I'm Late! For a very important date!

    Well, my morning meeting Saturday morning was mercifully brief and painless. I got out of work only 15 minutes or so later than I usually do... I was glad of that because I was really, really feeling tired towards the end. I had some serious Dracula-style eyeball redness. (Still have a bit, but it should clear up by tomorrow, after a decent night's sleep.)     Saturday night's dinner with the folks and family friends went very well. I had a very nice grilled chicken salad. It was a very relaxed, enjoyable evening. I was really tired afterward, so, except for a brief trip onto Facebook and some abortive attempts at continuing my Half-life 2 campaign, I went to sleep right afterwards.     Today, I'm venturing North for my Rail Trail walk. I'm really looking forward to it.     I've reached one of those points in gaming where I'm going to be forced to backtrack several savegames. One of the frequently criticized features of the otherwise superb Half-life 2 campaign are the seemingly interminable airboat segments. Well, I ditched the airboat at the first opportunity, but I found it was too soon. I traversed an area poisoned by radioactivity on foot, and I emerged from it with a health of 17/100 and a gunship waiting outside for me. I'll have to go back a chapter and pick up the airboat. *sigh*

    Moving on...

• Call of Duty: Black Ops gameplay vid shows quickscoping. 
• Call of Duty: Black Ops to outsell Medal of Honor.

• Blacklight: Tango Down hits PSN on 26 October 2010. 
• Medal of Honor reviews: PlayStation Lifestyle; Guardian UK; Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune; Tri-Valley Central.
• Feature: Paint it Black: Special Ops and Gaming.
• Halo: Reach modders caught on tape.
• First Look at World of Warcraft: Cataclysm during Sunday afternoon NFL football.
• The Controversial Story of the Xbox Live Avatar Zombie Massage Makers. 
• The Test of Time: Games That Have Aged with Grace.
• Pac-Punkin Lawn Decoration for Halloween.

 

Call of Duty 4 Jack-o-lantern

• Modeling a white hole in your kitchen sink.
• US electrical grid too crappy to be attacked by terrorists.
• Five times we almost nuked ourselves. 'Would you like to play a game?' 
• Where lactose-tolerant humans came from. I ain't one.
• With 30 USB ports, you can cook meat. Not that you'd want to... 
• The ease of self-publishing an e-book.
• Dying (7 year old) Girl Kathleen Edward Cyberbullied by 33-Year-Old Neighbor: Why? Because on the internet a coward like the neighbor can do that and not get her ever-loving ass kicked into next week.
• The Hobbit to begin filming February 2011.
• Cracked: Five Reasons Hollywood Needs to Stop Making Prequels. 

Olivia Wilde looks relaxed in her spandex on Tron: Legacy...