Game #112 - Company of Heroes.
Posted on August 12, 2007 at 1:46 am.
I just finished my game number 112, Company of Heroes. It is a great game as I wrote before.
Big thanks to Darren 'Fenriswolf' Pearce, who convinced me to give CoH a shot, even though I didn't want to even look at another WWII game.
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Merry Christmas ... ugh ... duuude.
Posted on August 11, 2007 at 1:59 pm.
Visited a friend yesterday. He's got his Christmas tree all assembled and decorated. Since winter.
Well, he's more than half way through to the upcoming Christmas already.
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Movie - Idiocracy.
Posted on August 11, 2007 at 1:56 pm.
Saw Idiocracy yesterday. Liked the first 4 minutes. The rest sucked.
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Global warming retards.
Posted on August 10, 2007 at 2:04 pm.
Why listen to a voice of reason when there is a good hysteria to be had? The fans of the doomsday prophecies will appreciate this one:
Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000.
These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data.
McKintyre notified the pair of the bug; Ruedy replied and acknowledged the problem as an "oversight" that would be fixed in the next data refresh.
NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.
The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming propaganda machine could be huge.
Then again -- maybe not. I strongly suspect this story will receive little to no attention from the mainstream media.
Original article is here.
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Book - In a Time of Darkness.
Posted on August 9, 2007 at 5:08 pm.
Just finished up In a Time of Darkness by John Ringo. This is more of the light type of reading and I am not sure of it's value other than to provide a share of the continuity lore.
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Book - Emerald Sea.
Posted on August 9, 2007 at 2:50 pm.
Just finished reading Emerald Sea by John Ringo. It was pretty nice, exciting at times. I think I like the man's position on many, many issues.
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Bitches and hos to be banned.
Posted on August 8, 2007 at 10:10 am.
Yep. By the New York City Council, no less. I guess they simply don't value their job security. Apparently the irony is lost on them and they don't realize that if bitches and hos are outlawed, the entire council would have to be dismissed.
Particularly the fascist Councilbitch Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn, who sometimes refers to herself (mistakingly) as a Counsilwoman.
The original article is here.
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4000 people per week leave UK.
Posted on August 7, 2007 at 2:57 pm.
My friend sent me this article. It talks about the people who are running away from Britain. Mostly young professionals.
Reasons? Well, that would be immigration, the fact that UK is a police state, poor education, poor living conditions, rising taxes, etc.
Good job Britain! Keep driving your best away. Soon you'll join the ranks of all the other third world shitholes that nobody wants to live in.
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Korea according to my sister - 4.
Posted on August 7, 2007 at 9:29 am.
Another letter from Korea. Enjoy!
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Of course the school is paying for all my traveling. [She has to get out of the country to get a work visa.] They reimbursed my night in a hotel smack in the middle of Hong Kong and Kevin said to bring back the food bills too next time. Oh and the flight to Hong Kong was full and the flight back was full (cause there are just too many Asians in general) and I was bumped up to the business class both ways. That meant big reclining seats, lots of good food, free alcohol and my own TV. Good times.
Hong Kong, not Japan [she originally said that she would fly to Japan for a visa], was great. It's a gorgeous city on a hundred of mountainous little islands with skyscrapers everywhere. As the plane was descending, it circled around the city and the view was just breathtaking. Underneath the skyscrapers there is a bunch of little shops, bars and restaurants. I went pub hopping, and every place seemed so unique and friendly. Almost everyone spoke English well enough to serve my many needs. There were free escalators up the mountains just to get from a street to a parallel street. It was possible to take the stairs too. It was all very picturesque in a seedy, sleazy type of way. Everything was fun and cozy, but there was this feeling that the Asian mafia will jump out and shoot everybody in a matter of minutes. Also, do you know if all former British colonies in Asia drive on the wrong side of the street? I almost got ran over 7 times because of that. But then again, I kept almost getting run over in Amsterdam all the time so maybe it's just me... Anywho, Hong Kong seemed more funky and diverse than Korea. they had somewhat familiar shit in the stores too. Oh and let it be proclaimed that Hong Kong has the best Starbucks in the whole world. Thank you.
Anyway, next time it'll be Japan, probably. It might be Hong Kong again, or Taiwan, or Thailand. The manager who screwed up and cost the school almost $2000 in our travels has to take the whole company out for drinks on Friday. He doesn't like drinking, but he has to drink this Friday because his bosses will be drinking and he has to pay for everyone no matter how much we'll drink. Poor chap. His wife is pregnant and he works 14 hour days.
Congratulations on your achievements. I expect you to finish at least 50 games before I get back. You know that, right? I don't need some sort of a mediocre gamer for a brother, so go on and make me proud. [...] Oh and tell Vika that I've been to a multitude of real fetish stores while on acid and non of them were nearly as scary as that super hero, power puff, lord of the rings vampire fetish store at the mall.
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Harry [a student in her class] showed me deep red lines on his legs where his public school teacher had hit him with a whip. Then, all the other kids started to roll their pants up to show me their lines and bruises. It looked like some of them drew blood. It was sickening. I told them that if anyone would touch my kid like that, I'd get them fired. Harry got really excited and started asking me if the cops showed up or if the teacher stayed in the hospital for a long time. See, he thought that someone already hit my kid and I set them on fire. As I left that class, they were all throwing stuff at each other yelling, "You're fired! No, you're fired!"
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Korea according to my sister - 3.
Posted on August 6, 2007 at 10:46 am.
The conquest of South Korea by my sister continues. This time she tried to take over a department store. Here is the story in her own words:
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Stores in Korea always look like the American stores on the day after Thanksgiving 'cause there are just too damn many Koreans. Period.
Today, though, I accidentally found myself in a WalMart-y type place in the middle of a back to school sale.
Son... May I call you "son", for today had aged me.
Son, you just don't know... You think you know, but you don't know. It was worse than that time I was tripping on a really high dose of acid in the middle of a super hero fetish store. Trust me, it was way worse. I escaped with my life, that thing you hang your clothes on to dry and some candy for the bratty kids. [...] My innocence, though, is gone.
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P.S. - I ate at a real Korean restaurant the other day, the kind where there is a stove on your table and you have to sit on the floor. It cost $3.50 to fill me up. It will probably cost $5.50 to fill you up. Note: I drank free water.
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