Pilot's Log

I just found out that Worldwide Game Day (WWGD) will happen on one of the days I plan to be in Florida (specifically, the Suncoast region that includes Tampa / St. Petersburg / Clearwater / Port Richey / Spring Hill / Brooksville etc.) so...if anybody knows any place in that general area that is participating I'd REALLY REALLY REALLY want to know about it! Enlighten me.

( Border Break! )

A new Japanese arcade video game that looks very MMO-ish. With the current state of console games these days, is a MMO like this possible now?

SEGA!

( An Ad Campaign Currently Running On US TV )

1) Being a Criminal Minds fan, I have to look askance when anybody says "Unsub".

2) My brother is a big-time Madden fan, as using an earlier version allowed him to perpetuate a virtual football league he and I and other friends started circa 1980. Before computers, we used a Coleco football game that consisted of a box with an electric light inside, illuminating translucent cards that represented offensive and defensive plays, plus spinners to randomly calculate yardage and success in field goal kicks.

The EA developers say that the models used in the commercial are basically the same ones developed for the Wii version of Madden 10.

3) Sustenance and Sustainability: It has been my belief for many years that when science concocts the first completely synthetic meat substitute, it would most resemble white-meat chicken, white-meat turkey or veal. Just an instinctive supposition, without any reasoning behind it. Artificial guys huckstering for real food--now. Artificial food--when?

On "Fresh Air" on National Public Radio they are doing a multipart story on fisheries and how overfishing is causing real problems both ecologically and economically. As much as I love to eat fish, and think I don't eat enough, I wonder if I'll have to give it up just because it will run out for a generation or more. Or worse, be gone for good. That farm-raised Tilapia from China doesn't seem so evil now.

( We Are Shown Why It Is Foolhardy To Trifle With Magic Users )--Courtesy Backward Compatible.

Aaron Williams' Backward Compatible:
( An Ace, With Something Up His Slee--Err...Collar? )

( A-Roving We Will Go! )

PS:
( Burton's Alice In Wonderland--The Full Frontal Nerdity View! )