Summer begins

The semester’s over at last. Turned in grades last night — nothing left but graduation Saturday morning.

So now it’s time for . . .

Doom 3.

Normally I’m not one for bloody violence, and I resisted picking up the new Doom because the screen shots were really disturbing, especially the giant spiders and the floating heads. Eek. But then the demo came in the mail, and I found myself laughing out loud at the game’s creepy audacity. In some ways it’s the same Doom it’s always been — get from Point A to Point B and kill everything in the way — but with Surround Sound and nightmare quality graphics it’s far more immersive. I won’t be playing just before going to sleep.