No, that’s not how that saying goes, but whatever. Basically, I have been MIA for the last 5-6 days because Verizon had some trouble on their end but they had to come out here to figure it out so I’m behind in, well, everything. Did I get anything important done without the internet? If you count being caught up on sleep, then yes. And that’s about it. I have to go see what all I missed, I hope it wasn’t much.
So, a lot of gaming is going on currently. Star Trek Online finally released the other day and I was there to greet it with an awkward out-stretched hand of uneasy peace. Cryptic has a lot of work to do if they want to keep Star Trek fans of any generation happy, but it can only get better from this point onward, right? Maybe I’m just an optimist, I guess. But if STO doesn’t put out, I always have Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 to fall back on! ME2 does for ME what Diablo 2 did for Diablo, in the sense that the sequel takes all the good out of the original and makes it ten-times better. I’m enjoying my time back on the Normandy and I can only play through the game over and over waiting for the conclusion to this fantastic space opera BioWare was gracious enough to share with the world.
On the other side of that, PAX East has sold out of 3-day passes! But lucky me I have connections and will be attending with some old guy who doesn’t want to grow up quite yet whom we’ll just call “Dad”. So, you can expect some posts about my trip to PAX East coming in late march, and hopefully I won’t fail as much as my other projects. Yeah.
In other, blog-related news. I need a new theme. I bore of looking at this one. And I need a logo. The gear is not really lazy, is it?
Okay, yes, posting new articles and what-nots is slow, but I blame Runes of Magic. And Michael Jackson dying 
. In the meantime, I’ve still been keeping an eye out for some cool techy and geeky stuff to be had across the net, and I found some, so let’s talk a bit, and I even have clips for you!
First, Google finally announced its Chrome OS for netbooks coming towards the end of 2010. There were whispers of the idea before, but now, it’s true, and personally while I don’t want another OS to want to check out, I’m very interested in the idea that Google is making an OS. Mind boggling, I know. From the post on Google’s blog, “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.” Like I said, I’m interested. So interested I just might have to get another low-end computer to throw it on. Why? Well, sure as hell not because of my coding experience which, for the most part, does not exists, but because I can. If the Chrome OS is anything like the browser, maybe, just maybe, Microsoft will have to step up.
Read the full post on the Official Google Blog.
Next up, ‘Penn & Teller: Bullshit!’ is ready to get Jack Thompson on a ‘Television is evil!’ tirade. While news that, in their seventh season of ‘Bullshit!’, Penn & Teller would be covering video games in a early episode is nothing new, the fact is that this episode is to air tomorrow(Thursday) night at 10PM EST. There’s even a small clip of it that I’m sure will make Jacky Boy a tad bit upset. I love these guys.
Obviously this guy hasn’t heard of a cleric. Gawd wut a n00b!!1!
Finally, what do you get when you try to bring the popular Valve-developed video game, Portal, back to the 80s? You get a nostalgic nerd-gasm. True story, watch the clip.
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Phew. Good stuff, right? Anyway, you can check out more at Cymon’s Games.
Oh, so now you get the title, right? 
So, with all three of these little news tidbits, one can only wonder when Jack Thompson will become an underground, experimental test subject for Goggle’s new OS?