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I love this wireless stuff. Now, I’m not as bad as the puppy-blender, who blogs from car dealerships, restaurants, and anywhere he can think of, but being able to write this while playing WoW in the airport is pretty cool.
I love this wireless stuff. Now, I’m not as bad as the puppy-blender, who blogs from car dealerships, restaurants, and anywhere he can think of, but being able to write this while playing WoW in the airport is pretty cool.
Instead of ranting and raving about the latest foreign asshat to criticize us, I have some fun links for you to follow and laugh over.
First, we have A World of Warcraft Christmas Carol from the guys at Gamespy. They also repost Penny Arcade’s A Christmas Carol from way back in the day. (
Then, newbs need to take note of what not to do in a group. Especially if you’re a healer class. Hopefully, at least one lesson (beyond the obvious) was learned. Otherwise, the druid may end up meeting someone like this.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I just looked at the site in IE. Why didn’t anyone tell me that it looks borked? It wasn’t looking quite right in Firefox (the header has a gap between it and the top of the page), but the border in IE jumps down and impinges on other layout elements.
Fix coming later rather than sooner, but that’s what you get when you have a hack (ie, plays with the same stuff, but nowhere near good enough to be a hacker) running things around here.
Seems that snarky is the mood around here today. Sometimes, you gotta work with what you’ve got though…
And yes, I’ll put myself in the Stupid People section once again…
I tried to watch Earthsea, I really did. Unfortunately, I thought it took all the cool stuff from Le Guin’s books and gutted them in order to fit it into four hours. Le Guin didn’t like it either…
I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don’t notice, don’t care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being “colorblind.” Nobody else does.
Ok, so she was just pissed that they didn’t use ethnic actors in it. I can understand about having your character who thousands all over world know in a certain way, changed. But the snarkiness about the privileged whites? Please. Make an argument about how the story was chopped up, but please don’t base everything on the color of the actors. I mean, isn’t that what you guys wanted in the first place: equal footing? I’m one of those who didn’t notice what Ged looked like, because I don’t care about what they look like. He used to be real to me, but now he’s a prop in someone’s “neverending quest to save their girlfriendethnicity of choice.”
This kinda goes back to my earlier complaints about the SciFi channel. Why can’t they do proven good materiel, like Firefly, instead of the (sucky) movie of the quarter? And, yay for them, they’re putting Battlestar Galactica on. Whoop-de-frickin’ do. That show sucked in the beginning, the movie sucked, and the series sucks.
Normally, Frank J is a smart man (except in the normal male case of the woman he is interested in), but this time he’s wrong:
Whatever the reason, I want my jokes back. You can take my guns, but, please, leave me my funny.
Whatever. I’ll keep my guns, and take back my funny by shooting them in the foot.*
*Please note this does not condone the shooting of any government people, or anyone else either. Unless they are lawyers. They’re evil.
Ok, the next time that Bolitho says, “here, let’s do this quest,” for the fifth time, I need to say “no.” Bed at 0800 = Wakeup at 1530. Which, of course, means that I was too late to get into the commissary for the Christmas ham. Dominoe’s Delivers.
The old “queue up the music machine on random, and see what comes out” list:
And there you go, a non-WoW, non-politics posts. The non-politics part is easy, since I am hating politics right now, but the WoW obsession must be slaked…
Wretchard of the Belmont Club does a good job covering the aftermath of the mess hall attack and the manner in which the MSM gives the terrorists a free pass:
The enemy chose the weakest point he could find to attack; exploited the known limitations of the American response; and understood that he was to all intents and purposes exempted from the condemnation attendant to attacking the wounded and medical personnel. The chaplain and the medical personnel knew this and did not mill around expecting the Geneva Convention to protect them from those who have never heard of it, except as it applies to their own convenience. They knew the true face of the enemy; a face which bore no resemblance to the heroic countenance often presented by the media to the world. (Emphasis mine)
On the ride to and from airport, I was listening some to Paul W. Smith filling in for Sean Hannity, and the discussion was about attacking a “non-military” target. This is unfortunate that even those who support us in the fight don’t always understand what exactly is a target and what isn’t. The original target, the mess tent, is a legitimate target. The next target, the hospital, is not a legitimate target. Of course, that legitimacy does not matter to our enemies (which is the point of Wretchard’s post), but the people on our side need to know what are targets as well.
A mess tent is a part of the logistics tail of any army. The psychological benefits of taking out something so basic to moral as a mess tent are not to be underestimated. When in combat, it is impossible to maintain a high tempo of operations. An important part of the recovery and preparation to go out and do it again is to have that mess hall, where you can get cooked food and not MREs, and sit with your buddies and relax a little bit. That piece of peace for the soldiers is now broken. This goes just as well for the HQ guys, who (normally) have lesser day-to-day contact with the enemy.
The mess tent does fall under the definition of a legitimate target per the Geneva Convention. Attacking the mess tent was therefore, based upon this and the previous discussion, a good tactical decision by the terrorists. A similar, fictional, scenario can be found in Freehold, by Michael Williamson.
Wow. If that’s not a case for parity (e.g. “Any team can beat another team on any given SundayMonday.”), I don’t know what is.
Their running back quit, their coach resigned and their season is in a shambles. But for some reason the Miami Dolphins kept trying against the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, even when they trailed by 11 points with three minutes left.
And so the Dolphins staged a stunning comeback Monday night. With Tom Brady’s ugly interception providing an opening, Miami scored two touchdowns in the final 2:07 to beat the Patriots 29-28 Monday night.