This weekend began quietly Saturday morning as I zombie-walked into lab bright and early at 7:30am to get some experiments started. Fortunately, this turned out to be a wise choice, for when I left work around 5 in the afternoon, it had become a complete whiteout. By the time the weekend blizzard ended late Sunday afternoon, we had been blanketed by more than 2 feet of Jack Frost’s finest. And of course, what better way to spend a snowed-in weekend than mindless computer games? In fact, I had just gotten my hands on a copy of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, perhaps the sleekest, most handsomely-designed adventure game since MGS came out in college. Of course, back then, I actually could afford the time to do this on a daily basis. Nevertheless, armed with high-tech gadgets, from thermal goggles to sticky spy-cams, and from the roof of a US embassy in Indonesia to the underside of a passenger train in Paris, the game certainly made for an action-packed weekend.