Last work night... Yay....

    Bit of a weak blog today due to time pressures. Mom's doing better today. She sounded far stronger than last week. Word is, the move to a physical rehab facility may be coming by the weekend or the start of next week. We're all hopeful that we've seen the worst of this, and Mom can make a full recovery.

      I usually buy my stogies online. My two favorite etailers are JR Cigar and Holts.com. Both offer excellent values in boxes, bundles, and samplers. I can't smoke at home, so I usually smoke when I drive to work or at lunch during work weeks. A daily premium cigar is too expensive for me, so I usually get an inexpensive bundle from one of the online stores. Lately, for my daily, inexpensive cigar, I've been smoking Holt's 'Bottom Shelf' cigars. The website description gives the cigar short shrift, tho pointing out that the 'Bottom Shelf' cigars still taste light years better than machine-mades available here in the US. And it's true.

    Today's featured Call of Duty 4 vid is a flawless TDM on crash by the redoubtable Ronin6337. Second up is Kiddy Kong tearing up Quarry with the akimbo Vectors. Moving on...

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Prestige' edition preview on BASHandSlash.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops to include zombie mode? I'd be surprised if it didn't. 
• Black Ops beta 'in consideration'. I'll be POed if they don't have one. 
• Is Call of Duty all it's cracked up to be? More than this limp article seems to be...

• StarCraft II buoys PC gaming sales while console game sales fall.
• Square Enix releases Chaos Rings for iPad.
• Id's Rage dated: 13 September 2011. And thirteen is my lucky number! 
• Live with Rage at QuakeCon.
• Rage headed to iPhone at 60 FPS. I'm pretty sure my PC couldn't run it at 60 FPS.
• John Carmack: Id probably done with new IPs for next 10 years. 
• What if everyone behaved the same way with games? It would suck, I imagine.

• Astronaut underwear and other oddities from space auction.
• Android OS overtakes Apple; smartphone sales explode. And Apple fanboi heads asplode...
• Chrome to Phone now available in the Android market.
• Google supporting Flash in Android: 10 Possible Outcomes.
• Facebook disagrees with Google-Verizon pact. 
• New law forbids sending smokes to soldiers. WTF, over?!?!
• Woman threatens to call 911 for help - while being arrested.
• Spiderman musical to open on Broadway. Hoo boy.