ. Really looking forward to it, as I hear there'll be some adult beverages on hand for a change... Moving on...

• Bannination for Call of Duty: Black Ops swastika player emblems. Euorgamer recaps Microsoft's case here.
• YouTube: Call of Duty: Black Ops Firing Range map jumps.

 

    More Gaming Links:

 

 Seen in the Wild: Aperture Science Window Decal

• Mass Effect 3 confirmed. Maybe.
• Bioshock Infinite won't be a mere port to the PS3.
• Duke Nukem Forever interview. Also, EuroGamer's Why did Duke Nukem take so long?
• Kinect can turn you into 'Star Wars Kid'. They say that like it's a good thing...
• Nvidia 3DVision ready for prime time? Not at those prices.
• Play the zombie apocalypse simulator Class 3 Outbreak.

• Gigantic 'gravity lenses' magnify galaxies far, far away.
• Old news, but interesting: Ketogenic diet has anti-epileptic effect.
• Techno-lust: 'What was the slowest you flew in the SR-71 Blackbird?'
• Apple getting iPad 2 ready.
• The 19 Senators who voted to censor the internet. 
• Ten inventors killed by their own inventions.
• Cracked: Five Famous Scientists Dismissed as Crackpots in Their Time. Can't believe my favorite, Robert H. Goddard, didn't make the list, despite being savaged by The New York Times in 1920.