Seems appropriate to pummel you some more with graphics news and views, doesn't it. Maybe beat you into enthusiasm. Or, maybe you should pick any of the following phrases that stir your ire:

Quakes I, II, and III suck. Bring back the whalebone corset. ATI is in Canada so, there's a problem right there. Intel's Blue Men Can't Talk. AMD Just Doesn't Get It. RDRAM is really cool. Myst is the greatest game of ALL time. GeForce3 is cheap at twice the price. PS2 sucks. Xbox sucks. GameCube sucks. Palm Pilots don't do much considering you need to attach them to a $1,500 PC.

Surely, something I've said can stir ya'? I know it's not just me. Talked to a buddy of mine in the mainstream press (they have better spell checkers, and hire overpaid editors to move paragraphs around), and he said the same thing. He actually said, "Got anything interesting? I'm kind of bored."

I said, "Dammit, Bubba, don't you realize that the 3D pipeline is in danger of going all funky on us? That's news. It doesn't even look like a pipeline anymore. Someone should call it the 3D thingy flow chart whatchyamacallit, or something really cool, like 3D Doh."

"Take a look at these images we got for the new ATI R200 . No one is talking about what it's going to take to program their games to deliver these suckers. Talk about that, Bubba, talk about that."

"Hey, what's it like over there at Vogue? Meet any models?"

Read on. It's Friday, and I doubt you have much else going on at work.