Half-Life 2: Episode Two comes out in less than a month! I’m so psyched. Heck, I’m so psyched I actually said “psyched.” Oh snap!
Anyways, if you haven’t already noticed, I’m a bit of a Half-Life freak. It’s mostly because I can’t be a true Halo freak without an Xbox and I don’t want to shell out the big bucks for an Xbox when I have a computer that can play Half-Life games. Weird logic, I know. I love story-driven games, and the Half-Life series is about as story-driven as you can get. It’s like the Lost of video games. The more recent ones (Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One) even ended with major cliffhangers. Of course I’m going to want to find out what happens next.
Yeah…so, I’ll be overtaxing my Internet connection October 10 (maybe a few days later, just to give the Steam network some time to cool off) downloading the game. I’ll probably end up playing through it in a day or two, but it’ll be worth it. It’s a gamer thing.
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I just got my 500th spam comment caught by Akismet, which is seriously the coolest thing any WordPress blogger could have. Anyways, I thought that was a milestone. Partly because I’m a dork.
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Of Nukes and Fanboys
How do you mistakenly transport nuclear cruise missiles across the United States? Better ask the Pentagon, which recently admitted a B-52 bomber flew over several states loaded with nuclear weapons. Scary? Just a little.
What’s even worse, the crew of the plane didn’t even know what their payload was. What would have happened if they lost an engine (or four) or ran out of gas? “It’s okay, we can ditch the plane! It’s not as if we’re carrying bombs on board!” Strange how the press secretary to the Defense Department said the public was never in any great danger. I think I hear Murphy’s Law calling.
I can’t even understand how this could have happened. My guess is that some hacker in New Jersey is laughing his butt off, having created false orders for ground crew or some such. I really have no idea. It’s not as if nuclear missiles look like, I don’t know, giant cardboard boxes filled with teddy bears for Katrina victims (the plane was headed to Louisiana, after all). Someone goofed.
In other (random) news, the iPhone is getting a much-needed $200 price drop, which means anyone who ran out and bought it the instant it came out is going to be crying themselves to sleep for a while. You’ll be getting no sympathy from Steve Jobs. While he did give out $100 store credit certificates to early adopters, the general feeling is “That’s what you get for succumbing to the hype, you geeks.” Okay, he didn’t say that, but it’d be funny to have Jobs calling people geeks.
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