Remember that pasty little Pilsbury doughboy? Yeah, the one that haunted your early years of baking with his freaky little laugh, wandering around on your counters, mocking your efforts with his canned biscuits and effortless cookies? Well, he finally got what was coming to him ...

- wednesday 01 12 00 -

W00t. It's 2000, and not a damn thing's changed. I got to sit at work and watch 25 different New Year's celebrations starting in Singapore and going across to Los Angeles. Jesus did not appear, the lights stayed on, and a whole lotta people got thoroughly intoxicated in public. Hmmmmm, can you say hype? I knew you could ...

SO, what has been going on in your world? Here in Dallas, they're expecting it to be 80 degrees today ... e-i-g-h-t-y freakin' degrees in January? Did somebody move me to Barbados in my sleep or something? My excellent friends Faris and Em are going to Colorado, and by God I wanna go with 'em. I hear they actually have winter up there sometimes.

To go with the heat, I don't have a new house. After four months and a wrecked Kia, we've given up for the time being. Instead, we have a new SUV to live in when we get booted out of our current rental. At least the seats drop so I can stretch my legs out a bit - no coffee maker though. That'll have to change ...

Still waiting for a PC upgrade - maybe tax time this year will see me purchasing a discount TNT2 and a 100MHz FSB Celeron in the 500+ MHz flavor. That'd be a sweet little swing. It sure would help my Quake III game, and it'd make running Q3Radiant a whooooole lot smoother. Speaking of that particular form of crack cocaine, I've actually learned how to use a level editor and made a good deal of progress on a working, playable game level for Q3. I don't care if it ever sees the light of day in the gaming community - it's just very cool to be able to build a virtual world of your own that you can jump into. Praise to id for designing a game engine as cool as the one powering Quake III.

Other stuffnitz. Christmas was very nice this year - got to visit my future in-laws and my parents, and got to spend all the remaining money that I had. Recommendations for the hardware junkie in you:

• the Intellimouse Explorer, from Microshaft - it's the biggest damn mouse in town, it's USB (bye-bye, PS/2 Rate), it glows in the dark, not to mention it doesn't accumulate desk scum ...

• the Logitech Mouseman, from (surprise!) Logitech - not the biggest, but definitely the most comfortable, and it's USB, so it tracks like your grandfather's bird dog ...

• Quake III Arena - so you can beat the ever-living crap out of the hardware you have - and you thought Kingpin was a resource hog? Meet your system's master, earthling ...

• the Saitek Cyborg joystick - it'll give you a reason to buy some flight simulator games - it's not force-feedback, but it's pretty damn cool for 35 bucks. My good friends Jihad and Kali98 sent me one for Xmas - along with a copy of Descent 3. I hadn't played Descent since to original waaaay back in 1994, and I'm still spending a lot of time running into walls ...

Bookstores are still tops as far as shopping destinations, but I just can't spend the money for new stuff. I still have to give my money to Recycled Books, Records, and CD's at the corner of Locust and Hickory in Denton - the place is frickin' amazing! Current reading: Hearts In Atlantis by King, Rainbow Six by Clancy, and Deathstalker by, hmmm, somebody my mom recommended ;).

Music - Mazzy Star's So Tonight I Might Sleep, Lyle Lovett's The Road To Ensenada, Alice In Chains' Dirt, and last but not least, 311's Soundsystem. I have to say that the last one rocks a lot harder than I had any right to expect - the boys are still pumping out the same Wailers-via-Led Zeppelin-via-Pantera crunch that hooked me so hard with their '92 album Music. Joe Bob sez check it out ...

Movies - get grossed out and laugh your ass off at American Pie. I was ROTFLMAO at this one, mainly because I was able to pair just about every character in the movie with someone I went to school with ten years ago. I also saw Stuart Little, and it was pretty damn good. Funny, warm-hearted, and the CGI mouse was pretty impressive. Tossing in Hugh Laurie (of Black Adder fame) was a fun twist - seeing him playing a dad instead of a dunce was interesting. A nicely done family movie. Finally, for a dose of Three Stooges-inspired slapstick, grab a copy of Mousehunt and enjoy Nathan Lane and his brother kicking the crap out of each other and a hundred year-old house. Oh, and you get to watch Christoper Walken eat a mouse turd, which in itself is enough of a recommendation ;) ...

Whew, my hands are tired - more later, after I get some coffee ...

Oh, one last thing. As the SiN community has pretty much disappeared in the wake of Quake III and Unreal Tournament, I've decided to pull the pages that I originally started this site with. I would like to say one last goodbye and thank you to the SiN community for all the great gaming and fun that was had. It was most excellent ...

Until later.

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