ArcoMage

Years ago there was a game, and the game was good. Might and Magic by EDO was the game – it was a four-person-party first-person-shooter slash RPG game and it was always (1) a hoot, (2) large, and (3) interesting.  It could take you HOURS just to get to this little itty-bitty teeny area only [...]

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Duré Wept

A faithful minion over at O’Boy and Asshattery – The Snark Years (dat’s Steamboat McGoo to those who know him)… the faithful minion, cbullitt, has passed on information that is disturbing and grievous. The Hyperion Cantos – a four book set that so richly describes a world that it is hard to encompass it all without [...]

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An American Zombie in Texas

Gosh this was a fun news article. Zombies ahead! Huh.  I would have thought that this would be applicable in any educational institution.  Or anywhere that Congress-Critters congregate. ******** A grandmother baking cookies with her grandchildren?  Oh I think not.  Perhaps if they were animal cookies with live animals. Pelosi, now that she has some [...]

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Screwing Our Economy Back From the Brink

Ok, anyone who is anyone has seen the Drudge headline… $335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL Wed Jan 28 2009 09:58:30 ET Democrats may have eliminated provisions on birth control and sod for the National Mall in the “job stimulus” — but buried on page 147 of the bill is stimulation for prevention [...]

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Blogger Down for Maintenance…

Ok.  Posing a question here. How do you know that you are old? Well? (No, that pic has nothing to do with this post) Ok, I’ll tell you how. You know you are getting old when you arch your back and stretch with your arms up over your head and twist just so and POP [...]

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Chipmunks and Other Miscellaneous Chatter

Update: I know, I know, hard to believe, but just because you’re from Michigan it does not mean that you are a mental giant. **** So, last Sunday I’m sitting there with Girlhead on the couch and we’re watching Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.  Now, if you are not familiar with this show the guy [...]

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Carbon Buttprint

The latest pants-wetter globular worming announcement by Penn State University shows that us doubting “contrarians” (their words, not mine) are just wrong wrong wrong. They show this colorful picture (color is more cinematic and enhances my wrongness): Wow.  The colors mean we’re extra-wrong, right?  Oh gee. Now, lets compare that to the volcanic range underneath [...]

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Thoughts from a Passing Irate Co-Worker.

Update 1:  Now I am offended.   And more than a little pissed off.  It’s like we don’t live in the same country. Benediction at Obama ‘s inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: ‘Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to [...]

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The True Nature of Entitlement – in Part

Note: Some of this is entirely debatable since the issue is so very complex.  I welcome additional thoughts, even dissenting thoughts, provided they are respectful and non-combative. Capitalism is supposed to work both ways. 1)  It increases competition between companies to provide a product or services that are most attractive to consumers – either in [...]

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Our business models are sick.

Sick and they have to change. The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked [...]

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Everyone has their price…

Update: Holy sheep shi… stuff.  Down to -7.6F and still dropping… the night is still young.   Starting to really notice where the house has leaks.  If you come to SE Michigan, keep your brass monkey indoors.    01.16.09 – 00:22 hrs Listening to my old Berlin album (Best of Berlin, actually) – The Masquerade, You Don’t [...]

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Obscenities Mar the Inauguration

The obscenity is the price tag of the inauguration. Yeah, this makes sense in days of bailouts, record debt, and congress throwing money away like drunken sailors. (Bernanke, too) Especially in the days when the porn industry is asking for handouts. Really, they are. Well, it’s better to spend lots of money on this than [...]

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A Quote to Chew Your Teeth to Stubs On.

Not going to post much as I have business travel coming up.  This’ll rock you back on your heels.  It was in the Patriot Post today. “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper, 29 November [...]

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