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A couple months ago I posted
some negative information about BF2142 due to their in-game advertising. Subsequent
to posting that entry, I read more information that led me to believe it wasn't as
onerous as it sounded.
So I bought the game.
No ads. None. Yes, there are billboards where the ads should be, but I get no ads.
Even if there were ads it wouldn't be onerous - they'd just appear on some billboards
here and there, so that seems pretty easy to deal with.
But I don't get them. And I'm sure the reason is that my home network is entirely
behind a f...
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Rarely does network television come up with anything worth watching - even with the power of Tivo... The only network show I've watched in a very long time is Smallville,
and that's a love-hate relationship that will come to an end soon if they don't sh*t
or get off the pot (preferably by killing off the Lana character).
But I can now say that I'm hooked on an NBC show: Heroes (wikipedia).
(Though at the end of each episode thus far I've said (and I quote) "I sure hope they
don't fuck this up." because I fully expect NBC to totally ruin this show. But not
so far, a...
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This sucks. I was seriously looking forward to Battlefield 2142, and if this
blog post is correct I won't be able to buy it.
It is bad enough for them to include product placement and commercials in a game for
which I pay a ton of money. Which is, btw, to say that if they gave the game away
I wouldn't complain about some ads (Though I still might not play the game if the
ads were too annoying. It is worth noting that I don't watch television shows unless
it is on Tivo or DVD - or I'm trapped in a hotel room and am using the TV as background
noise.)
But for me to ...
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Apparently there's the possibility
of new Babylon 5 in the future - how cool is that!?!
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OK, I think I've had it.
A couple years ago I bought an album and a couple other songs through Best Buy's web
site - from a service called Liquid Audio. A few weeks later, my license files quit
working, and Liquid Audio was entirely unhelpful - unsympathetic even! I believe they've
gone out of business though, so they got what they deserved.
About a year ago I bought some songs from the new Napster. A few weeks later I had
a hard drive crash and lost my license files. Fortunately Napster was more helpful
and I was able to get my license files restored (though I th...
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According
to the Star Tribune,
our state government has chosen to avoid enshrining discrimination into the state
constitution. My words, not theirs, btw.
It is kind of
odd. Through my youth and into my early twenties I was rabidly anti-gay. As in "line
'em up and shoot 'em" rabid. Much like the anti-gay people of today, I was motivated
by ignorant hate and fear. Bigotry, in its purest form.
All that changed
when one of my best friends chose to come out to me. First, before even coming out
to his parents. Why me? For a couple rea...
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According to this article,
I'm living in a pretty good place. And I'd generally agree - lots of green areas,
good walking and biking trails, etc.
All that said, it is still a suburb. There's no meaningful concept of "mainstreet",
just the mall. There's no utility to the exercise trails - they don't actually go
anywhere and so they aren't real useful if you want an alternative to driving. And
the streets are designed to minimize traffic and noise, not to provide efficient travel
from point A to point B.
Of course all those things have positiv...
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The following is a list of colors and common related perceptions. This comes from
an article about the color
that is most sexually attractive, which is relatively immaterial. What is more interesting
to me is that these common perceptions are useful from a literary or gaming perspective
- this list makes an excellent guide in terms of picking the right color(s) to set
a certain mood or expectation in your reader or the player of your role-playing game.
Black: Sophistication, elegance, seduction, mystery, sex, banishment,
binding, protection, evil
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I have long been of the opinion that the wealthy are so out of touch with reality
that they live in a different world. This was reinforced at my previous workplace
when we were touring the owner's massive mansion on Lake Minnetonka and found out
that his heating bill every year was more than the total mortgage on our
house at the time. Which made some sense, since our house could have easily fit inside
the room that housed his indoor swimming pool.
That merely crystalized the idea that the rich were out of touch. How could they be in
touch when their uti...
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He should have known better. The
rumors had been around for weeks now, but he’d been too damn dense to put it all together
and now he was doomed.
The ships had jumped in-system without
warning, appearing on the long-range grav sensor net and immediately fanning out into
a high-speed inbound assault formation. Worse, they’d come in from a non-standard
vector. Somehow they’d scouted and cleared a jump route big enough for a light cruiser.
By coming in this way, they’d bypassed the standard defense grid, rendering it useless.
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The first paragraph
in this article reinforces
something I've known to be true. And the public schools have played a major role
in making this happen.
My son, Adventure
Boy, was born in 1993. As soon as he hit the public schools we were under pressure
to drug him. The teachers started it, then brought in the school psychologist and
staff and administration. Yup, there was serious pressure.
All couched within the context of what was "best for the child".
Bullshit.
They wanted what
was best for the school. On multiple...
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...and related things - including
superheroes!! Makes me glad I live in MN :)
Seriously, I am a comic collector, and Minnesota really is full of comic authors and
artists. But who knew we had actual spandex-clad heroes?
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Friday
I was flying home from
Norway
, through JFK in
Washington
,
DC
. (which has to be one of the worst-thought-out airports in the world btw…)
On the plane from JFK to
Minneapolis
I was just wrapping up a book Billy Hollis loaned me, called Connections,
by James Burke. This is an awesome book, where the author uses each chapter to walk
through the connections from some primitive discovery to a modern technology. Modern
as of 1979 anyway, since that’s when this was ...
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Download the torrent here.
This is biting, serious, hard-hitting humor. If you dislike President Bush, or at
least the job he's doing you'll love this.
But if you dislike the media (left, right, center or otherwise) and the job they are
(or aren't) doing, you'll love this.
Really, it has something for everyone - just prepared to be astonished at the balls
Colbert must have to say these things in that forum!
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Apparently the Vatican has riot-envy. They looked out at the world and noticed that
when Muslims riot over cartoons it generates a lot of press. Not favorable press,
but as the old saying goes, any
press is good press. Marketing, marketing, marketing!
So, in an effort to cash in on the free publicity of world-wide protests, marches
in the streets and clashes with the police (not to mention the occasional torching
of a KFC) the Vatican is encouraging Catholics to boycott
a movie:
A Vatican official on Friday called for a boycott of the upcoming
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