Half-Life 2 delayed

Jul 30, 2003 by Mike Browne in Downers | 3 Comments

Wouldn't you know it? A game I've been jonesing for is going to be delayed in its release. How much do you want to bet the release comes right before Christmas.

See you Bob!

Jul 28, 2003 by Mike Browne in Downers | 1 Comment

CBC News: Bob Hope dead at 100

More on BC's Missing Women

Jul 21, 2003 by Mike Browne in Downers | Add comment

CBC News: Pickton probe expanded to wetlands
As Carol and I were coming back from the Shuswap (more on the Shuswap debacle later) we decided to return to Maple Ridge through Abbotsford and Mission. As soon as we left downtown Mission we hit almost standstill traffic. I thought it was an accident on the highway, but it turned out to be the RCMP and forensic anthropologists sifting through a bog just outside of town. There were TV crews, onlookers and cops everywhere.

I still find it insanely creepy that these murders had been happening right under our noses for so long.

That's gotta sting

Jul 14, 2003 by Mike Browne in Downers | 7 Comments

Man cuts off penis, eats it
July 13, 2003

A MALAYSIAN man sliced off his own penis, then fried and ate it after taking hallucinatory pills that caused him to hear voices urging him to mutilate himself, police said today.

The 34-year-old man claimed he only realised what he had done when he saw blood oozing from his crotch, said a police spokesman in the town of Sitiawan, 300km north of Kuala Lumpur.

The man had taken hallucinatory pills before sleeping on Friday and awoke hearing voices telling him to chop off his penis and devour it, the spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.

He was hospitalised in stable condition, the national news agency Bernama reported.

The man had recently been released from a drug rehabilitation centre, Bernama said.

The Associated Press

My gaming computer died

Jul 13, 2003 by Mike Browne in Downers | 5 Comments

I'm calling it. Time of death 1000hrs, July 13, 2003.
Thanks to Matt S, computer neurosurgeon extraordinaire, for his assistance via MSN Messnger during the oh-so exhaustive resuscitation attempts.
Good-bye sweet 'puter. You will be missed.
Can you say upgrade? New CPU, Motherboard and case time.