| Washington Post's best blogger fired |
[18 Jun 2009|08:57pm] |
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Washington Post fired Dan Froomkin today. What the fuck, WaPo?! You fired your best blogger, because his blog didn't "fit" and yet was consistently popular?!
What happened to the paper that dug and dug and brought down the Nixon administration for breaking the law? I wish I had a subscription to the physical paper so I could call them up and tell them why I'm cancelling.
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| Jeopardy! |
[05 Apr 2009|01:20am] |
So today I went to the Jeopardy tour at Montgomery College today. I wasn't really expecting to pass the test, and I didn't, but at least now I know what it's like. I definitely plan to try again, though. :)
For those wondering, the test was pretty basic; it was ten varied questions. If you want to try it yourself, take the third question from each category, and you have a fair idea of what it would be like.
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[29 Oct 2008|10:45pm] |
Supposedly if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. There are 270 films on this list. Copy it, paste it into a new post and then put x's next to the films you've seen. Add them up and post at the bottom. Have fun!
( Click for the List )
Just over the limit apparently. I must say this list is shit, though; I clearly have less of a life than Amber, and this loses by not reflecting it. Too many recent (and BAD) movies.
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| Update - Stupid Dangerous Driver Edition |
[06 Jun 2008|09:21pm] |
Driving home tonight I encountered what was quite possibly the biggest and most dangerous idiot I've encountered. I was driving home, heading down Piney Branch Parkway. I slowed down to stop at the all-way stop intersection at Beach Drive, when a woman in a white Volkswagen Passat blew through the intersection. She had the right of way because she'd have gotten there before me anyway, but still should have stopped. I turned onto Beach behind her, and began following her. She was going about 35 or so; speeding according to the speed limit but slightly below what most people travel at. Apparently she thought I was following her too closely (I was not tailgating), and decided to dead stop in the middle of the road, forcing me to break hard. She then continued to do that, well over 20 times, even past the Park Police station. People behind me were in the same situation; one turned off onto another road and another turned into the Park Police station. This continued until she finally turned off into a parking area (at way too fast a speed), and, as I passed on the main road, was shouting at me quite angrily.
Some people need to fucking relax.
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[04 Jun 2008|09:03am] |
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I am so incredibly tired and sore this morning. >_
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| Xenosaga 3 |
[22 Apr 2008|11:42am] |
I've recently been making my way through all the Xenosaga games (after I finished Xenogears for the tenth anniversary), which I'd never completed because I got stuck in XS2 back when it originally came out. Well, I finally made it through that, and I'm now on Disc 2 on XS3. It is, in a word, AWESOME. :D I'm kicking myself for not slogging through XS2 earlier so I could get to XS3 when it came out. The visuals are stunning and the music is by far Yuki Kajiura's best, IMO. The only downside related tot he music is I think some of the movie sequences used the wrong BGM (Godsibb in an exposition scene? WTF.) and the OST is only a "Best Selection" rather than a full OST. I've already identified two tracks in the game that I really wish had been included on the OST.
Anyway, I highly recommend the whole series to anyone who hasn't played it yet. Even 2, but that's just so you can get the most out of 3. :)
In other news, new art from Simosi!
http://walpurgisnacht.sakura.ne.jp/yuyuko.html
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| Silly Game, Round 2! |
[16 Mar 2008|02:56pm] |
Okay, this time there are five levels, each song more obscure than the previous one. Of course, what one person finds obscure, someone else may consider obvious and easy to identify. :) We'll see, though! On with the game!
Level 1
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xeresrazor got The Promised Land from Final Fantasy Pray!
Level 2
Unfortunately, no one got Slavonic Dance No.7, by Antonin Dvorak.
Level 3
maizie got Forces from Berserk!
Level 4
Unfortunately, no one got Gypsy from Orguss.
Level 5
turvy got Endless History from Ys!
-EDIT- Well, that's it! Game's over! Thanks for playing!
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[25 Feb 2008|10:25am] |
So I played Xenogears (being the tenth anniversary and all) pretty much all weekend, and now I'm considering building some of the ships and Gears out of Lego. Someone save me from overambitious projects, please!
I'd forgotten a lot of the details of the story, I'm sad to say, so replaying has been a lot of fun. :)
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[27 Jan 2008|12:41pm] |
Your Score: Older Futhark You scored
Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Thirty symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There's only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago.
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| Economic Stimulus (or lack thereof) |
[25 Jan 2008|03:46pm] |
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So when the Democrats sat down to negotiate for economic stimulus, they dropped plans for expanding the foodstamp program and unemployment payment program in exchange for the GOP dropping tax cuts for the wealthy and making Bush's earlier tax cuts permanent. So, in this compromise, the GOP gave up something that had virtually no stimulus potential whatsoever, while the Democrats gave up some of the *most* effective stimulus tools available. In this case, everyone loses. Most of the middle calls will just be using the money to pay off debt or putting it into savings, neither of which have much stimulus potential. I call upon everyone who can to put any rebate check they get into savings. Let's try our best to force our politicians to institute REAL economic stimulus if they want to stave off a recession.
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| Meme! |
[06 Jan 2008|10:30pm] |
89% Joe Biden
88% Dennis Kucinich
88% Barack Obama
87% Chris Dodd
87% John Edwards
85% Mike Gravel
84% Hillary Clinton
78% Bill Richardson
39% Rudy Giuliani
26% John McCain
21% Mitt Romney
19% Mike Huckabee
17% Tom Tancredo
16% Ron Paul
10% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
I'd have put Dodd and Kucinich above Biden, and Huckabee and Tancredo at the very bottom, but otherwise this seems pretty acurate.
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| Thermal incident! |
[21 Dec 2007|12:23am] |
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I was offline this evening due to a power outtage at my house. One of the outlets one the power line leading to my room with my computers melted, so we had to turn power off for a number of hours until it could be replaced. We're all fine, though, and there's no significant damage beyond a melted outlet and a melted string of Christmas lights.
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| How disturbingly prophetic |
[14 Sep 2007|11:01pm] |
"The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
-H.L. Mencken
Baltimore Sun
July 26, 1920
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| Legoland Park trip before AX |
[23 May 2007|08:59am] |
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I'm planning to take a trip down to Legoland before AX this year, and I just want to find out who is interested in going, so I have an idea of what kind of car to rent. I'll be heading down on Thursday the 28th. Any takers?
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| R.I.P. Lloyd Alexander |
[18 May 2007|06:40pm] |
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"Alexander died at his home under hospice care on May 17, 2007, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-one years."
;_;
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