It's all about the good karma..
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
C&C on the PSP. Hillary C. on the GTA.
Frak! The Command & Conquer series is getting ported to the PSP! Lookit Lookit! I've still to decide which handheld to go for, though; as the thought of playing an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game with buttons, even with that navi-stick-thingy the PSP has, looks like a daunting task to even start learning. Hmmm, but EA's behind it, and so far most of their game's interfaces are designed pretty well. Still. Portable RTS gaming. I like.
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Sen. Hillary C. is pointing the finger on the GTA series for encouraging kids to have sex with prostitutes and kill them. Hmmm. It's another case of the crime-noir genre and the FPS genre getting the blame for probable causes and motivators for crime and mischief caused by the people who play them. I've played through all the GTA games, and I haven't felt like killing anyone on the streets or out of random, well not when I'm in traffic and a stupid asshole cuts in front of me, or a Jeepney decides to unload/load passengers in the middle of the street, anyway. Hehe! Still. They are looking at the wrong direction. What's funny about this is Rockstar's (the people behind the GTA series) response of agreeing to add condoms to the inventory in the next GTA installment -- without which, apparently players won't be able to have sex with a prostitute. Haha! Talk about sex education.
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Sen. Hillary C. is pointing the finger on the GTA series for encouraging kids to have sex with prostitutes and kill them. Hmmm. It's another case of the crime-noir genre and the FPS genre getting the blame for probable causes and motivators for crime and mischief caused by the people who play them. I've played through all the GTA games, and I haven't felt like killing anyone on the streets or out of random, well not when I'm in traffic and a stupid asshole cuts in front of me, or a Jeepney decides to unload/load passengers in the middle of the street, anyway. Hehe! Still. They are looking at the wrong direction. What's funny about this is Rockstar's (the people behind the GTA series) response of agreeing to add condoms to the inventory in the next GTA installment -- without which, apparently players won't be able to have sex with a prostitute. Haha! Talk about sex education.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Rainbow Six the movie
See. It's starting I tell you. I know the R6 novel came years before the game came out. But man, I hope they at least pull this off decently as the whole R6 franchise has been one of my favourite series to play.
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Monday, March 28, 2005
Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne shortage..
Apparently, there's a shortage of original copies for the Warcraft 3 expansion: Frozen Throne. Now that's a first. I was looking for one earlier just to play DoTA online. Grrr. I guess with DoTA's popularity these days (well almost every gamer I know plays it) people are actually opting to buy legit copy's just to play DoTA. I know I'm buying it for that, too. Hehe! Plus add to that, the games (Warcraft 3, and Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne) aren't as expensive as your typical legit copy. WC3 goes for less than 1 thousand and the expansion for even less than that, I think around 850 pesos. Not bad if you ask me. Typical games right now can go for as high as 2 thousand per copy.
Interesting Warcraft-related news: Last I heard World of Warcraft (WoW) has around 1.5 MILLION, yep, MILLION subscribers right now. So that's $50 for the game, $30 for a 60-day prepaid card. Hmm...Do the numbers. Blizzard has made $50 MILLION off of the game alone, and they earn around $ 45 Million every two months. WoW WoW Wee. That I think is in North America alone, I can't wait to see the numbers when they put up servers in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. Brrr...
The movie Alone in the Dark which is based on the game Alone in the Dark, is showing, it'll stink, I'm sure. Alien-vs-Predator (AVP) (brr, dare I mention this movie here) was also based on the game with the same title, stunk as hell (I can't even understand why they bothered to release a special-edition copy of the DVD). Plus there's a DOOM movie coming up, with Karl Urban (LOTR's Eomer) cast as the main character. Hay nako.
First comics. Now video games!
My cousin Tasha has recently been baking batches and batches of überly good brownies. Crunchy on the outside, soft and semi-wet inside. Yum. Diabetic. ME. Fuck. I've to stay away from her brownies. Hmmmm *sniff*sniff* I can smell them all the way from my room. Damn. Hmmm lemme just get some..
