James M. Burke

Yeah, I too am hooked.  I never thought I would be — I avoided it like crazy.  One of the guys I work with has been playing for quite some time and him (along with a few of his friends) convinced me to try it.  So, two weeks ago I went into a local EB Games store and picked up a 14-day trial DVD for $1.99.  The good thing is that the trial even includes the Mac version.  It plays beautifully on my MacBook Pro - in some parts of the game I get over 130 frames per second. 

No, this doesn’t mean that I quit Halo 2 — I just now play two games and realize even more that I have a very understanding fiancee.  :)  If you are a WoW addict and are on the Lothar server, my character is Jiralhanae (from Halo 2, which in Korean means something like “stupid aggressive lunatic”).

On Saturday, I went with some co-worker friends to the NC State vs Akron football game. When I was in college, I attended just about every NMSU home game. But, since I’m not from the area, I really didn’t care much about the game — just thought it’d be a great excuse to go hang out with the guys. It really turned out to be a great game! Initially, I thought it was going to be boring, since I had never heard of the University of Akron…but they have a great team! So great in fact, that they won 20-17 with the game winning touchdown scored in the last 3 seconds of the 4th quarter. NC State gained the lead in the 4th making it 17-14 with 1:07 left on the clock. The Akron team was able to make it all the way down the field and score a touchdown before the time ran out. There has been great controversy over the last TD, because this is the still-frame of the final TD:

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