Yearly Archives: 2005


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As the Digital World Turns

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Hillary Clinton via Kotaku: [About Grand Theft Auto] This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s OK to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different color or they’re from a different place.

That’s a crock of shit. In GTA you’re supposed to “diss” people regardless of their color, sex, or location. Everyone gets smacked around as equals, which is just about as unbiased as you can get. In fact, this reminds me of the hubbub about “hate crime”… I’ll never understand why a hate crime carries a heavier sentence than the crime itself. How is targeting someone for an assault for their color, sex or location worse than just random or justified assault? Either way, lock the son of a bitch up, and be done with it… why highlight a biased crime? Well, aside from the fact that the media can play up a hate crime better than they could a regular ol’ crime… Screw that: it should be the same heavy sentence regardless of intent or reason. I can’t believe that this is lost on the mass populous, much less the elected officials.

Then again, how can I take any elected official that uses “diss” in an official speech all that seriously?

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Pride or Poor Writing?

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One of the things that I decided to do with this blog is allowing comments to be posted in an un-molested form, quite unlike a 8 year old boy in Neverland mind. Wait, was that typed outloud? Sorry. Read too many RSS Feeds I guess. Anyway, when someone posts a comment here, I usually leave it alone, even if I don’t agree with them. I’ll remove them if they’re spam or just stupid (the occasional “fuck you” comment doesn’t stick around, unless there’s a reason for it – support your opinions and it will stick around!) or if there were repeats posted. Some of the threads here have over 120 posts to them – the D-Link or iTunes posts even have helpful tips for other users. This is a great, great thing.

So what does it say about a blog that removes your comments just because you don’t agree with the obvious “you should agree with us” opinion? Unless the thing got ate by a blog process (although I do remember seeing it there, after I confirmed) or something, I’d say it’s pretty darned lame.

Hella Lame.

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Halo 2 Update: New Maps in June!

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News is up on Xbox’s web site – looks like $20 add on with nine new maps for Multi-player use and some other stuff. Nothing like a new venue to even the odds between players!

Of course this means I’ll have to re-learn where the sword is on each level…

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“Imma Put The Man On You”

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Seattle Duck: Arriving there… and meeting Gene: First off, I got lost. Lived here 8 years, worked not 3 blocks from the place, still had no clue where it was. Drove around for 20 minutes until I finally figured it out ? “THAT is the restaurant everyone?s been yappin? about? You?re kidding right?”

I can’t believe I never got around to writing about my two visits to Dixie’s last year. Or the fact that The Man left a burnt stripe of skin across my cheek and down my throat, when I’ve never had happen before… and I didn’t take time to chew the cornbread that Gene had put the sauce on. Anyway, the ‘Duck tells it better than I could: I would require physical gestures and sound effects that are un-blogable.

Best BBQ in WA, in my opinion, and a required stop for any out of town visitors.

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Blog != (Podcast || vlog)

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Blogs are not the same as Podcasting or Vlogging.

I’ve noticed that there’s been a report around the blogsphere on coming vlog… vlogs? Video Web Log. Not to be confused with podcasting, which is an audio version of a web log, or blogging which is usually just text and still pictures.

Sneer. Technology will kill responsible blogging.
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Red Sox vs. Apple

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I was sitting on a bench at Redmond Town Center last night and I saw a most disturbing thing… a Red Sox fan. Now, now, relax – there’s a reason for me point it out. In fact, I think it helped me realize something about why I currently dislike both Red Sox fans and Apple fans…
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Post Dated Request

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MSNBC: Cardinal’s plea: Don’t read ‘The Da Vinci Code’ – Novel’s success is proof of ‘anti-Catholic’ prejudice, he says

Isn’t there a half life for protesting stuff like this? I mean, The Da Vinci Code has been out for a while. In fact, the main character was featured in Angels and Demons which is a loosely tied prequel. It’s certainly been out long enough to have a special “media” edition (that includes pictures of the artwork/places involved throughout the novel) and been optioned out to be a movie… the only media form missing is paperback, which I think is a smart move: the hardcover editions are still selling and it won’t dilute the sales of the special edition.

Honestly, when I first saw the article, I figure the Cardinal was after press or something – there’s no other reason to be bothering with this book by this point: it’s mainstream already. Someone should check the postmark on the complain… maybe it got shoved in a drawer by mistake or something.

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Bill of Unlawful Acts

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I was watching The O’Reilly Factor the other day and heard that the Supreme Court is currently hearing a case that’s all about the ten commandments being displayed in a government owned building… the ACLU is all over it of course. And since there our law dictates a separation of church and state, the might have a case. However, what’s sort of being lost in the noise is the fact that the ten commandments represents a fundamental code of conduct that is already embedded in our society. Or at least should be in our laws, instead of our ongoing trend of “do whatever you want and get out of punishment with lawyers” that our nation has adopted… so instead of the ten commandment, why not have a Bill of Unlawful Acts?
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Baka!

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Confession: a new [to me] manga series sucked me in over the past seven couple of weeks and has eaten up a bunch of lunch hours… Usually, when I bump into a new manga collection that can keep my interest, it involves a massive spending spree on imported/translated books through multiple Borders visits, and I read’m during nighttime hours… This new series – MegaTokyo – is released via the web, so it’s free, much like RedVsBlue is [another one of my favorites, altho that’s more cartoon than anime/manga], but it requires a computer to read’m online… 685 episodes later and not only am I up to date with the story, but I’m hooked.
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Horny Digital Dumbass

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Reuters: A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported — minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported Tuesday.

You won’t believe the rest of the article… simply put, he hopped on a bus in California and crossed the border in Manitoba. Problem is his girlfriend is in Quebec, so he missed the proper province by 1600 miles. Add to this the fact that he couldn’t cross the border legally because he robbed a Pizza Hut in Arkansas …in 1984.

That’s a man that’s hard up for a woman… of course now that he’s losing his fingers from frost bite, he’s going to need a woman, seeing as “self service” is no longer an option for the guy.

Poor bastard.

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Not Quite Twins

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BWG: Tired of press speculation that her breast measurement is smaller than that of Gillian Chung Yan-tung (鍾欣桐) — her singing partner in the Cantopop duo Twins — Charlene Choi Cheuk-yin (蔡卓妍) set a great example for young women everywhere. […]Look at some of the stars at the Oscars the other night. They’re flat-chested but they all look so cool in their gowns. If more women though the way she did, fewer would get sucked into the belief that implants are the perfect solution.

Well said, Randall.

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I Dub Thee Macy’s

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The Bon Marché is officially gone. The flirtation with the Bon-Macy’s has been put to bed – no surprise in that – and as near as I can tell, almost all Federated Department Stores owned stores are now simply called Macy’s; they also own Bloomingdale’s and as strong as the Macy’s brand is, Bloomies has a cult following on it’s own.

What’s it matter?
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