Interesting Warcraft-related news: Last I heard World of Warcraft (WoW) has around 1.5 MILLION, yep, MILLION subscribers right now. So that's $50 for the game, $30 for a 60-day prepaid card. Hmm...Do the numbers. Blizzard has made $50 MILLION off of the game alone, and they earn around $ 45 Million every two months. WoW WoW Wee. That I think is in North America alone, I can't wait to see the numbers when they put up servers in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. Brrr...
The movie Alone in the Dark which is based on the game Alone in the Dark, is showing, it'll stink, I'm sure. Alien-vs-Predator (AVP) (brr, dare I mention this movie here) was also based on the game with the same title, stunk as hell (I can't even understand why they bothered to release a special-edition copy of the DVD). Plus there's a DOOM movie coming up, with Karl Urban (LOTR's Eomer) cast as the main character. Hay nako.
First comics. Now video games!
My cousin Tasha has recently been baking batches and batches of überly good brownies. Crunchy on the outside, soft and semi-wet inside. Yum. Diabetic. ME. Fuck. I've to stay away from her brownies. Hmmmm *sniff*sniff* I can smell them all the way from my room. Damn. Hmmm lemme just get some..
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Saturday, March 26, 2005
GT4 and my Ate's [adult_swim] 15 seconds of fame..
I've been playing a bit of GT4 lately, and my the improvements to the physics and graphics engine, hell the whole game! I mean yeah, it's taken this long for it to come out but man, I played GT3 a LOT and seeing how GT4 plays now, and actually playing through it makes me see GT3 as just a game, and GT4 as a "real driving simulator". The stuff you can do to the cars, the tracks you can race in! Just thinking of the entire development process that went into this "simulator" makes me dizzy. Thing is I get soo absorbed with GT4, when I step into my car, fuck, I can't even notice the difference (aside from the obvious lack of invincibilty when I do crash into things, and my squirming when I hit a pothole). GT4 cars even consume gas, now! And I'm only 5.6% into the game! I can't wait to get to the Endurance races where I'll get to drive that 24-hour Nurburgring Nordschleife race! 24 hours! Driving! Non-stop. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to pull that off! I think Polyphonic Digital really made the "simulator" to be played non-stop 24/7. God. Brilliant.
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If you're from the US, and you were tuned in to Cartoon Network's [adult_swim] channel, you might've caught my cousin Alethea's name in one of their infomercial thingy's. Here's a couple of screen caps of my cousin's 15 seconds of fame! Mwahaha! Coolness.
It's a biggie for me since she's actually the Alethea the informercial thingy's talking about. :-)
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If you're from the US, and you were tuned in to Cartoon Network's [adult_swim] channel, you might've caught my cousin Alethea's name in one of their infomercial thingy's. Here's a couple of screen caps of my cousin's 15 seconds of fame! Mwahaha! Coolness.
It's a biggie for me since she's actually the Alethea the informercial thingy's talking about. :-)
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Oh look at this. Metal Gear Acid, just in time for the PSP release. That and GT4 for the PSP. *drool*
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
!!!!!!!
I've been thinking of how to rant out my frustrations about my thesis, but I'm too tired, and I don't think feel like blogging about it anymore. Plus added to that, I won't be able to join my family in Palawan tomorrow because of this.
Instead. Lemme just say, seeing this at the mall the other day made my pants wet, and my wallet whimper.
Instead. Lemme just say, seeing this at the mall the other day made my pants wet, and my wallet whimper.
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Monday, March 21, 2005
Vendetta for V
Ramon's got a mini-mission going on about having everyone he knows read the Alan Moore masterpiece: V for Vendetta before the movie comes out in November. Coolness. Pimping! Well, this is my way of joining in his mini-crusade. YOU! YES YOU! Should pick up a copy of V for Vendetta ASAP. It's less than a thousand pesos ($20)! If you don't know where to get it locally, leave a comment, I'll hook you up.
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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Does anyone know the schedule for the Pacquiao fight later? Hmmm..Head on over to Star Sports for the Petronas F1 Grand Prix. 2PM. If you tune in earlier, you can catch the qualifying round at around 10AM.
