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I don't know what happens next
Weekend before last, just after I returned from Paris, my beloved Lucy had a health crisis. She had stopped eating just before my return - she was dehydrated and wan - thin and weak. I took her to the vet for an exam, and got meds for a possible ulcer from the NSAIDs she's been taking for years. Sunday she started vomiting and stumbling around. I ( Read more... ) -
Mass Effect 2: 1/2 the management, twice the consequences
I'm going to blather about Mass Effect 2 - and i'm going to discuss gameplay elements and plot points, as well as strategery, so SPOILER WARNING- if you haven't played Mass Effect, or Mass Effect 2 and don't want to be spoiled - turn back here.
Mass Effect is a paradigm shift in video games - no, not video games - in interactive story telling. I say ( Read more... ) -
District 9
I haven't seen Avatar, nor do I wish to, really. I'm not a Cameron hater - indeed I think his best film is The Abyss, despite it's relative market failure and tainted production story. What really turned me off was the push for 3D - just today Samsung, inc, on facebook, asked me to become a fan of their 3D televisions. 3D, i'm told, is the next ( Read more... ) -
giant apes and thor's hammer both end up in batman's belt...
So, this is another muse on video games - feel free to pass if you don't dig it.
I'm an achievement whore - i love them - it gets me away from my foolish customary assumption that people tell the truth. As i kid,. recitations of high scores and claims to have finished games made me feel inferior and sucky. Now, I know who has done what - which is ( Read more... ) -
play me a story...
So, over the last few years, i've moved steadily from 'casual' gamer to largely focused on video games as entertainment in my life. I rewarded myself after a promotion with a big tv and xbox back in 2001...halo drove that...but now i have all three current gen consoles, a media cave and library of games promising everything from 8-bit bleeps and ( Read more... ) -
century twenty one - subjective view
beingk konstantin sent this link to me - 7 reasons why the 21rst century is making you miserable and I loved it.
Now, i realize that posting a two year old link is like serving curdled milk, but i think what this article says is very true. We are, for the most part, now wrapped in individual cocoons - we see, hear, speak and interact only that which we ( Read more... ) -
well hello...
dang...i seem to have swapped facebook and foresquare for actual writing. oh, yeah, and my job got busy ( Read more... ) -
Sticking my neck out
I had surgery on 18 November 2009 - surgeons at GW hospital removed two discs from my cervical spine (neck) and replaced them with spacers of metal and bone fragments to encourage the three vertebrae to grow together. The discs were crushed and distorted - they were causing me numbness in my fingers of both hands, and strange reflex changes in my ( Read more... ) -
Winter of my discontent
So, well, long time no blog...
been busy
went to canada in august, on the job I worked hard, did some cool stuff and got an award. Went to Spain for 9 days, had a great time. I came home to some difficult medical news.
Back in 2005 or so, during long marathon training runs, i had this strange phenomena, where my hands would fall asleep - my ( Read more... )
