12.31.03:
-Steve
Happy New Year to everyone, please be safe tonight...I want to see all
of you back here next year for sure. Killer Gaming Rig #10 opens New
Years Day so get ready to throw your name in the hat for the best KGR
yet. Stay tuned.
Goddess of
Geek: -Steve
What are friends for? Asia Carrera, AKA
the Goddess of Geek, does a lot of stuff around here to help
boost my "cool factor" and make me seem way cooler than I
actually am. After all, it isn't every day that you can brag about
having someone as awesome as Asia wearing your clothes.
Mario Kart:
Double Dash!!! -Steve
We are a huge Xbox household. We have four Xbox consoles in the house
and the majority of our 70 games are Xbox titles. We don't use the PS2
anymore, and our GameCube has had one controller and 4 or 5 games in the
year and a half we've owned it.
Then my buddies at Penny
Arcade kept raving on and on about Mario
Kart: Double Dash so I figured there had to be something to
this...after all Tycho and Gabe would never steer you wrong, right? So I
ran out and grabbed a copy of Double Dash, 3 extra controllers and four
cable extensions. The whole family sits down and the madness ensues.
HOLY HELL double dash is a blast as a multiplayer game!!! It just so
happens the wife and son are a good team and my daughter and I are a
good team which makes for some seriously fun racing. Mario Kart: Double
Dash brings families together.
12.28.03:
-Steve
A shout out to Carole Dube ( one of our loyal Canadian readers )
who was one of our winners in the Autographed Halo giveaway. Carole gave
her prize to her son, who is a huge Halo fan, as a Christmas present
this year.
12.24.03:
-Steve
You guys ( yes...YOU guys ) got a some mainstream props
from a great national magazine this month. The December issue of CPU
Magazine made a mention of the way you guys came together
and helped Briana LaHara and her battle with the RIAA. The real credit
is to you guys for doing the right thing and showing the world that what
the RIAA is doing the total wrong way of stopping file sharing. I am
proud of you guys, and my hat is off to CPU
Magazine for giving you guys a little mainstream press.
12.22.03:
-Steve
We are very close to Christmas and very close to the end of 2003....man,
what a great year. In the spirit of having an equally fantastic 2004 the
Killer Gaming Rig contest will go live on January 1st 2004! Take a look
at the specs below, this will be the best KGR yet! I'm looking into
getting 2GB of some ass kicking memory to go with this killer combo as
we speak. Stay tuned!
KGR #10
Update: -Steve
The collection process for the Killer Gaming Rig #10 is off to an
amazing start. With only three items 3.2GHz
P4EE , the Radeon
9800XT 256MB and the ABIT
IC7-MAX mainboard collected so far the KGR #10 is valued at
over $1,700.00!! Tell me that isn't awesome. I still have a lot of
things to gather up, but this is a great way to get the ball rolling,
the giveaway will OFFICIALLY open Jan 1st, 2004.
12.18.03:
-Steve
ATi is a fantastic
company that has been a long time supporter of the community, they have
once again stepped up to the plate and sponsored another Killer Gaming
Rig. ATi has graciously provided a Radeon
9800XT 256MB video card to handle the graphics of the Killer
Gaming Rig 10. Again, I want all
of you to remember the companies like ATi and Intel that believe in giving
something back to the community ( you guys ) by sponsoring these
events.
12.16.03:
-Steve
Alexa Ranking update! Do you guys remember when I made a post about the Alexa
Toolbar and the screwy results we were getting here awhile
back? Well, I proved my point with Alexa because actual
Hypothermia traffic has been up by almost 15% but our ranking with Alexa
fell a whopping 21%. This is the explanation; Alexa ranks your website
by the amount of people that have the Alexa toolbar installed
that visit your site and not the actual traffic to your site. That is
the long and the short of it. So the next time you see a site like
Hypothermia or HardOCP that has millions of visitors a month being
outranked by some 8th graders website that hasn't been updated since
1995...you know why. I actually like the Alexa Toolbar because it is fun
to look at statistics and the "way back" feature is awesome,
but until everyone that comes here installs it, our ranking will blow.
12.15.03:
-Steve
It took me forever, but I finally got all the AthlonXP 2600+ processors
shipped to the winners so everyone should have one for X-Mas. All I have
to say is this...THANK GOD FOR FEDEX!!! If you ship more
than one or two packages a month, I highly suggest getting a FedEx
account. It doesn't cost anything to set up an account, they come right
to your door and pick up your packages, they drop off everything at your
door ( duh ), they print out all the shipping forms and labels you
need...etc. etc. etc.. FedEx kicks ass, that is why they are the
official delivery service of Hypothermia...they are that good.
KGR #10:
-Steve
On January 1st we plan on opening the Killer Gaming Rig #10 giveaway and
give you guys the chance to win the baddest computer in all the land. If
you look at Killer Gaming Rig #1
thru #9 you will see that it is getting harder and harder to
come up with a bigger, badder computer for each KGR. Thanks to the
fantastic support of the fine folks at Intel
we have an awesome 3.2GHz
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to power the KGR #10. I want all
of you to remember the companies like Intel that believe in giving
something back to the community ( you guys ) by sponsoring these
events.
The Year
2003: -Steve
It is hard to believe that the year is almost over. 2003 was a good
year, we gave away a grand
total of $24,477.37 in prizes in our giveaways this
year, about the same as we did in 2002. I got caught up in
"big" giveaways or auctions this year, so we didn't have
giveaways every month, but we made up for it in the months that we did.
In a world-wide-web full of pay sites, pop-ups and people begging for
donations...I have done very well for myself, maintain the website and
still find time to scrounge up $24k worth of prizes. It makes me feel
good knowing that even though we do not make a single dime off of these
contest we can still do so much for you guys through these giveaways.
Well...here is to another
great year in 2004!!! Speaking of giveaways, enter to win one of those 6
Athlon XP 2600+ CPUs in our last giveaway of the year ( see below
).
Child's
Play: -Steve
I meant to mention this last week but I have been so busy lately that it
slipped my mind. Our friends at Penny
Arcade have put together a toy drive for sick children at
Seattle Children's Hospital. You know me...I am a sucker for a good
cause and I know you guys are too. Have a peek at the Child's
Play website and see how the gang at PA are giving gamers a
good name by helping out sick children.
Asia's X-mas
Card: -Steve
As always, the very lovely Asia Carrera has dropped off this years
Christmas card for all of you to hopefully bring a little extra cheer to
your Holiday season. Having Asia as a friend is my X-mas present every
year...but being on her Christmas list is hella cool. For those of you
who missed them, you can get a peek at X-mas
2002, X-mas
2001, X-mas 2000
and X-mas 1999 here.
12.04.03:
-Steve
How many of you guys out there enjoy a good cigar? I have always been a
non-smoker, was introduced to cigars about 2 years ago and am now a huge
fan of cigars. I am currently liking the Cohiba
Triangulo a lot as well
as other Dominican cigars since trade with Cuba makes getting a Cuban
cigar a big problem. How many of you guys are cigar buffs? Favorites?
Suggestions? Shoot me
suggestions. Hopefully I'm on Santa's "nice" list.
12.02.03:
-Steve
This is the last giveaway of the year so make sure you get your name in
the hat and win one of six AthlonXP 2600+
CPUs we have in our latest one a day for a week giveaway.
While these may not be ultra high-end processors, they make for a great
upgrade for an ailing socket A system in need of a boost. Get in it to
win it...and as always...Good Luck!
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