Mood:

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You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 72% Apocalypse 65% Magneto 60% The Joker 60% Lex Luthor 56% Mr. Freeze 53% Venom 53% Dark Phoenix 53% Riddler 51% Two-Face 50% Green Goblin 42% Juggernaut 42% Catwoman 37% Kingpin 34% Mystique 26% Poison Ivy 23%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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Mood:

There are 3 people in this house who are still wrapping presents and IT’S CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON! The kids are being extraordinarily patient considering they got up 3 hours ago and only got to open one present each so far, and their stockings are still sitting untouched by the fireplace, but COME ON!

Mood:

I’ve mentioned to a few people how open source (free!) Battle for Wesnoth is very reminiscent of Warlords II. It’s old-school turn-based strategy on a hex map with medieval weapons and magic. I’d played v1.0 and the beta of v1.2 was much better but it had some issues. Now v1.2 is a stable release as of 2 days ago, so go get it!

Mood:

I was reading Gamespy’s blurb for Half-Life 2: Episode One’s nomination for the Game of the Year and they were talking about things I don’t remember happening in that game. Then I realized: I never finished Episode One! I got to the underground area where I had to use my flashlight all the time and then got distracted by things like Titan Quest.

The problem with Steam is that you have to run it before you can see all the games available. I actually have a half-dozen games in there I installed but haven’t fully played!

So if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be a little busy for a while…

Mood: :borg:

In the category of DUH:

Mood:

Tonight was the company Christmas party, and they decided to have karaoke as the entertainment. This was originally perceived as a bad thing(tm) but people got into it after the ice was broken by a brave few.

They had Oscar-like statuettes for the winners of the four categories: solo, duets, group and most entertaining. About an hour into it the most entertaining was only because of how bad some of the people could sing (although some were quite good, so the best solo was already sewn up) so I tossed my name in. I almost didn’t make it, as there were 9 in the waiting list and they only wanted 1 or 2 more songs before judging would start, but the crowd demanded I get up there because several waiting had already taken a turn, and I think they were curious to how well I would do.

The song? O Holy Night…
…by Eric Cartman. On my knees.

Winner!

Got a company t-shirt too.

Unfortunately there is probably no video record of this, as I heard later that everyone was laughing so hard the camera couldn’t stay pointed at me.

There was also a random draw for all contestants and I won a new iPod Nano. My car pool buddy Wiley won a dual-screen portable DVD player, and since my wife and I already have iPods and his wife was all about the Nano, we traded. Given that it was just the 2 GB Nano we definitely got the better end of the deal.

Hey, don’t knock unicorns!