Tuesday, March 02, 2004  

It's been a long, long time since I last posted, but I'm back by popular demand. No really, there was actual DEMAND for me to update.

And besides, today is a really good day to update. Why? It's Super Tuesday, the day 10 US states cast their vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee. Including California. Has anyone figured it out yet? No, I'm not a rabid Kerry fan. More like... a David Palmer fan:

"The following takes place between 6am and 7am on the day of the California Presidential Primary."

Yes, that's the intro to every episode of 24. Today is the day the events of the first series of 24 take place (though in fairness it could also refer to Super Tuesday in 2000, not 2004...). Yes, this is horribly geeky and silly. But would you expect anything else from me?

I've also been addicted to a couple of Flash games, Mini Putt 2 and 3D Pong. Mini Putt 2 is a great little minigolf game, very simple, but tons of fun. My best score is 45. 3D Pong on the other hand is probably more addictive than regular Pong, because it feels a bit fresher (we've played Pong millions of times and in various guises, from Breakout to Virtua Tennis) and is unfeasably hard. Seriously. What makes it worse is that it doesn't use the traditional Pong scoring system (you know, 1 point for knocking it past the other player) but some bizarro system that almost always gives the computer double the points you have, no matter how close you are in "goals". I was leading 5-3 at one point and somehow managed to be behind the computer by a hundred points. Which is... interesting. But then again, so is the fact that I'm still playing this game.

More tomorrow, I SWEAR.

Posted at 11:07 PM

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