deer league of emusic slugs..

Hmm, the San Jose weather seems to be veering into the 'slightly hot' again. It's October, people, can't you get the precipitation deities in order already? *clap*

So, driving home from San Francisco on Tuesday after dark, I had a very unfortunate encounter with a deer on Interstate 280. The poor animal was standing in the middle lane looking confused, and while I managed to swerve to avoid it, it saw me at the last minute and ran into the side of my car, no mean feat when I was going about 60mph at the time :( So I fear the deer is no more, and there's some extra dents in my paintwork to remind me of my heinous act, doh.

Onto slightly happier, albeit more lunatic things, and I forgot to highlight this crazed law suit from a few days back - some people are suing Fox over the Alan Moore-based League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie (which is doing well overseas, btw), claiming "Fox commissioned Mr Moore to create the comic book as a "smokescreen" for poaching the idea." Hilarious. Neil Gaiman, via his journal, illuminates:

"I do love the idea of putting Alan on the witness stand, though, looming and huge like a yeti in a suit, to explain his creative processes. It's true that they started working on the film before The League was finished, but that was because Don Murphy snapped up League, based on (if I remember correctly) the first issue and the outline for the rest."

In other highly depressing news, Slashdot has a story this morning that Emusic.com has been bought out, and they're discontinuing the 'unlimited MP3s for 10 bucks a month' deal as a result - it's all the way down to '40 downloads' per month, actually. Well, I was once semi-obsessive about Emusic (see my old Emusic info-site for proof), but they stopped adding material quite as aggressively a while back, with a few notable exceptions, so I'm not even subscribing at this time. Still, a major shame, although I understand why they (Universal) might have been losing money on it, what with the kind of rabid downloaders 'all you can eat' attracts.

Finally, I got a working version of Metal Slug 2 for my arcade machine, at last, and despite more slowdown than I realised (emulators speed things up, huh?), it's an amazing romp through 2D heaven. The last level, complete with (*spoiler alert*) pseudo-Nazi alien experiments, is particularly choice, especially for the conspiracy theorists amongst us.