Judgment

Hypothesis: If I tone down my computer and internet usage, it will positively impact my grades, extracurriculars, and social life.
Procedure: I bought World of Warcraft.
Conclusion: yeop

I Should Be Sleeping

Word: OLOEOXEPOP
Points: 124
Meaning: I've run out of actual Scrabble words

Oh What

Hell, it's about time.

Lazy Afternoon

Just when I thought I had nothing to blog about, I find this [maybe NSFW].

I want a Wii.

Nintendo Wii

Long time no Wii.

According to IGN via Digg, the Revolution is officially the Nintendo Wii.

I am overwhelmed with ambivalence.

Oblivion

The game has been obtained via Case.

Aside from that, this is news to me: Microsoft delays Vista until January 2007. Sucks.

I saw V for Vendetta last night at Valley View and was pretty impressed with it. Hugo Weaving is still a great actor even without the use of his face, and Natalie Portman showed that she can actually perform in a moton picture with some form of emotion (she was good too).

Unfortunately, I have both SAGES and physics lab tonight. I require sleep.

This Could Make Me Like Battlefield Again

...if I had a computer able to play it: Battlefield 2142. Looks like Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Friggin' awesome.

Hail of Bullets

More assorted junk for the day.

• There appears to be a winner to the WinXP on Mac contest, wherein someone will win a cash pool for proving they have successfully booted Windows XP on a new Intel Mac. Unfortunately, I can't see this being very useful for the average Joe who just wants to dual-boot, but it's nice to know that it can be done anyways.



• Someone took the sounds from the classic Mario games and added them to the Gogo fight from Kill Bill Vol. 1. Hilarity ensues.



• [via Digg] Apparently, the jalapeño component capsaicin is lethal to certain forms of cancer. Ouch. I guess all those Quaker Steak wings really do help after all. Boy, are the side effects bad, though.



• Finally, from the Traumatically Ironic department, a deaf girl was hit by a train while text-messaging her family. From TFA:

  McAvoy was walking northbound along the railroad ties, with her back to the train as it approached, said Austin Police Department detective David Fugitt.

  ...

  A snowplow -- commonly referred to as "cattle-guards" for pushing items away from the tracks to avoid train damage -- was what struck McAvoy, who was estimated to be "no more than a foot" from the tracks, Fugitt said.

  Oops.

Hopefully since all the doods from OSU are arriving back today we'll be able to have some sort of shindig tonight. Tomorrow I have to do some homework and maybe pack for a bit, since I'll effectively be leaving Friday afternoon due to a sleepover at Alex's and the impending Fakeball draft (which I've done zero planning for). Then Saturday I go right from Alex's to pick up Laura at the airport, then we head back to Case where I can prepare for the Dream Theater concert the next day. Phew.

More coffee...

Pure Morning

Continuing the song titles... it's late, and here are some quickies.

• The Playstation 3 will apparently be delayed again as Sony tries once more to force its proprietary media format on an unsuspecting market. The DVD format wars are getting to be even more ridiculous than the +/- debacle of yesteryear.



• Speaking of debacles, instead of creating a simple-to-understand, definitive version to buy, Microsoft has proclaimed that Windows Vista will have no less than six boxed formats available for purchase. Honestly, we've got things called DVDs now. Linux can somehow cram more setups than you can shake a stick at on only one disc (though, given, Linux is much more segmented and chop-friendly than Windows could ever aspire to be). Now we need six separate, empirically different versions of the same operating system? I can only imagine this being a support nightmare as the techie on the phone tries frantically to figure out the differences between Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium.



• From the Who-Didn't-See-This-Coming Dept. comes news that, due to financial difficulties (surprise!), the Phantom game console has been put on hold for an indeterminate period of time while they lose money elsewhere. I can't believe Penny Arcade didn't get wind of this earlier and really dig into them, knowing their history with Infinium Labs.

That's all for tonight. I'll already likely be sleeping through my recitation this morning, though I desperately need the information. We shall see what transpires in the later morn.

Tripwire Garden

Little to talk about.

Wang showed me a game he discovered based on the hidden minigame in Project Gotham Racing 2 called Geometry Wars. The game's called Grid Wars, and it's addictive as all hell. The description that everyone seems to agree on is "Asteroids on crack", the first thing I said to Wang when he showed me it (we then Googled a review of it and the summary was exactly "Asteroids on crack", by an interesting coincidence; in fact, a review of Geometry Wars is the first search result for "Asteroids on crack"). Just goes to show that gameplay is once again > graphics.

In other news, Google now offers a hosting service for members of Gmail. 100mb of space, ad-free... sounds like a deal to me. This essentially doubles my available web space (including the 100mb provided by my university), which is certainly nice. What'd be even better is to scrounge up another hard drive and run my own web server, but Case's outgoing speed may be prohibitive to that sort of endeavor...

Regardless, I have reading to do for SAGES now that requires my attention more than the intertron. With photography trouble and now drama with regards to our housing situation for next year, things have been a bit hectic. Time to sit back and fall asleep doing my reading assignment.