A short video game review

So. Rock Band?
Easily the most fun I've had gaming with friends since those bygone days of Crash Team Racing on the Playstation.
Possibly the most fun you can have on a console, period.
It's pricey, sure, but for that $170 you get roughly eight megatons of pure compressed ROCK.
Buy it. Or go in on it [...]

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Hmm…

Yay: I have another Perseverance audition (I guess they're still in need of cast members for the rest of the season) Sunday at 10:30 AM.
Boo: That means I have roughly two and a half days to memorize and practice a monologue and a song. (I'm thinking “The Children's Hour” by Alan Moore [...]

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A letter to my grandmother in response to a chain letter

Grandma,
This is an interesting email, and certainly one of the more reasonable-sounding ones I've seen on the subject. I wonder if you've thought its logic through, though.
But first, the Snopes links that I'm sure you expect from me by now:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/lincolncent.asp
Interestingly, they don't seem to have a page directly addressing the apparently-widespread belief that the [...]

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Quick update

Back from Thanksgiving vacation, which was wonderful. The flight back on Sunday, however, was bordering on “horrendous” – but then, it probably serves us right for flying on a peak day. *sigh* At least it's over and we got here, even if it was eight hours late and after a four-hour puddle-jumper [...]

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Stuff, and more stuff

Brian recently bought Final Fantasy VI for the Game Boy Advance, which I've found myself rather more excited about playing than I thought I'd be. I played through part of it a few years ago on the Final Fantasy Anthology version for the Playstation, but at that point I'd already played through Chrono Trigger [...]

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Totally Not the Daily Show, With Some Writer Who's Not Getting Paid For This

Now that we've had the serious discussion, let's trot out the snark!
Also courtesy of .

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Bad days and good weekends

So last Friday ended up being sort of an awful day. Part of it was spending most of the day in a state somewhere between denial and anger over the waterboarding thing, which sort of surprised me – I'm not the sort of person to fume over things for long periods. In this [...]

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Courtesy of <lj user=cyranocyrano>:

Possibly one of the most eye-opening essays I've ever read. If you are at all fuzzy on why the writers' strike is going on right now, give it a read. And then think, very hard, about where we as a culture would be without someone to write stories for us.
http://tightropegirl.livejournal.com/16033.html

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Mmmm…

New favorite snack: Tillamook Garlic & Chili Pepper Medium Cheddar Cheese on Club crackers, with a glass of Smoking Loon Cabernet Sauvignon.
Delicious. With a capital “Delicious”.

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Random things, both trivial and opposite…

–Made it on the treadmill, at four MPH, all the way through The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. My legs felt like they were going to fall off, but that was okay, because I met my goal a week earlier than I thought I would. In the words of the inimitable Lester [...]

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