Lincoln homies, swing into the nearest Union Bank branch for a free sack lunch. Here’s a pic of mine.
In this economy, I feel blessed to do business with a company that will give me one free hot dog per year.
I don’t play WoW – MTG fills the nerd niche for me, thank you – but I am often fascinated by people talking about their WoW adventures. The more seriously they take it, the more interesting it is to listen to them.
This news item popped up in my RSS feeds and it’s pretty funny to read when, like me, you have no idea what any of these terms mean.
Now, I respect Ensidia as a guild and all but this just reeks of irony considering they blatantly exploited Hodir and attempted to effectively burn the bridge for everyone else by reporting the bug right after; whether they’ll admit that this was their angle is another story. Zemme repeatedly attempts to justify this on their guild forums by differentiating the types of exploits and claiming that theirs was much less severe and how spell-stealing the Pollinate buff on each of their mages stacking up to 10 times each for 250% damage bonus resulting in 40k DPS doesn’t trivialize an encounter like evading Yogg adds. Good joke.
Hat-tip, SCS forum.
I could watch this vid all day. Good job, Mr. Ziegler.
Good column from Victor Davis Hanson at Real Clear Politics.
Is minority status deserving of government redress defined by some sort of claim of membership in groups that suffered past bias inside the United States?
Hardly. The University of California system, for example, not so long ago worried about too many Asians on its campuses. Yet Japanese-Americans were once put in internment camps and Chinese immigrants denied civil rights. Had Asians lost their aggrieved status because per capita they were doing too well? And does that suggest that race ipso facto is no longer a hindrance to success?
Perhaps the logic of government-mandated diversity instead hinges not just on redressing historical discrimination, but also on considering present-day racial bias.
Again, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Arab-Americans, for example, don’t qualify for affirmative action, but they’re hardly immune to discrimination here in the U.S.
In truth, in the 21st-century United States we don’t know what race exactly is, or its exact role in our own success or failure, much less the reasons how and why it should count for special government consideration.
In a radically changing America, which immigrants from Mumbai, Muslim Arab-Americans, or destitute newcomers from Croatia will the government reward on the basis of their skin color, poverty, lack of English or religion?
Great video from Pajamas TV.
I recently finished Bioshock on the 360, so I’ll be looking for a new game to play on the Xbox soon. On the DS side, I’m getting into these two, Retro Game Challenge and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
The DS continues to amaze. A quirky title like Retro Game Challenge is a pitch-perfect fit for the handheld. It’s got a charmingly bizarre framing device involving a disgruntled gamer “haunting” your DS, transforming you into a child and sending you back in time to play old-school video games with his own younger self. Can you tell it’s Japanese? You play authentically-styled NES-alike video games within the framing device, and you have to complete various challenges within those games. Sort of like, what if NES games had Xbox-style “achievements” to unlock.
On the other end of the spectrum is the new Grand Theft Auto DS game. Granted, I’ve only played a scant few missions so far, and I haven’t yet become adept at the controls, but my first impression is: Wow. They really nailed the GTA look and feel for the small-screen format. I love the traditional 2D stuff on the DS, like the Castlevania games, or the artier stuff like Professor Layton… but I think this GTA might be the DS equivalent of Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube. That is, a game that makes you wonder: “How did they get this game to run on this little system?”