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This post uses a variant on the Growf scale of domestic animal satisfaction:

 PET |                                                        | MEAT
-----+--------------------------------------------------------+------
                                                          XXX          ABBIE
                                              XXX                      MARTHA
-----+--------------------------------------------------------+------

Things lost so far in the early morning shenanigans include a wineglass, a small stack of empty soda cans, a stack of books (note: the structure of the stacks were lost and not the cans and books themselves) and approximately several hours' sleep. Apparently I was unaware the cats had scheduled drag races to occur this morning from 3 AM on. And since it seems that cats have developed their own laws of physics, a drag-racing cat in motion this morning tends to stay in motion until it jumps up on a desk or dresser or what have you.

An extension of the scale beyond MEAT, tenatively titled FLOATING HEAD OVER PAWS DOWN THE CHARLES, has yet to be added, but if this shit keeps up lord knows it's going in.

Look Around You

Even if you don't go beyond the cut, you can download the brilliant MP3 here which I ripped directly from the episode.

( EXPERIMENT ONE. An experiment was carried out to demonstrate how a modern song is composed. )

Fuckedgamingcompany

Looks like Interplay finally shut down Black Isle and laid everybody off. (Also, please: a board that filters out naughty words with '*beep*'? What are we here, twelve? Just star out the offending words and be done with it. '*beep*' as written looks incredibly stupid. But that's semantics for you.)

We've lost some grand old gaming companies this year -- Microprose finally succumbed to "Atari's" horrible management (give that name back, you bastards, you don't deserve it) and now we must mourn the loss of Black Isle too. Sure, perhaps the companies that we lose weren't exactly putting out games of the same caliber as the ones we remember fondly, but that doesn't make the loss any less of a, well, bummer.

And it looks as if Fallout 3 will go the way of, say, System Shock 3. Again, bummer.