A Very Happy Birthday to...

I'd like to send out a very happy birthday to Traci Lords, who turned 38 today, but who will always be 17 in our imaginations.

Oh, yeah, and I turned 40 today, too.

Quake 4 for Linux ROXS YOUR TOES OFF!

Yes, I got Quake 4. The binaries are available on-line and Omaha kindly granted me her Mac OSX DVD of the game that she got as a review copy, so let me tell you right now that Quake 4 is the game that ID should have put up against Half Life 2, because Quake 4 totally rocks. The graphics are smoother than the ID Doom 3 Linux port, the storyline richer (hey, it's a frakkin' Return to Stroggos, for Set's sake!) and the engine seems to be stronger. On my AMD 2000 with an Nvidia card that's at least two generations old, it still works incredibly well. The monsters are nasty, the visuals gross in a "war is Hell" way, and the sound effects scary in a "kick ass and take names, Marine!" way.

Excellent. I have hours of playtime to kill.