Sixty-six years ago, British and American soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy, following airborne units that had parachuted in the night before.  It was June 6, D-Day.  This event has been memorialized in one of the hardest levels ever to appear in a shooter campaign: Point-du-Hoc

According to The New York Times, approximately 2.6E8 iPads have been sold since the thing launched.  The rate of iPad sales is growing exponentially.  By July, there will be an iPad for every man, woman, and Krogan on the planet.  By next year, there will be so many iPads, that the

It's Memorial Day in America.  Let's remember some of the great heros of an earlier time who have fought to protect us from Nazis, demons, aliens, or other trans-dimensional beings bent on conquest.  List of heros follows, with their war in parenthesis:

I'm on sabbatical (means "AFK").

Recognizing that the above statement wouldn't make for much of a blog, I'll start rambling off the top of my head.  I'm not going to type this in Word and then edit it. I'm just going to start typing here and stop when I'm done.

This is a long publication, so I'll do my gaming tie-in first. The Civil War is an era infrequently visited by shooters, which seem to gravitate towards World War II, the near future, or space marines.

Some years ago, in the PX at Ft. Campbell, I saw a Civil War-themed shoote

Next week, I'll be going away on some business, which means no Xbox.  Prior to these sort of things, I pick out some PC games to play.  Since I don't really buy PC games anymore, these are always older games.

I've started playing through Homeworld:

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For the first time ever, I'm posting a Thought of the Day: Gaming here, but not on GameSpot.  Why?  I'm suspended for three days on GameSpot.  Why?  I posted this in the Off Topic forum, in a thread about the New York city terrorist incident:

Anyone who knows me well is aware that I'm a watch enthusiast. I can tell you about movements, complications, and all manner of errata when it comes to watches. If you're thinking about buying a watch, I can recommend brands or pieces for various activities at various price points.

Followup to the Wall of Shame in our last publication.

In case you didn't read it: A misguided poster claimed that he does not care what other people think about him, at all in the slightest way. This Inductee, MushroomWig, criticized me for giving a damn what other people th

Some people, especially younger people, feel they need to label themselves in certain ways, regardless of whether or not anything in their life actually fits that label. For example, a teenager will decide, overnight, that's he's now a "skater" or some such. This kid goes out and buys a bunch of