It's been about a week since I started working on Gunslinger Quake2. The idea is to replace the guns with old west style weapons and provide a little more realistic physics and logic (as well as secondary fire modes). The weapon logic for the primary mode of the first five weapons (bowie knife, revolver, pair of revolvers, double-barrel shotgun, and pump-action shotgun) is finished, and there are some place-holder models to make things look a little less weird. Next I'll be working on some models, the logic for the other five weapons (hatchet, molatov cocktail, lever-action rifle, Sharps single-shot rifle, and cannon), and secondary firing modes.

President Clinton said today: "I have learned again an enormous amount of respect for our Constitution, our framers and for the American people."

Am I the only one who is frightened that it took a Senate impeachment trial to teach Mr. Clinton a respect for the Constitution, our nation's founding fonders, and Clinton's boss, the citizens of the United States?

The bigger question is whether or not Clinton considers the Bill of Rights to be a part of the Constitution that he respects.

Valve Software is coming out with the Half-Life demo tomorrow? What the hell? Half-Life has been out for months. What happened to demos coming out before the game, so people can actually try it out before they buy it? Did game companies decide that people might decide not to purchase the game? Or is this more evidence that today's computer game industry rushes projects out the door before they're ready?

This morning on the Today show Matt Lauer conducted an interview/debate with the mayor of New Orleans and a representative of Glock. I can't say that either one did particularly well. The mayor of New Orleans sounded like the Reverend Lovejoy's wife on the Simpsons stuck in a continuous loop: "Won't someone think of the children? Won't someone think of the children!" He was under the delusion that the cable locks that now ship with new guns are a component of new and advanced "smart gun" technology, not the decades-old tools that they are. And the first mayor to bring suit against gun manufacturers for their flooding of the market with weapons apparently authorized the selling of thousands (?) of police-confiscated weapons to gun manufacturers for resale to the public. Sounds really committed to the cause, doesn't he?

The representative from Glock (some V.P.) did not impress me one bit. He had a bad habit of smirking at the mayor's comments. Sure, the cry of "for the children" is often used to legitimize the most ludicrous and invasive violation of freedoms, but the public needs to be educated, not misled into thinking that gun owners do not care about kids. Although he did mention the safety programs initiated by the NRA, he failed to adequately address the issue.

Hopefully in future "debates", the manufacturers and groups will be a little more careful in their choice of representatives.