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My mom called me up yesterday morning sound terribly worried about her laptop. Apparently, a browser window opened up and was telling her that her computer was in danger of being hacked into, some virus or what not -- typical spam-ad -- so there she was close to being hysterical asking half-awake me what to do. I tell her it's just a spam scam, I was going to tell her to run her spyware scanner but I was half scared she'd ask what that was and how to run it -- so I just told her to close the browser window and bring her laptop over for it's usual weekly cleaning. What a way to wake up, huh. I remember managing a snicker while listening to her, and she goes: "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!". One for my books, I tell 'ya.
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My mom called me up yesterday morning sound terribly worried about her laptop. Apparently, a browser window opened up and was telling her that her computer was in danger of being hacked into, some virus or what not -- typical spam-ad -- so there she was close to being hysterical asking half-awake me what to do. I tell her it's just a spam scam, I was going to tell her to run her spyware scanner but I was half scared she'd ask what that was and how to run it -- so I just told her to close the browser window and bring her laptop over for it's usual weekly cleaning. What a way to wake up, huh. I remember managing a snicker while listening to her, and she goes: "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!". One for my books, I tell 'ya.
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Friday, March 18, 2005
delayed
Apparently my thesis defense was moved to Tuesday next week. Hassle. Nakakabitin. Oh well, more time to prepare I guess..
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Flight vol.2 is also delayed -- it's being pushed back to April according to the site.
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I just picked up a couple of books today. Project: Superior, 100 Bullets: Samurai vol.7, Strange Day, and Point Blank. Can't wait to dig into these books, specially Project: Superior which I've been looking forward to for so long. It's an anthology of sorts, and a couple of my favourite artists are in it (James Jean, Paul Pope).
While I'm at the topic of comic books, if you're by the Magallanes area, and you're fancying a trip to a comic-book store -- drop by Druid's Keep. It's owned by a very friendly chap named Felix, he carries a lot of mainstream (DC, Marvel) comic books and a couple of Indie titles (YEAH!), plus if you're into collectible toys (action figures) he has a LOT of them plus I reckon he's got one of the best priced toys around. If you're into the card-game VS, there's a Saturday group which plays there. He's closed on Mondays, though.
Druid's Keep
3rd Floor
Gateway Centre, Magallanes (It's the building where Rustan's Supermarket, and Starbucks is, right beside the Windmill Building thingy)
Tel Nos. 854-5332
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Flight vol.2 is also delayed -- it's being pushed back to April according to the site.
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I just picked up a couple of books today. Project: Superior, 100 Bullets: Samurai vol.7, Strange Day, and Point Blank. Can't wait to dig into these books, specially Project: Superior which I've been looking forward to for so long. It's an anthology of sorts, and a couple of my favourite artists are in it (James Jean, Paul Pope).
While I'm at the topic of comic books, if you're by the Magallanes area, and you're fancying a trip to a comic-book store -- drop by Druid's Keep. It's owned by a very friendly chap named Felix, he carries a lot of mainstream (DC, Marvel) comic books and a couple of Indie titles (YEAH!), plus if you're into collectible toys (action figures) he has a LOT of them plus I reckon he's got one of the best priced toys around. If you're into the card-game VS, there's a Saturday group which plays there. He's closed on Mondays, though.
Druid's Keep
3rd Floor
Gateway Centre, Magallanes (It's the building where Rustan's Supermarket, and Starbucks is, right beside the Windmill Building thingy)
Tel Nos. 854-5332
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
Lost pimping
Lost is premiering tonight on AXN. 9PM. Watch Watch!
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Pray for me and my groupmates. We're defending our thesis, again. Ciao.
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Pray for me and my groupmates. We're defending our thesis, again. Ciao.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
If you'll be in SF on the 11th or 15th, please watch Keka directed by Quark Henares. I loved the film, I got to meet the director recently, and this is my way of pimping his work. More details here.
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Saturday, March 12, 2005
busy busy busy.
Props to Ramon for playing such a hot-damn-set last night.
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Was able to see an actual magazine photoshoot today, which was a first for me. It was quite an experience, learned a lot of stuff about composition, framing, lighting, make-up, basically a lot about photography.
