Thursday, November 20, 2003  

Quickie today. After posting my WORLD RECORD feat yesterday in Project Gotham Racing 2, a colleague of mine at Ziff-Davis, Axel Strohm, decided to challenge it. He smashed it. I wasn't about to take that lying down, so I downloaded his "ghost", raced it, and after many tries beat him to set the record. Then he went off and after half an hour or so beat my time to set another record. Then I went off AGAIN to try and beat his time... and finally, finally set another record. The funny thing is, we actually raced each other earlier in the day and as much fun as that was, we had SO much more fun trying to beat each others' top times on that one track... it helped too that the "winner" would hold the world record. The competition has been tons of fun and I'm hoping he comes back to break my record tomorrow, because having someone else along to push me means we're setting times I scarcely thought possible before -- Axel and I have pushed the record down by FOUR SECONDS since we started this. Tons of fun!

The other thing is that I saw Episode 4 of 24. I said it was ramping up last time around, but it REALLY REALLY went all-out in this one. The third season finally has an episode that can rival the happenings in the first and second seasons, with cool twists and an amazing set-up for next week. I have no idea how they're going to top this next week!

Posted at 11:07 PM

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