Just Fourteen!
December 10, 2008 by Douglas · Leave a Comment
Holy smokes fourteen days to finish shopping before Chistmas! I completely neglected my task of reporting awesome things you can buy for the greatest day on Earth – I am truly ashamed.
On the lighter side, I did play a killer game today on my friend Josh’s XBox 360: Gears of War 2. Wow, this game is pretty intense! I repeatedly had my rear end handed to me by the War Gears and couldn’t aim worth a darn. However, in my own manner of gloating, I did only need reviving two or three times compared to Josh’s eight or nine times!
Then again he was taking the lead and acting like a true friend by being my own personal meat shield. So kudos to Josh.
By the way, Josh is the not-to-shabby graphic designer I have in my “links of interest” slash “Worthwhile Sites”, there on the left. If you are in need of some graphics that need designing – HE is your man!
So Gears of War 2 and Far Cry 2 are my double fisted picks for today’s awesome gifts for Christmas 2008! Far Cry is a nice little game that is going to run screaming hot on my new rig he is helping me build. And by “helping me build” I mean he is letting me plug one or two things in every now and then and making sure I don’t fry my motherboard.
We’re talking four gigs of RAM and a one gig ATI graphics card! I know, right? Some dual core AMD Athlon 64 whosie-whatzit and 500 GB hard drive. I can never fill up a 500 GB hard drive, so naturally I want two. I also want two flat panel monitors. Two? Yeah, two. Cause all the hard core programmers and multi-taskers have two. Even retarded ColdFusion-programming liberals use two monitors! Why not me?
Right now I am using some 15.6 inch CRT monitor from the early 90s – and it sucks monkey bits. My much larger (I think 19″) flat panel monitor I had before fried after taking a trip to my in-laws. I’ve had more computers die after a trip there than I can almost afford. The solution might be to stop going altogether… hey I think I’m on to something here!
So, Gears of War 2 – go buy it and give it to some impressionable child ASAP. He’ll love you for eternity – or at least until you squelch his creative juices by being a responsible adult or parent, thus elevating the Generation Next-angst that he has already begun to acquire and manipulate.
Enjoy!
I'm an independent web developer and copywriter. When I'm not gazing into the seductive mistress of the internet, I'm helping to raise my two daughters (1 teen, 1 pre-teen) and hyperactive 5 year-old kung-fu master son. Blissfully and happily married to my wife, Kristen - as we try to survive the epic daily battles of suburban life in Maple Valley, WA.