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Check out this gadget: the Epson P-2000. The photographer who was doing the shoot yesterday had it, and man my jaws dropped just checking out the capabilities and features of this thing! Man, I'd pick this over the iPod Photo anyday. Movie viewer, MP3 player, and Image tank all in one! Damn!
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Was able to see an actual magazine photoshoot today, which was a first for me. It was quite an experience, learned a lot of stuff about composition, framing, lighting, make-up, basically a lot about photography.
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Check out this gadget: the Epson P-2000. The photographer who was doing the shoot yesterday had it, and man my jaws dropped just checking out the capabilities and features of this thing! Man, I'd pick this over the iPod Photo anyday. Movie viewer, MP3 player, and Image tank all in one! Damn!
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
big pimping
So I'm having trouble playing my copy of GT4 on my PS2. I'm bringing it to the shop on Friday. Must be a sign, my thesis deadline is on Friday. Oh well.
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Ramon's going to be on NU107 this coming Friday. Tune in. 9PM. Beck. Bloc Party, and I'm sure a lot of über-cool stuff on his playlist. Listen! Listen!
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Apparently, my mom forgot where she placed the syringe for my insulin! Hahahaha! Yeah! I've 'til next week to prepare for that darned needle to enter my flesh! Grar!!
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The Black and White 2 site is online. Do hop on over, and check it out. And don't forget to drool. Fuck. Peter Molyneux is a genius.
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Ramon's going to be on NU107 this coming Friday. Tune in. 9PM. Beck. Bloc Party, and I'm sure a lot of über-cool stuff on his playlist. Listen! Listen!
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Apparently, my mom forgot where she placed the syringe for my insulin! Hahahaha! Yeah! I've 'til next week to prepare for that darned needle to enter my flesh! Grar!!
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The Black and White 2 site is online. Do hop on over, and check it out. And don't forget to drool. Fuck. Peter Molyneux is a genius.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
the night I might get insulin
My mom's arriving in about an hour. I'm keeping myself busy doing my documentation for the thesis.
I saw a box-full of insulin injectors. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I saw a box-full of insulin injectors. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Wireless me and podcast pimping
Our wireless network here at home is finally fixed. I've had to deal with intermittent disconnections every hour for a whole month; having to call up the guys who sold me the router and the guys over at PLDT -- looking around for fixes to the problem. Anyway, it turns out the modem PLDT issued to me two years ago wasn't compatible with the router I have (plus it was getting a bit old). So they sent a DSL guy over last Friday and had him change the modem (freaking PLDT charges for the packaging material na pala now! Talk about cost-cutting. I had to sign a release form and the price of the box, wire, cd, etc. were clearly indicated there! Crazy!) Anyways, Voila! I've been surfing/downloading/blogging comfortably around the house (apparently the wireless signal reaches up to the front of our house all the way from my room on the third floor, coolness) since Friday. So there. It's nice knowing I can get all my downloads and podcasts done without having to worry about disconnections every now and then.
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I've been listening to a lot of local AM radio lately. Well, I've actually ditched listening to local FM-radio stations completely since they all just sound the same, and play the same artists and their songs! Think having to listen to the same song every three hours.
Anyway. Yeah. AM radio just rules. I love learning about new stuff in politics, etc. from all these really credible (well they do sound credible, and some of the people who are on AM are reputable newscasters on TV) people. Now when I get to ride with our family driver, instead of him having to courteously turn to an FM station (like what he usually does when my brothers and cousins get driven around by him), we both enjoy the buzzing information from AM radio!
So onto something I've been into a lot lately. Podcasting. It's basically talk radio. Mumbo jumbo. Information overload. News. Culture. Brain Farts from the guy next door. Everything. And it's done by regular Joe's. And it's free! Uncensored, unbiased views on anything. And I've been practically addicted to it. I think I'm currently subscribed to about 20 podcasts. So yeah. So much for stating the obvious.
You don't have to own an iPod. Just download a Podcast aggregator which downloads the mp3's of the podcasts you like for you. I highly recommend iPodder, it's been the easiest to set up from the ones I've tried; and the user interface is pretty intuitive and all.
I just found two comic-related podcasts. Haven't really listened to them yet. One's done by the Collected Comics Library, checkout their podcast here, and the other one done by a couple of comicgeeks. For a bunch of podcast choices from whatever genre you fancy, head on over to podcastalley.
