It's been a hell of a week - and I haven't finished this week's fiction. Bad Tim, no biscuit! It's in progress. Maybe tonight, but I suspect tomorrow is more likely. But there will be one, honest. And it has characters this blog has seen before!

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Tags: Fiction, ThingAWeek, slack, delays

Geeks find many way to set aside the mundanity of the real world these days. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of companies compete for our time and our money, and we can find ourselves with more escape pods than ever before, an embarrassment of riches that can be overwhelming, with dire consequences if we choose . . . poorly.

SuicideGirls > News > Geek > Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: A Mind Forever Voyaging Look, just go read the whole thing OK? Yeah, yeah SuicideGirls NSFW, blah blah, blahdity blah. It's worth the effort. And when somebody asks me about the fact that I've gone over two years without setting foot inside a movie theater - I'm linking them to this article.

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The qlmanage utility gives you direct access to many Quick Look functions; of specific interest is the -p flag. This option displays the Quick Look generated preview for any file. So if you tell it to qlmanage -p foo.png, the image immediately pops up in a Quick Look pane.

Terminal Tip: Use Quick Look from the Leopard command line - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Quick Look is very nice - but it doesn't display Excel 2000 files completely correctly. I've seen empty cells, and cells that should have green numbers say [Green]<number> instead.

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TV Guide.com reported that producers of NBC's Heroes are shooting an alternate ending to the Dec. 3 episode that will wrap up the second season early in the event an expected writers' strike prevents the show from continuing with new episodes.

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM The article goes on to say that the 12/3 episode was always supposed to wrap the current "Generations" storyline, so it's really just a question about whether they kick off a new story I suppose. Which brings me to question that they are wrapping the Heroes story in just like four weeks or so. This season has been an awful lot of setup and talkiness, compared to last year. I guess maybe they are just wrapping the one story element, leaving Claire, Hiro, and maybe in Mohinder's "inside agent" storyline still to carry forward.

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Mass Effect (X360) Release Date: Nov 20, 2007 - In a diverse interstellar society, you must overcome other species' distrust of humans and battle a force that threatens to end all life. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3) Release Date: Nov 19, 2007 - This new game from Naughty Dog features jungle adventures in a Pitfall-esque setting. Rock Band (X360, PS3) Release Date: Nov 20, 2007 - Rock out with your friends as you perform music from the world's biggest rock artists using drum, bass, lead guitar, and microphone peripherals.

New Video Games - New Game Releases - New Video Game Releases Those are only the first three entries on Gamespot's "New Releases Week of Nov 18, 2007" chart. Yes, yes, "Black Friday" blah, blah I know why it happens but still . . . . Sadly I think the big loser here for me may be the PS3 - I already have Rock Band (for the 360) preordered and I can totally see buying one of the others as a more traditional single-player experience, but buying two other games in the same week as Rock Band is right out. Uncharted versus Mass Effect is a tough call. On the one hand, I traditionally don't like Bioware's console games (KOTOR, Jade Empire). I think Uncharted has a much better pedigree. On the other hand, Mass Effect looks really good, and I think Bioware has been improving on the console front.

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Tags: gaming, RockBand, MassEffect, Uncharted, holidays, BlackFriday