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Finally, another quiet eye-in-the-storm of work today, so I’ll take some time and grace you with an update to my Blog.

Lucky you.

Saturday, Reg, Kendrick, Hwan, Pops, Orbhead and I sat around playing Halo 2 on a projection screen. Way too much fun. We chose the “Kill of the Day” (involving a rolling Banshee) and the Quote of the Day - which didn’t come until the very end of the event, when playing “Capture the Flag” inspired the Star Wars Geek quote “Almost there…. Almost there……”.

Jenning showed up near the end, and after another hour or so of bringing ourselves down from a larger-than-life version of 4-player Halo 2 (by playing another hour on a ‘regular sized screen’) we joined Gina for sushi. It seemed pretty good to me, but I’m hardly an expert on Japanese food, even after all the raw fish that I’ve consumed over the last three or four years. However, Reg’s journal pointed me to a good rant that describes How To Tell A Japanese restaurant From A Non-Japanese Japanese Restaurant.

The weekend also granted me the luxury of watching The Matrix Revolutions again. I think I’ve only seen it once up to this point. Ever since leaving the theatre, my expectation was that I would enjoy it better after some time. The movie was just too hyped up, and had a lot to live up to. The first movie was revolutionary in design, storytelling and style. The second and third were too much the same movie.

Personally, if I were responsible for the design of the campaign, I would have chosen a crimson red as the primary colour for the third movie’s ads, completing the RGB (in reverse order) of computer light. With the red light, they could have pushed more machinery in the posters… reminding the viewer of the other side of The War.

…but that’s just my opinion. Now everyone’s going to have a purplish-blue box for The Matrix, and a green box for The Animatrix, Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. Too bad.

Alberta is voting today and will re-elect Ralph Klein. Most ironic quote has to be from the Big Bully himself, saying that “elections are not just about making promises. They are also about listening to people and learning where they stand.”

Unfortunately, while we’ve been listening (yes, ‘we’… I’m including us other Canadians) he refused to release details about Health Care reforms until after the election. It’s difficult to believe that this is from a province next door to the one that created The Greatest Canadian, Tommy Douglas.

Perhaps it’s a bit premature to declare Douglas the winner, but he’s led the list in votes since week one, when George Stroumboulopoulos made his case. George is the only DJ/VJ in the last five years (besides Josh Holiday) that I’ve respected, and after watching that particular special, he gets yet another gold star from me.

They’re showing the final one tonight (Trudeau), but there will be a Greatest Canadian Marathon playing Saturday on CBC Newsworld. Remember, you can vote after every episode, but you have to sign up at the web site first.

The two-part finale (leave it to CBC to draw something like this out) will air at 8 PM - 10 PM on Sunday and Monday, November 28 and 29.

But if history isn’t your thing, you can take a look at an interesting twist on the special series, called The Roundup’s Greatest Fictional Canadian. I’m kind of surprised that Bob & Doug McKenzie didn’t make the finalists’ list, but I’m sure that there were others who couldn’t believe that Mr. Canoehead didn’t make the list either.