Homeward bound... I wish I was...

    As luck would have it, I was too tired to go to the docs for the respirator exam this morning. I put this ordeal off until next week, the long 4 night work week. I'm closing up today's gaming blog a bit early to give me time to clean up and pack up the apartment before tomorrow's long ride home.
   I was disappointed to find that my favorite cheap inexpensive cigar from Holt's is no longer available. I had to switch to a slightly more expensive but not necessarily better brand. I had gotten accustomed to ordering the 'Bottom Shelf' cigars... I'll try the other brand this coming week and let you know how they are.


 

   No Call of Duty news this morning. I assume things will pick up as the final tidbits about Call of Duty: Black Ops are doled out to us during the pre-launch hype. And, of course, there's Medal of Honor to look forward to in October.
   Today's featured Modern Warfare 2 vid is the always entertaining Junkyard racking up some FFA kills with the AK-47. The second vid is an MW2 lucktage set to music by director AllShamNoWow. Moving on...

• Battlefield: Bad Company: Vietnam multiplayer demo vid embedded on BASHandSlash.
• Tokyo Game Show Medal of Honor previews and hands on: The Escapist; Device.
• BASHandSlash also has a list of Medal of Honor Tier 1 PC servers. 
• Medal of Honor 'not about the Taliban'. 

• Halo: Reach outsells Halo 3, but not GTA IV or Modern Warfare 2. All's right with the world... 
• Helium's Halo: Reach campaign guide.
• John Milius-inspired shooter Homefront delayed until March 2011.
• Microsoft responds to Halo: Reach disc read errors. Call 1-800-4MY-XBOX.
• PS3s getting 3D Blu-Ray playback 21 September 2010.
• THQ: Online Pass 'confirmed suspicions' about used sales.

• Astronauts' fingernails falling off due to glove design.
• Scariest video in the name of science. Not for those with fear of heights...
• Key mechanism behind sleep discovered.
• Prehistoric bird sets wingspan record. Squawwwwwk!

• Are glasses putting you off 3D TV?
• Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet unveiled.
• The downside of Twitter for celebrities.
• Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury.
• September 19th: International Talk like a Pirate Day. Arrrrrr!