press release and wizard dies..

Hm, I've been pretty tied up all day writing a book synopsis for some shadowy fellows who might be interested in me, y'know, writing a book for them. Hopefully they'll like my angles, and won't opposite my hypotenuse. But regardless, I wish it was a slightly lazier Sunday. Oh well.

I guess I didn't mention it when it happened, earlier this week, but the quarterly results announcement for VA Software, the parent company of Slashdot, picked out Slashdot Games as one of the highlights for the quarter - July was the company's biggest month for advertising revenue ever, so it's neat that I helped contribute a coupla bucks to the kitty. Of course, the company's share price was once $300 or something insane, so it rising to $3 isn't such a big deal, but at least this means I can continue my clockwork-like games postings for a bit longer. Yay.

Oh, and finally, because I mentioned it in passing when talking about the Classic Gaming Expo on Slashdot, the author of the gaming-themed poetry book (!), Blue Wizard Is About To Die, sent me a promo copy. The tome is either genius or tragic, and I'm completely unable to tell which. A brief excerpt from the 'Bubble Bobble' illustrates this perfectly:

Bub and Bob
get da banana!
ICE CREAM! Explode
Mr.Enemy; BAD BAD BAD!

Wow. Just wow. And you haven't even read the extended Half-Life poem yet.