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I've been listening to a lot of local AM radio lately. Well, I've actually ditched listening to local FM-radio stations completely since they all just sound the same, and play the same artists and their songs! Think having to listen to the same song every three hours.
Anyway. Yeah. AM radio just rules. I love learning about new stuff in politics, etc. from all these really credible (well they do sound credible, and some of the people who are on AM are reputable newscasters on TV) people. Now when I get to ride with our family driver, instead of him having to courteously turn to an FM station (like what he usually does when my brothers and cousins get driven around by him), we both enjoy the buzzing information from AM radio!
So onto something I've been into a lot lately. Podcasting. It's basically talk radio. Mumbo jumbo. Information overload. News. Culture. Brain Farts from the guy next door. Everything. And it's done by regular Joe's. And it's free! Uncensored, unbiased views on anything. And I've been practically addicted to it. I think I'm currently subscribed to about 20 podcasts. So yeah. So much for stating the obvious.
You don't have to own an iPod. Just download a Podcast aggregator which downloads the mp3's of the podcasts you like for you. I highly recommend iPodder, it's been the easiest to set up from the ones I've tried; and the user interface is pretty intuitive and all.
I just found two comic-related podcasts. Haven't really listened to them yet. One's done by the Collected Comics Library, checkout their podcast here, and the other one done by a couple of comicgeeks. For a bunch of podcast choices from whatever genre you fancy, head on over to podcastalley.
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Friday, March 04, 2005
Oh god
It has finally reached our shores. And I want one.
And look at this! A special 2-disc edition! and a set which comes with shoes!
Damn.
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Oh and the F1 season kicks off tomorrow! 9:57AM Star Sports, F1 Foster's Australian Grand Prix Qualifying.
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Thursday, March 03, 2005
In which my kid brother gets Tekken Five-d
Johann just got Tekken 5 today. So, dinner will probably the last time I'll see him not playing...for a full week, at least.
Is it just me, or are the babes in videogames starting to look too real, hot.
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Uy! Musicplasma now has a "search-thingy" for directors, movies, and actors! Haven't been there in a long while -- nice to know it's still up.
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Sims 2: University
One of my favourite games last year just came out with an expansion (I'm thinking one of a gazillion possible expansions, given they follow suit with the original expansion sets of the original Sims). The Sims 2: University. Coolness. Now I just hope the local Datablitz honors my pre-order form which I really haven't paid for -- I get a free Sims 2: University mug kasi!
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Oh and some guy has this really insane idea of tweaking GPS devices on cars to help realize THE ULTIMATE RACING GAME! Which is pretty cool, if you ask me.
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Oh and some guy has this really insane idea of tweaking GPS devices on cars to help realize THE ULTIMATE RACING GAME! Which is pretty cool, if you ask me.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005
w.bloggar and stuff..
What do you use for blogging? I mean, do you go to your blogs's "dashboard" and post from there? Well I've been using w.bloggar for quite some time now, and it's been great! It supports a couple of popular blogging services (Livejournal, blogger, etc.) -- and it saves me the task of having to surf around for a piece of code to post an image or something (yeah, I'm a bit of the html/css/etc. idiot here). Anyway, try it!!
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New Template! Hehehe! Fickle fickle fickle. Trying to do something with the "sidebar-thing", too. Pimping stuff!
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Just saw the teaser for Lost while watching CSI on AXN last night. Pretty cool that it's (Lost) finding its way to our shores this early into the first season (I think there's around 5 more episodes before the series wraps up).
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New Template! Hehehe! Fickle fickle fickle. Trying to do something with the "sidebar-thing", too. Pimping stuff!
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Just saw the teaser for Lost while watching CSI on AXN last night. Pretty cool that it's (Lost) finding its way to our shores this early into the first season (I think there's around 5 more episodes before the series wraps up).
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Hey, and this is cool. Isotope's site gets a new "make-over" of sorts. Coolness. Just when I was getting used to the "red-afterglow-after-looking-at-their-site-for-1-long-minute" effect of the old Isotope site.
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