Happy Hanukkah!  (and apologies if I spelled that wrong...)

Random IdHOP News Update for 12/13/01


I don't know what it's like in everyone else's parts of the world, but
by me I feel like I'm trapped in Holodrum... 68° weather in the middle
of December?  WTF?  Gimme some snow!


First up on the news reel, before I forget:  Check out the new Tursiops
Truncatus Software web page (http://tts.cjb.net/)!  It's been given a
face lift with Illustrator, and there's a few upcoming projects listed
(like Photosynthesis).


Our second story is not really news per-se (not like that's a problem,
and if you think it is, you can just pick up and go home because not
only don't I like you, but I don't like your attitude, and I don't like
your face, and I don't like your mamma!  UHH!) -- my world was rocked
today when I learned that the dude who did the voice of Spyro the Dragon
in the first Spyro game is one and the same as the two-bit slut punk who
voiced that wretched, foul THING that plagued the Taco Bell ads for so
long.  When I heard the news, I crawled into a corner and wept
uncontrollably.


Next story -- possibly the biggest news story of the year -- HalfLight
fans (yes, Half*Light*, not Half-*Life*) rejoice, Gaping Wolf Software
has released HalfLight AE (anniversary edition)!  Head on over to
http://www.gapingwolf.com/ for the full scoop.


Keep Opera (or whatever you use) open... I found a cool site a few weeks
ago that is one of the few forces strong enough to persuade me to
download MP3's over my dial-up connection:  http://remix.overclocked.org
It's a huge bank of techno remixes of video game tunes.  Woot.


While we're on a bit of a video game theme here, it would be an absolute
shame not to mention Super Smash Bros.: Melee.  I haven't played it yet,
but from what I've heard of this thing I really need to play, ad
infinitum.  Of course, I'd need a GameCube first, but it wouldn't be the
first time I've bought a system just for one game, and this time I'd be
buying it for two.


To close out this evening's report, a couple movie tidbits:  The makers
of the "Land Before Time" series finally lost track and stopped
numbering their movies... their latest one would have been VIII, I
think.  The producers say they plan to continue the "Land Before Time"
series until the final movie, "The Land at the End of Time" which
chronicles the Heat Death of the Universe and will be released six
months prior.


And last, I saw Ocean's Eleven a couple days ago.  It was fun, about
what I expected given the previews and commercials and stuff.  Plus it
gave me the perfect cover to camp out in the movie theatre until the
19th.  WOOT!


That's all, beeyotches.  Keep it real,
  Ky


P.S.  The 2nd annual IdHOP Christmas special starts Dec. 20.  Students
(or anyone, really) home for the holidays, if you have another e-mail
address you'd like me to send these to, just let me know by then.