March 25th, 2008 by cybrpunk
I stopped by the doctor’s office on the way in to work today to check on those test results from my poop. The results were overdue. I chatted with the doc for a minute and he told me that all the tests were negative. Huh.
Then he called me on my mobile just a bit ago and said he got additional test results since I was in there. Odd that they break it into parts but whatever. He told me that I have something called the Norwalk Virus. And that there was no cure. A bit of panic set in.
Luckily it’s not as bad as it sounds and the doc just needs to learn how to phrase things better in English. There is no cure because it’s a virus and it just runs its course and dies off. I did some research and found that it’s the second most common virus after the common cold in the United States and is better known as the stomach flu. Well, that’s not nearly so bad sounding, is it?
Ah well, at least I know I’m not dying of some fancy tropical disease. Hey look, a bright side!
March 25th, 2008 by cybrpunk
If you’re not familiar with the whole Gamespot fiasco late last year (where a premier editor was fired after giving a bad review to a heavily advertised game), this Ars Technica article shows a timeline of his firing followed by the departure of five more major Gamespot staff, many of which claim say has to do with the original firing. Gamespot can claim that the firing was unrelated to the advertising and the review, but somehow I doubt it.
While I was poking around in the user comments though, I noticed a link to a site called Giant Bomb. This is a new start-up games site by Jeff Gerstmann (the Gamespot editor who was fired) and other recently ex-Gamespot staff including Ryan Davis and Alex Navarro. I’d say it’s pretty likely that even more recent Gamespot retirees will start having their name show up on this site as well.
The Giant Bomb site has only been posting content since February but they already have some game reviews and news of the quality that I used to come to expect from the old site. If you’re interested in games and gaming news, make sure you bookmark this site as I expect it to become a major player very soon.
