Today’s the day…

The reviews are already coming in, and things are looking good! MetaCritic has the roundup.

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Tammy had to work in San Diego this weekend, so I drove down after work Friday to hang out with her. While I’ve been to San Diego a few times before, I’d never actually driven through downtown. It was pretty nice!

Saturday we hung out at the Miramar air show.

Here’s the Nobel Biocare booth. It provided some much-needed shade on Saturday-

A few random shots-

This is actually a Harrier hovering above the airstrip before strafing left and right across the crowd. The Harrier is the perennial fan favorite, and it’s easy to see why when you see them in action.

Unfortunately a cameraphone can’t do justice to aircraft flying at 600 miles per hour. It was hard enough getting the jets in the shot in the first place.

Those little specks are actually the Blue Angels!

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It drives me crazy when people don’t pronounce the H in ‘human’. We’re not yoo-man beings, people! We’re humans! Know how to pronounce your own species at least.

It’s a slow week for me.

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Shadow of the Colossus is just seven days away from retail, and 1up.com is running a week-long feature to get you PUMPED UP!

http://shadow.1up.com/

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A Scientologist birth is like no other.

Tom and Katie are likely to follow the church’s “silent birth” guidelines during delivery, which means no music and no talking during the birth, which also means no screaming during the pains of labor.

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Mario64 is a game near and dear to my heart. It was the reason I bought a Nintendo 64. Even though it may have been the first title released for the N64 it’s probably still the best game the platform has ever seen.

Normally you’d need to collect 70 stars throughout the game before you’d be allowed to climb the endless staircase to battle Bowser and finish it off. This could take hours.

However! There are a few map glitches in the game, and if you take advantage of them you can finish the whole thing with just 16 stars in a little less than 20 minutes.

I know, I know. It sounds crazy. I hear ya. That’s what I thought too. Then I watched this video and it all made sense.

Imagine what would happen if you told Data from Star Trek to play a video game as fast as he possibly could without dying once. This video is just like that. It’s insane.

Now, videos like this are nothing new. If you search Google for “speed run” you’ll find a ton. What’s unique about this one is how every known glitch in Mario64 is exploited perfectly to produce an absolutely flawless play-through of what I used to think was a really hard game!

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I thought this was kind of silly.

Yahoo, a site that nobody really uses, just bought upcoming.org, another site that nobody really uses.

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I’ve been up since 4:30 this morning so bear with me if I sound a little loopy.

“Retexturizing” is the process of deconstructing a Nintendo 64 ROM and replacing all of its textures with hand-made, higher-resolution versions. The end result is a game that looks great when played in an emulator.

Purists may argue that this is sacrilege, but it’s hard to argue with results like this:

Notable projects include Mario64, a cel-shaded Mario64, and of course Zelda.

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