Impressive really - it broke the records that Halo 3 set for opening day sales and opening week sales.

The subplot involves a potentially hostile takeover by EA. As the article states, its a $2b deal for the parent company, Take 2 Interactive. Seeing as the offer falls short of the trading price I think this is absolutely frivolous. They compare it to MSFT and Yahoo, but at least in MSFT's case they are offering well above the trading price. I don't see EA getting a sniff unless they are willing to pay a reasonable premium for an obviously hot commodity.

I've been trying to use the webcam on my new work laptop and I finally got my first work candid -



Not bad for a guy who hasn't slept due to his neighbors noiseathon last night, in combination with not showering or shaving, and basically putting on whatever was on the floor this morning. For a little built-in webcam its not so bad really.

I'm thinking of a cruel trick to get even - like blasting prog rock out of the windows at 1pm when THOSE fuckers are trying to sleep. I'll be having my revenge and when I do its going to be epic.

This is primarily for anyone addicted to scandal.

I'm trying to scoop that picture out of my head with a spoon, regardless of the fact that its 30 year old news. The last time someone peeled back the Depends undergarments to get to the honey pot is yet to be determined.

I get Stereogum's weekly "Gumdrop," which is essentially a newsletter that contains articles, interviews, giveaways, etc. Stereogum is not my favorite source of information - I essentially read nothing and only enter the free giveaway. Until this week.



While my favorite parts of Dark Side of the Moon are in fact Gilmour's as well, Roger Waters performing Dark Side live IS NOT akin to Ringo performing Sgt. Pepper's. Ben Gibbard, a respected and dare I say idolized musician and leader of Death Cab, is a fucking idiot for saying that. It makes me cringe to think of his worshipers nodding like drones at those words... pathetic.

Firstly, Roger Waters wrote the album and was always the leader and primary song writer of Pink Floyd. Without Gilmour there is something missing, but for a musician to not be able to acknowledge the right of the owner and original creator of the music to perform it is absurd. Secondly, since Ben Gibbard made the comparison and I did not - Ringo Starr did not write Sgt. Peppers therefore there is no direct comparison anyway.

It was good to see virtually all reaction to the article along the same lines as my own. It was so blatantly obvious that I'd be shocked otherwise.

What really caught my eye was this - the opening sentence of the article.

The boys of DCFC are gearing up for a busy festival season -- Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Pemberton -- where they'll be playing songs from the forthcoming Narrow Stairs, which hasn't leaked yet.

HAHA! Hasn't leaked yet? I've had it for a few weeks now. Either these morons are counting on finding it on their s00pur l33t private music sharing sites, or are simply not resourceful enough. Trust me, you can find almost anything if you know what you are doing.

Between licking Ben Gibbard's balls and stating an untruth as a fact albeit out of ignorance rather than intentionally telling a lie... now you know why I rarely read what these amateurs write.

Greetings from the French side of the river - Gatineau is directly across the river from the Ottawa, the Canadian capital. This is my first trip to the area. It was nice to see the Parliament building, and really they do have a nice riverwalk area. Its strange though - once you cross the river literally no signage is written in English. I thought by law in this country the signage must be bilingual... what gives?

In any case, you don't need to know what "ARRET" means when you are staring at an octoganal shaped red sign. Essentially the river divides Ontario and Quebec. You really do get an appreciation here of the vast bureaucracy put in place to manage a country with a tenth of the population of our own - I'm on the 7th floor of a Holiday Inn staring out of my window at an enormous government building, and this is just one of many in the area.

We are working for about two hours, and driving home for about five and a half. We'll cross the border at the 1000 islands bridge - having never lived outside of NYS I've never actually driven through this stretch of the state so I'm actually looking forward to it. Hopefully I can see the Adirondacks in the distance, but I don't really know if they are visible from 81... here's to hoping!