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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><a href="../../../index.html"><font color="#904C10" size="4">End 
                        of the Line</font></a></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">A 
                        report by Russell &quot;<a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">RadPipe</a>&quot; 

                        Lauzon</font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 2&nbsp; <br>
                      November 15, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Back to 
                Activision. Dinner was held at the swanky DC3 restaurant which 
                was steps away the office. The buffet was a passing memory because 
                I was anxious to start gambling. Yep, that's right. They had one 
                of those kooky fake-money casinos going and we each got $300 to 
                blow. Well, I sidled up to a blackjack table and went through 
                my money pretty quick. Ah but, &quot;it's just fake money!&quot; 
                I kept screaming to myself. </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some funky 
                DJ appeared and the dance floor lit up like a Turkish bazarre. 
                I hit the floor with Anna Kang, Lowtax (formerly of PQ), David 
                (id Software's tourmeister), and a couple other hip Activision 
                people. Lowtax and I showed `em what dancing is all about. We 
                were up, we were down, we were all over that grooving scene in 
                what was either the most fantastic demonstration of hip hop ever, 
                or the most embarrassing display of two grown men trying to look 
                cool. But Anna kept laughing so I think we were doing okay. </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Here's 
                a funny tale. I asked one of the waitresses if she would be dancing, 
                and when she responded that she had to work otherwise &quot;would 
                love to!&quot;, I grabbed her tray, shouted, &quot;Ok go!&quot; 
                and proceeded to race around the tables collecting empty bottles 
                and glasses. Well she almost screamed but chased me for a good 
                2 minutes before she caught me and her tray (I was going pretty 
                fast). But now she knows. Never bluff the Radmeister.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Somewhere 
                I dug up another $300 (now THAT doesn't happen everyday does it) 
                so I hit the blackjack tables again. With only minutes to spare, 
                I decided to see how quickly I could lose the money. I kept dropping 
                $100 chips on other folks' bets, including loonyboi, Blue, Sharky, 
                and a few others, but danged if I just could not lose everything. 
                </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">At the 
                end we got tickets based on how much money we had won, and there 
                was this big prize giveaway, but for some reason I can't remember 
                much of it. I talked to Todd Hollenshead for a bit and then Christian, 
                and things were pretty much coming to a close. The rest of the 
                night was pretty hazy, but I do remember walking for miles and 
                miles down Sunset Blvd at 2:00am in the morning. What a great 
                town LA is.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Saturday 
                morning was kind of neat. I managed to make it back to my hotel 
                just as David was getting up, and we jumped on the bus and drove 
                it back to Activision. There I had the distinguished honor of 
                helping to pull the guts out of the bus. We pulled out the machines, 
                the nifty Q3 eye-pleasers, all the black padded foaming, and quite 
                a bit of the wooden frame holding most of the innards together. 
                It was fun but kind of sad. I think it was worse for David though, 
                because he had ridden the thing since launch, a couple of months 
                earlier.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I managed 
                to grab a couple of hours of sleep and then hit the town with 
                two wonderful folk. Paul, the Office Manager from Activision and 
                his friend, shoot can't remember her name, took me through LA 
                and we had a wonderful day together seeing the sites. I got to 
                walk the Promenade, the Santa Monica peer, and even dunked my 
                head in the ocean. Kind of a geeky touristy thing to do, but hey, 
                I'm a computer nerd. What do you expect?</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That was 
                pretty much the end of my stay in LA, but I can't end this without 
                sending a huge thank-you over to Anna Kang of id, who asked me 
                to be apart of it. Um, so, thanks Anna. Was fun.</font></p>
              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; Lauzon is some guy who just walked 
                into the loonygames office and started calling himself Features 
                Editor. The position wasn't filled so we kept him.</i></font></p>
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