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Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Blair agrees war ‘not being won’
“[T]he situation in Iraq “grave and deteriorating” and said the current US approach was ‘not working’.”
No shit Sherlock.
Read the auction description very carefully. Now, look at the price for the winning bid. What a fucking moron! You just paid $460 for a BOX. What the hell. Maybe the auction is a result of a bunch of friends just playing around. Boy we can only hope, right? If it wasn’t a gag auction and some just paid that much for a box, they are going to be mighty angry.
I actually sent a message to the seller. If he/she responds, I’ll let you know.
Turns out the auction is real. Wow…
What I sent to the seller:
Did you really sell that box to someone for $460 or is this a gag?
What the seller told me:
I don’t know. I just listed the box and they bid on it. Frankly, I think the ending bid may have been a gag by the high bidder… If so, I’ll just have to report them to eBay. This was a real auction. I’m just as surprised as you that people actually bid on it. Shrugs.
Some people… wow… just… wow.
The Wii that Lexy got lucky on snatching from Amazon came in today. So, I hooked it up, turned it on, and it worked! May not be a surprise to any of you, but it’s nice when you get a console in the mail and it works when you hook it up. Just gives you a sense that you did something good and all that crap. Dawn and I have been playing around with the thing for a while now, playing ‘Wii Sports’ which Dawn said looked dumb. Well, she’s having fun now, so pttthhhbbbt. In case you are blind, there is a picture here that shows you a vague size comparison of the Xbox 360 and the Wii. As you can see, the Wii is much smaller than the 360. The controller, which I didn’t take a picture of, definitely takes some getting used to, but once you do, it can make playing a lot of fun. Now we just need to get some more Wiimotes and ‘chucks. Lexy ordered another three Wiimotes, so Wii Sports will be more fun. If anyone out there has a Wii, you can add me to your Address Book. Our Wii number is: 3254 4471 9179 3585. Ok, back to Wii.
I know I have adding a lot of posts today, but you’ll get over it. ;)
I added a new plugin for Wordpress called Subscriber2. This will send you an email when I have updated and added a new post. I can understand if some of you wouldn’t want to do this, and the good news is you don’t have to. If you only want to read posts from a certain category, you can do that too. All of you who are already registered, all you have to do is set your Subscriber categories to those categories you want to be notified of. You can also have the entire post emailed to you so you don’t have to visit my site, but if you are like me and like to look at this beautiful work I’ve done, you can have an excerpt sent to you as well.
I have also adjusted the login file so when you login you will be directed right back to the homepage rather than your profile. This should make logging in to comment much more fluid.
If you haven’t… Do it.
I’ll give Dawn props (don’t let it go to your head) on an awesome find. It’s a pretty fun little game that gives you an idea of how hard it is to run a country. If any of you start a new nation and want into my region, look for the ‘Union of Imperialist States’. You don’t have to be Imperialist, it’s just a name I decided on that sounds cool. If you want to check out some example countries, check out:
Cody’s (Lexy’s little brother)
That should give you a pretty good idea of the kinds of nations that you could create. There are many options and it’s pretty fun.
Something that I’ve come up with that I think would be very interesting (and John agrees) is to create one nation and have a bunch of people debate and discuss how the nation should be run. With so many methods for running a country, it would be so interesting to see how a country like that would progress. We could even use TeamSpeak or Skype for daily or weekly debates on issues. I could create a website where I would post each issue and the choices as they appear so everyone could see it and then we can discuss them. I know it sounds way more involved than it should, but it could be fun and it’s an activity that everyone could do. Think about it, tell me what you think and we’ll see where this goes.
Man, I do love the Science Channel. It is just awesome. The have some super sweet shows occasionally. Right now, I am watching this show about the Earth without a Moon. It turns out that we are actually losing the Moon. It is actually moving away from the Earth at 1.5 inches per year. That means that in my lifetime thus far, the Moon has receded from Earth by ~2.875 feet. That may not seem that much, but something that has started it’s lunar life 14,000 miles away and is now 234,000 miles from Earth. When the Moon was formed by a body called Orpheus colliding with Earth twice, Earth’s days were only 4 hours long and as the Moon moves away, each day gets a little longer. We are actually living on an Earth that was hit by a body called Orpheus. Orpheus acted as a giant Reset button. It’s kinda complicated but Leonard Nimoy makes it make sense. The show is called If We Had No Moon and it’s kinda dumbed down, but I guess it needs to be for those who couldn’t understand the more advanced aspects of this concept. Apparently if we had no moon, the Earth would wobble like Mars. We would wobble between our normal 23 degree axis to around 90 degrees. This means the poles would move to around where the equator is now and the equator would become the new poles. At least for a while. Without a Moon we would shift climates multiple times a year. This is just awesome.
We don’t actually have it yet. Lexy managed to snipe one from Amazon.com last night. She got the one day shipping so we should have it by Saturday or Monday. Now, we just have to get some Wiimotes and some Nunchucks. Thankfully, we already have “The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess” for the Wii and the system comes with one Wiimote and a ‘chuck. So we can play Zelda… and that’s always good.
Dawn got a job too. Then she promptly came into the living room and inadvertently rubbed it in my face. Granted she is working at the Break Time up the street, which is a gas station and I am still as unemployed as I was when I moved here. What the hell? Why the fuck can’t I find a job, but everyone else who moves here can? I’m almost at the point of just giving the fuck up and resigning myself to a life of being unemployed. I really do hate how unemployable I am.
