Off to the nursing home, Kindle in hand...

    Saw Mom morning and afternoon yesterday, breaking up the day with a nice chicken wrap lunch at Moroney's Hub. Still can't drink, so the affair was decidedly sober, but a lot of fun nonetheless. Today, Reibo will be holding down the HQ as Bath-Fitters come in to redo the shower, converting an old recessed-wall tub into a shower stall.

    I never did any gaming last night. Instead I did more reading. Since Matt64 turned me into a Kindle fanatic, I've been reading some of the books he already had stored on his old e-reader. I've become a huge fan of the late Stieg Larsson. I greatly enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and I'm currently reading The Girl Who Played with Fire. More than gaming, reading seems to distract me better from my current worries, so I'm sticking with that for the moment.

    It was pretty spiffy that Blue posted the link to 2Old2Play's Reach review yesterday. I sometimes submit links I blog to his gaming news site, since it gets a lot more traffic than my personal gaming blog does, and it's some exposure at least. Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 vid is a dual commentary with a real, live CoD-playing girl, PinkRanger206, guesting on ONLYUSEmeBLADE's channel. You can view her other vids (and her picture; yes, she's very attractive) on her own pink-hued YouTube channel. The second vid is a demonstration of the power of the One Man Army perk by BrassMonkeigh, who will be going head-to-head with Fourzerotwo for charity, as noted in the CoD news link below. Give 'im Hell, BrassMonkeigh! Moving on...

• Guardian.co.uk interviews Treyarch's Josh 'JD_2020' Olin on Call of Duty: Black Ops.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops pre-orders for Xbox 360, PS3 in top five.
• Robert 'Fourzerotwo' Bowling to be 'noob-tubed' for charity.

• Joystiq's Halo: Reach Invasion mode Forge guide. 
• Halo: Reach glitch unlocks custom helmet. Meanwhile, some Reach players finding non-functional armor enhancements require too much time investment to be worthwhile.
• Destructoid: For the uninitiated: This is what Minecraft is about. Shitty graphics?
• Kotick: Bungie is the last quality indie developer. CVG: O RLY?
• PC digital game sales surpass physical game sales. 
• 1Up Tokyo Game Show booth babes, and cosplay Part 1 and Part 2.

• New compass detects magnetic fields with light beams. 
• First habitable exoplanet may be discovered by May. Free parking, but the commute's a bitch.
• Like the Astronomy Picture of the Day? Now, you can have it changed as your desktop wallpaper daily - automagically.
• Zone Alarm uses 'scare tactics' against users. Nice PC you got here... Be a shame if something was to happen to it.
• Can you protect your computer for free? Yeah, it's called AVG.
• Apple approves VLC video player for iPad, available in app store.
• iPad not reason for weak laptop sales. It's the economy, stupid. Duh. 
• Playstation update goes live, adds 3D Blu-Ray support.
• 4Chan takes down RIAA, MPAA websites. 
• Nearly every National Geographic documentary to be available this week on Netflix streaming.
• Blue's News Link of the Day: SyFy plans most awesome day of programming ever. Mansquito 24 hour marathon?

 

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