Oddball Update

Our travel date nears, and so, as you might expect, preparations for said trip have just about reached fever pitch around here.

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone — albeit slightly belated, particularly if you’re in the eastern hemisphere. Ironically, 2008 is the year of the rat.

Thoughts, observations, etc. on playing The Orange Box for the Xbox 360:

Every time Dr. Eli Vance talked, I shouted out “Benson!” and began singing the Benson theme to myself.

The Shacknews headline reads: “Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Releasing Tomorrow; This is Real and We Are Not Shitting You.”
So says George Broussard, longtime president of 3D Realms, who today announced that a Very Special Teaser Trailer of the now-joketacular Duke Nukem Forever will be released tomorrow around noon, Central Time.

Next week, on or around December 4th, Microsoft will be pushing out the December 2007 dashboard update to Xbox 360 owners. The Xbox Team today has posted the official changelog for the update, so you can see exactly what we’ll be getting.

I’m completely enthralled by Mass Effect, the new sci-fi adventure game for the Xbox 360. It’s simply one of the most engaging single-player experiences to hit the Xbox this year, along with BioShock.

In the last few days, my crushing burden of side work has largely fallen away. In fact, this whole week has wound up being less hectic, more manageable, yet productive at the same time.