The number one realization that you're playing a game too much? When you start dreaming in the UI. I had a dream I was in Dragon Age: Origins...but it was being presented like a game. So I had to choose dialogue choices, give gifts to my teammates to increase their (visible) loyalty bar and then also pause the action to give them orders. Holy ( Read more... )

Dragon Age: Origins came in the mail yesterday and I eagerly installed the game, downloaded my free extra content and created my first character, a mage named Albedo (surprise!). The game is about what I expected, so far, though there is one added change that I didn't know about and don't care for. My character is silent! I hate silent ( Read more... )

I'm a little curious about the Visitor metaphor being used in V. I watched the first episode last night and here's what I got: Attractive, charismatic (not to mention telegenic and young) aliens come to earth, promising hope, change (which is hard), universal health care and appeals to the world's youth. Obvious parallels and metaphors abound in ( Read more... )

First of all, a PSA: The Left 4 Dead 2 demo should be out for everyone today. So if you haven't preordered it and haven't already been playing it, go out and download it. I think it's worth your time ( Read more... )

At the Kelly Clarkson concert, she covered a few songs. One of them (well, technically two) was a mashup of "That I Would Be Good"/"Use Somebody." It's a very well done mashup. I loved it. Here's a video someone took.

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She also covered "Seven Nation Army" and it, too, was rocking. The DJ introduction was pretty cool, as well.

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For people asking about my brother:

On Saturday, his flight from Hawaii to here was canceled because there was a crack in the windshield. Well, he went to snorkel at Shark's Cove which is named because when viewed from the sky, it looks like a shark's jaw. Here's a pic:


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My weekend ended on a truly bad note, which I won't get into here...sufficed to say it was bad. And while it wasn't a musical note, it was a note to myself. As Alanis has said, it is a jagged little pill. The weekend itself seemed to invite this jaggedness as it was, without a doubt, a pretty much wasted weekend. Don't get me wrong, I had a ( Read more... )

I'm feeling much better today, thankfully. The best I've felt since Saturday. Last night, I got to mess around with the Left 4 Dead 2 demo very briefly. By briefly, I mean I played through the first map with friends and got to the end of the second map (where we were mightily destroyed) and then had to go to bed. What I saw and played, though, ( Read more... )

Didn't go to work yesterday. Had a fever Monday night and into Tuesday. Sore throat, coughing, congestion. Ugh. It's really sucked so far. And I'm still feeling like crap. Haven't been sleeping well, as a consequence, and so last night took a sleeping pill...man do I feel groggy today. Slept a full night, though, which was nice ( Read more... )

Been up since four. Woke up at 2:00, then 2:30, then 3:30 and finally decided to get out of bed around 4:00. Don't know why I couldn't sleep. It seems to happen, now, once every month or so. Usually, it's because the kitties are doing something or my nose is congested, etc. This time, I don't even know what was causing it. Kitties were ( Read more... )