Mike Milo’s Journal

For My Democrat Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.  Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere.

Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.  By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated.  This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It  implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself/himself/others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.  This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the
issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wish.

For My Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Check it out! A friend of mine sent me this… In case you don’t know instantly what is funny about this, the guy on the left with the goatee looks just like me! Well, more or less… Funny though!

Wow! This is amazing! A group of geniuses have developed a First-Person shooter for the web called Phosphor using Macromedia Director and I have to say it’s outstanding! It’s not easy to play and sometimes it doesn’t work well in Firefox but fire it up in IE and it works flawlessly.

Like most FPS games, you are a soldier with an arsenal of guns running through buildings, valleys and over ravines etc. trying to find other players (the computer) to kill before they kill you. In Phosphor the IA characters are hell-bent on destroying you and waste no time in attack so you have to be really quick to get the jump on them first.

The graphics are pretty good considering the fact that you are streaming over the web and while they’re no match for a true console FPS remember it’s all free so you really can’t complain.

You even have options to choose from in that you can choose multiple guns, ammo and even tweak settings such as full screen and frame rate. It’s a pretty in depth application.

Phosphor is pretty fast paced and you die quickly unless you keep your wits about you but suffice it to say if you’re in to FPS games you’ll dig this one!

Today would have been Walt Disney’s 105th birthday! that has me thinking… what would he think of today’s animated features? Would he cringe or be inspired? Hmmmm.

So I have found a new cool game! A few weeks ago we were robbed. Two bastard kids broke in and among other things stole my XBox and all my games! BASTARDS! Anyway, as it is in some cases I had insurance and they paid for me to get a brand spankin’ new XBox 360!

So I am now playing Gears of War! It’s a really amazing game (not as good as Half Life 2 IMHO, but pretty sweet so far) It’s got incredible graphics and some really well done game play I’ll post more as I play further into the game.