Early update... going to sleep on 2nd break, lol...

    As this auto-posts on the HQ, I should be mere minutes from kissing my beloved Effie again!! It was a crappy (tho short) work week, but everything will be OK when I take her in my arms again!! Effie, honey, I love you!! I'll be home for coffee in a few minutes!!

    Today is Mama Joker's birthday!! Not sure if she'll be well enough to partake of any festivities today, but I'll be sure to call her to wish her a happy birthday anyway!! Love you, Mom!! Happy birthday!!!

    Out of idle curiosity, I downloaded the Killing Floor Unreal Tournament 2004 mod. My travel laptop runs UT 2004 relatively seamlessly, and I was wondering what features were available in the older Killing Floor rev that ran on that. In the gaming links below, I've embedded a YouTube video of 'first impressions' of the ver. 2.52 release of the UT 2004 mod. 

     I think my laptop is a bit too underpowered to play the UT2004 flavor of Killing Floor, tho. After installing, I tired out one game, basically setting up a listen server of it, and it was laggy as all hell. Guess I'll have to stick to the other version which runs with a better frame-rate. Plus, the older version had one server available... in Amsterdam... and it was password protected, lol. Moving on...

• [Op-ed Feature] MW3 versus Black Ops irrelevent thanks to Call of Duty dynamic.

• Doom 4 developer responds to leaked images.
• EverQuest Online Adventures going offline.
• Darksiders II will feature three community built weapons.
• Free-to-play sim Microsoft Flight released.
• Activision lays off 600 from Blizzard videogame division. Guess Diablo 3 is about done, lol...
• [Video] The HMS Titanic rendered in CryEngine 3.
• [Image] Dear game developers: Yes, a woman can look hot dressed for battle in something besides a bikini.  Yes, yes... Just not quite as hot! (Original image link posted on Reddit TwoXChromosomes.)
• [Image] After trying Microsoft Flight, I'm considering becoming a pilot. (Original image link credit: zeazzz on Reddit Gaming.)

• Saturn's radio waves sound like music playing in a haunted house.
• [Image] Martian lake of ice and water. (Original image link credit: xbenny78x on Reddit Pics.)
• Asteroid could endanger Earth in 2040.
• SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 assembly completed.
• Astronauts drink from zero-G cups on the International Space Station.
• The Raspberry Pi computer in action.
• Raspberry Pi retailers overwhelmed by demand for $35 Linux micro-PC. Also covered on ZDNet. Overwhelmed as in websites crashing, that is...
• Google: Technology is making science fiction real.
• [Image] My WWII Jeep and weapons. (Original image link credit: schrute_buck on Reddit Guns.)