Happy Birthday, USMC!

Today, 10 November, is the USMC birthday. So, special birthday greetings to all the Leathernecks out there!

As this entry auto-posts on the HQ, the first work night is over, and I'm already counting down to going home to my beloved Effie!! Lord, I can't wait!! Effie, I love you, baby!! I'll be home Friday morning!

I managed to work up the mojo to stop at GameStop yesterday on the way to work, so I have my copy of Modern Warfare 3 in hand. It rode in the shotgun seat all the way to Albany, taunting me silently, lol. No worries, tho. It's not like I was going to crack the case open and play it on the spot. In the meantime, I did get skunked at GameStop on the Wii which I intend giving Missus Joker. As you may have seen in the blog news links from time to time, Zelda: Skyward Sword is scheduled for a November 2011 release on the Wii. I found a Wii Mario Brothers bundle online which was comparable and ordered it. I did have success at GameStop ordering the actual Zelda: Skyward Sword. I ordered the special edition with the Zelda branded nunchuck controller. That will mean two nunchucks available, so, if I'm not too controller challenged on the things, I might be able to play some video games with Missus Joker, too, and with my stepson, who is also a Call of Duty player. Moving on...

• Analyst: Modern Warfare 3 preorders hit nearly 9 million.
• Sledgehammer Games: Modern Warfare 3 isn't 'camper friendly'. 
• [Image] CoD's Law. (Image credit: xsentinel on Reddit Gaming.)

• [Video] Star Wars: The Old Republic beta gameplay with commentary. Never mind... already yanked by EA's copyright claims.
• Battlefield 3 passes Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live activity chart. Guess that's BF3's silver lining for all the folks playing Modern Warfare 3 instead...
• Zero Punctuation reviews Battlefield 3. (Not safe for work language, as usual.) 
• World of Warcraft loses 2 million subscribers in one year. Or is it just one million?
• Inventor of first video game console calls violent video games an 'abomination'. Only if they're done right...
• [Feature] The message of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
• [Image] Link's Zora armor cosplay. (Image credit: HarleyQ on Reddit Zelda.)

• [YouTube] Asteroid YU55 from Alfred University. Also, PCMag has NASA's YU55 footage.
• NASA's 'blacker than black' material absorbs 99% of wavelength from UV to infrared. 
• Russian Mars probe still stuck in Earth orbit.
• Water from arid air during drought situations. Windtraps, lol.
• Car thieves dumbasses who posted pics of themselves with stolen cars on Facebook arrested.
• Amazing fan-taken pics of Return of the Jedi sets.