Tough getting going this AM...

 Uzi GungalTM has excellent trigger discipline!

    Had a wonderful, if busy, Valentine's Day with my Pretty Gal. There are no words for how awesome it is to love and be loved they way Effie and I love each other. It's amazing to not have to do anything together other tha simply be together. I've never been happier in my entire life! And, truly, I've never known true happiness before. Everything before my darling Effie just pales by comparison! Effie, darling, I love you!! I will love you forever. Promise.

    As the 7 or 8 (LOL!) regular readers of the HQ may have noticed, I've occasionally included a Call of Duty related graphic, usually of a humorous nature. Lately, the CoD pics have been derivatives of the 'Scumbag Steve' meme currently popular on the internet. I've included the Know Your Meme link for it just in case you were wondering why hip-hop hats are appearing on Call of Duty pics.

Featured CoD: Black Ops Video

Uploaded 19 January 2011 on ONLYUSEmeBLADE

    Call of Duty Links:

 Scumbag Black Ops Team-mate

 (Credit: DWells55 on Reddit Black Ops)

• Activision CEO Bobby Kotick downplays importance of Call of Duty subscription model.
• [YouTube] 'Ghost Camping is a Habit' Call of Duty: Black Ops rap.  (Not Safe for Work language) They say it like it's a bad thing, lol.

    More Gaming Links:

• Blue's News has the scoobies on the leak of the pre-build version of Crysis 2. 
• AppleTV code suggest game functionality.
• ActionTrip Duke Nukem Forever interview with Steve G.
• Bitmob op-ed: Duke Nukem Eventually - Disappointment by the Numbers.
• IGN ponders The Life and Death of Guitar Hero. And Guns ' n' Roses guitarist Slash chips in his two cents on the death of the once popular franchise.
• GamePro op-ed: Music Games are Dead! Long live Music Games!
• The ten dumbest romances in video game history.

Valve's Gabe Newell accessorizes with a Heavy Weapons Guy chaingun...

    Non-Gaming Links:

• NASA's Stardust spacecraft scheduled for comet rendezvous on Valentine's Day. 
• Fossil find suggests 'Lucy' had first modern human foot.
• Boy born without a cerebellum baffles scientists. Amazing article on the flexibility of the human brain to adapt itself. Just one quibble: How does a 3 year old, with or without a cerebellum, have a 'goal in life'?
• Astronauts could hitch a ride to Mars on asteroids.
• Men think iPhones make them sexy. No, dweebs think iPhones make them sexy.

(Credit: glawton on Reddit Funny)

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