Right now I’m watching my husband and Veck’s boyfriend play Punisher on Xbox. This has to be one of the most fantastically violent video games I have ever seen. Way beyond the scope of Grand Theft Auto in any of its incarnations. So far we’ve seen a guy tossed into a woodchipper, a guy eaten alive by pirhanas, a guy burned alive in a crematory oven, the list goes on and on. We think the game’ll be pulled off the shelves very soon.
I’m also working on Corporal Flapjack’s Website for Chris and Sarah’s wedding gift. One of them, anyway, since I keep forgetting to GET them a gift. Yeah, I suck. Here’s the Corporal meeting Nathan. I’m trying to decide just how to do the site. Embedding Gallery…actually, I think I just figured it out. I can edit the sidebar of the html wrap in Gallery to show the php of a weblog we can use. Sweet! Yay for late night rambling. Anyrate, the Corporal’s site will be cool. Sarah and Chris have chronicled the journeys of Corporal Flapjack since his emancipation from the tundras of Cananada.
Life’s suddenly picked up a lot of speed. I have classes in Durham on Wednesdays now, so I spent the whole day there. Work just bumped up to 20 hours a week. Fencing three days a week. Then there’s this whole comic strip thing that a positive response I certainly didn’t expect. It’s certainly a fun project, re-learning how to draw, then learning the tools and techniques of coloring in Photoshop.
We also got a shitload of snow (two feet!). Revere, where Rena lives, got THIRTY SIX INCHES. For those of you who are math impaired (me) that’s three feet. THREE FEET. Veck’s nose would just be above that amount of snow…okay, she isn’t that short. But still. THREE FEET!
Okay, my ass has fallen asleep. The boys have commandeered the couch for their Xbox playing and the floor is hard even through the pillow.
January 26th, 2005 at 3:02 am
“My husband”! It must be so weird to say that!
January 26th, 2005 at 8:12 am
Punisher, eh? I’ll have to find time to look into it. Is it more disturbing than Manhunt? The violence in that one, while being fairly graphic, wasn’t what made it so disturbing. It was more the whole plotline and feel of the game, all the quiet time of splinter cell, but you got rewarded by gory death scenes that got grosser the better you were at sneaking up on your victim. The first levels are all high and mighty with you being hunted and hunting white supremists, but it’s not long before that degrades into killing Mexicans and the mentally retarded.
For serious.
Oh, and hey at least you’re not the kind of bad at wedding gifts that buys one and then lets it sit on your coffee table for a week because you haven’t made it to the post office yet.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:08 am
O_o That’s obscene. I had heard something about Manhunt, but not that it was that bad.
I’m really looking forward to more ADHD. I should know that comics can sneak the hell up on you. All of a sudden you wake up one day and say, “Oh my, I’m doing a comic.”
March 6th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
[sarcasm]
Hmm.. Apparently nothing important has happened in the life of Mrs. Nathan since January.
[subtle hint] UPDATE! [/subtle hint][/sarcasm]
March 7th, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Why does an entry from late January now bear a date of March 6 (on the front page)? Do you think this will fool us? :p