Plano got smart, for once

I lived in plano for most of my life growing up and even though, at one point in it's history, it had a great schooling system, it's just a stupid town. that may be a completely biased opinion, but that town breeds arrogance, superiority and corruption. So, imagine the surprise when local Planoites discovered from reading their paper this morning over their grande latte enema that the cumulative IQ sharply rose for a 4 hour period of time last night out front of a Best Buy location.

Yup, like every other big geek gathering, Best Buy held a midnight sale for the release of Doom 3 and i was there. J and i showed up to an already long line around 10:15 last night after a frosty shot of rumple or tuaca and sat in the summer evening heat with, eventually, about 1000 others bent on being the first kid on their block to kill a pinky demon. Instant friendships were created, plans for Quakecon decided upon and deathmatch servers were discussed. it was obvious that this was a parking lot full of geeks as the stature and build of most of these guys reeked gamer. Guys (and i only say this because there couldn't have been more than a dozen females there and most of them had never heard of Doom before) who had hammered down to many Bawls and Snickers and read to many bulletin board reviews and had online aliases that were spelled with not only, letters, but numbers (as a makeshift letter) loitered around the BB parking lot with intent of saving the world. Yes, even the famed Fatal1ty was onhand to sign copies for those that idolize a 21 year old that can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as a professional gamer. We were all there, all giddy with anticipation, all sweaty and ready to pay our $60. The EDGE was onhand throwing t-shirts and stickers and other worthless crap at us to keep us out of riot stage. The time came and at 12:01 am, they started letting us in, in groups of 30 like packs of inmates waiting to get our hour outside in the yard. Ironically, we were waiting for exactly the opposite. $60 lighter and with a new glimmer in our eye, we filed back outside and most, right back into another line to have a dozen or so members of the id team to sign a copy of our new reason to forget our lives, our families and the sun. The time was at hand and retribution was forthcoming for all of those poor demons that were about to be unleashed on Plano, Texas.