Entertainment
E3 Halo 4 Trailer
To my XBox 360 owning friends (Jeremy, I’m looking at you kid) it’s time to start gloating again. Halo 4 is inbound. Granted you won’t have it until Christmas 2012, but it will be a cold day in hell before PS3 owners can play Halo 1, 2, 3 or 4. So enjoy the bragging rights; I’m sure you won’t be afraid to remind all of us PS3 owners that we are just SOL.
If you haven’t already seen the trailer shown at E3, I’ve embedded it below. I will worn you now – IT’S SHORT!
Not surprisingly it’s one of the most watched videos of the past week with 2.7 million views. I remember when a few million views was amazing number of views for the lifetime of a video, much less a week.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2yMKMENdg
Do You Believe In Miracles
On Friday, February 22nd during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games being held in Lake Placid, New York; the United States hockey team did the impossible. A very young team of American hockey players, Led by coach Herb Brooks took on the most dominate team ever in international Hockey – the Soviet Union. They did so and WON!
No one thought it was possible, except maybe coach Brooks. I remember the day well, considering it was decades ago. While the game was played in the afternoon ABC delayed it for prime-time, there was no CNN or internet to spoil the surprise. It also meant I could watch the game after school with my dad.
I wasn’t a hockey fan, but by Friday night it would have been un-American not to watch. I sat in our living room with my dad mesmerized by this game I didn’t understand. While the sport was a mystery, at 9 years of age I did understand that the Soviets were the bad guys; and we were the good guys. I also knew we were the underdog, but had a team that was in a medal round. That alone was amazing and unexpected.
The periods passed with the US team playing well, but losing. With 10 minutes on the clock the US scored, making it a 4 to 3 lead. While details like that are foggy for me, what came to pass in the final 10 seconds of the game are not. As the clocked ticked away I remember Al Michaels wildly excited as he screamed:
Eleven seconds, you’ve got ten seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk. Five seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles?…YES!
POC: On Stranger Tides
Today Tracy, Krisite and I are going to go see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. We’ve seen all of them and have enjoyed them all.
No they won’t win Oscars for acting or writing, but they are FUN!! Johnny Depp is a blast as Captain Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa always seems to steal the scene. With Ian McShane joining this latest voyage as Blackbeard and Penelope Cruz as a new vixen; it should be a wild ride.
I don’t care if there will be a 5 and 6, just looking forward to having fun with number 4.
