Pope Palpatine

The Pope celebrated Christmas this year by dressing up as Santa Claus…

Then choking some kids by using the force.

Broken Window

So the O’Briens Glass guy just left. Entire window needs to be replaced. I’m not just talking glass here, I mean the whole 2+ metres by 1.5 metres metal frame, take off the woodwork, the whole bit.
Should be able to be done by February.

Cool.

Xbox Goodness

OK, aside from the graphics, sound, games, etc, the best thing about the 360 is the Arcade.
Trail versions of all the games can be downloaded and played. I’m into Texas Hold ‘Em at the moment, UNO is fun. They have Streetfighter 2 as well. Imagine a 2 player streetfighter game with someone in another country.
Then there’s the marketplace. Downloads game trailers, game demos, “insider” type videos, music videos, movie trailers, soon TV shows and full-length movies.

Just getting back to the graphics, imagine cutscenes from games on the PS2 and original Xbox. Specifically the Rainbow Six games. Now, imagine if the whole game looked like that, all the time. That’s Rainbow Six: Vegas. The characters mouths move, realtime, forming words, when they speak. Not at scripted points, mind you, random. Gears of War is the same. It’s like playing a cutscene. Damn pretty.

But the arcade? Best idea they’ve come up with since DOS.

Merry Christmas

Hope y’all have a great day.

Here’s what my wife got me:

Here’s what my neighbours got me:

See how generous they were? The handed these out to the whole street.

I like my wife’s present bestest.