Packing up for work tomorrow...

Before yesterday's trip up to St. Francis to visit with Mom, Reibo and I had the pleasure of lunch at the Cat Palace with our old BBS cohort and shooting buddy, Wayne. It was a pleasure to catch up, and Wayne had some great stories about the (literal) fireworks at Renegades Stadium. The Stadium is a grenade toss away from the HQ, so we hear and sometimes see the fireworks at the games and special events... Wayne told me I should search for the amateur vid, and was I glad I did. Look:

Awesome. Needless to say, it wasn't Wayne's outfit which blew a hole in the stadium. Foodwise, I was a good boy at the Cat Palace, staying away from the white rice or any other starchy items. I stuck to chicken and mixed vegetables. I did sneak two dumplings, tho. ;-)
Mom looked pretty good, tho a bit tired after all the physical therapy. We were excited to hear that she took a couple of shuffling steps for the first time. We're hoping and praying that it's a sign of improvements to come...

I wanted to do some gaming last night, but when I got home, my eyes were burning so bad, I just wanted to hit the hay after an extra long day. Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 video is the irrepressible Ken Burton taking the FAMAS out for a spin. The second vid is a blades only Top Plays vid compiled by ThatGuyWhoCamps. We also have the welcome return of Jessica Chobot on IGN's Daily Fix, embedded below. I've dug up a nice, jiggly animated GIF as today's Chobot Fix. Moving on...

• Call of Duty map pack sales exceed 20 million sold. Of course, if you were subscribing to CoD, the maps would be free, right? Right. And speaking of that...
• GamaSutra revisits Pachter's pimping for Call of Duty subscriptions. FTA: "Activision could grow earnings meaningfully by monetizing Modern Warfare 2 online multiplayer," says Pachter. "We estimate that the number of hours spent playing MW2 online is roughly 4 billion combined on Xbox Live and PSN, suggesting a large revenue opportunity." O RLY?

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Arica Harbor multiplayer strats from BASHandSlash.
• Is StarCraft II killing video cards? Seems there's always a rash of video card fails after any graphics-intensive game is released...
• Why Xbox might be Microsoft's - and computing's - future. (Thanks, Blues News.)
• Xbox 360's lack of Blu-Ray a 'problem' for developers. And a PITA for consumers.
• CNN expresses Kinect retail price concern. Coughing up $150 for a peripheral is ridiculous for anyone but an enthusiast. Meanwhile, Microsoft is trying to convince developers that it won't cost too much to produce Kinect-based games.
• IGN Daily Fix for 2 August 2010 with the luscious (and jiggly) Jessica Chobot. (YouTube version embedded below.)

IGN Daily Fix for 2 August 2010

Uploaded 2 August 2010 on IGN Entertainment


Was Jessica missed at the HQ?

Oh, yes. She certainly was.

• LifeHacker: Use JailbreakMe to One-Click Jailbreak Your iOS 4.x Device. AppleInsider has a similar article for your jailbreaking info.
• Haier's bath/shower heat exchanger promises to make taking showers greener. All you have to do is stand on this uncomfortable looking grate thing.
• ISS cooling system problem causes equipment emergency shutdowns, repairs. 'Ironman One, this is capcom. Do you read, over?'
• Chernobyl radiation long term radiation affect wildlife.
• Is $200 billion a year really lost to piracy and counterfeiting? Turns out that stat oft used by the RIAA, MPAA, and other parasite organizations came straight from the Department of Statistics Pulled from the Ass.
• Hugh Hefner: 'Women are sex objects.' Quite true. When I want to have sex with a woman, she usually objects.

Fail Compilation, July 2010

Uploaded 1 August 2010 on TwisterFail