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Otter likes to run and watch GMA as the start to her day. The discussion today was on Sarah Palin as a VP pick for McCain and some of the Obama responses to her selection. “Inexperience” and “cynical political ploy” were gist of the discussion from what I heard. This brought up a connection in my mind that I haven’t seen anywhere else that is really relevant since Obama says Bush is really McCain’s running mate:

Obama looks a lot like George Bush right now. In order to overcome a derth of experience at the national level, he selected an old Washington hand (Biden, Cheney) to take care of that. Given how well Cheney has worked out in being too active in the government, isn’t a neophyte in the VP slot a better choice? Hell, Bush at least had some executive experience which is what Palin has as a previous mayor and governor in Alaska. No one else on either ticket can say that.

I think this election season is going to be very interesting.

E: Dang it, other people are smarter than me. Of course, the author also points out a lot more points of congruence between Obama and Bush. Agent of More of the Same, here we come!

Tags: Funny, Politics by uruloki
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I got into the Closed Beta for WAR finally, and had a great time. Then the Preview Weekend hit, and I started to get hit with CTDs, lag, and other wonky server behavior. The Scenario servers liked to make me wait for 15-20 minutes and then give the “2 minutes to server shutdown” message when we’re about 20% into it. So, I’m going to wait to play WAR until the Head Start kicks off, especially since all the work in beta gets wiped and I hate to waste work.

Meanwhile, we had a nifty one-shot on Brutallus (only our second kill) in WOW. Ugly, ugly kill, but a kill nonetheless after a two-shot on Kalecgos. Unfortunately, all of the WOW servers in what looks like our battle group are now experiencing lag and DC’s, which means no loot and no continuing the raid. Today’s random intersection: crappy servers, I hate you all!!

Tags: Gaming, Technology by uruloki
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When Season 4 started in July, I knew there were a few things that I would probably never get such as the

. I included some of the honor stuff in that list like since I had never even sniffed a 1575 rating. Well, I did manage a 1600 rating, and promptly got my new honor bracers.

After the raid tonight, I looked at the bracer upgrades I could find on Wowhead using the weighting system. The PVP bracers with epic gems come out ahead of my

, so I went ahead and grabbed 20 WSG tokens out of my bank, rushed into Org, and bought the PVP bracers. I didn’t realize what I had done until I went back to the bank to gem and enchant them, followed by grabbing all the other PVP gear in preparation for a quick BG daily. The very last piece I grab out of my bank is the pair that I already had, gemmed and enchanted. headdesk I’d completely forgotten them.

The lesson for today is that you should never be good enough to be in that position. Or maybe it’s to double-check before you jump. I’ve never been good with lessons…

Tags: Funny, Gaming, Stupid people by uruloki
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I don’t know about you, but when I’m driving in an area with little to no traffic signage or other guidelines I’m usually much more cautious. It turns out that pretty much everyone is:

A year after the change, the results of this “extreme makeover” were striking: Not only had congestion decreased in the ­intersection—­buses spent less time waiting to get through, for ­example—­but there were half as many accidents, even though total car traffic was up by a third. Students from a local engineering college who studied the intersection reported that both drivers and, unusually, cyclists were using ­signals—­of the electronic or hand ­variety—­more often. They also found, in surveys, that residents, despite the measurable increase in safety, perceived the place to be more dangerous.

It would be interesting if some of his theories could be applied in here in the U.S. rather than increasing the number of traffic cameras while shortening the yellow lights to make money.

Tags: Life, Technology by uruloki
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I’ve been trying to get into the Closed Beta for Warhammer Online for a very long time now, but now that I am in it’s taking me more than 72 hours to download the client. This is because Mythic followed the brokeass Blizzard model of distroing stuff over Bittorrent. It barely works for any patch larger than 100 MB for Blizzard, but Mythic thought it would be a good idea for a freaking 9 GB directory of uncompressed files.

And yet, I leave my computer on all day to download it. Who the idiot again?

Tags: Gaming by uruloki
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Otter and I were on one of our rare window-shopping expeditions to the mall when I noticed the Kryptonite for my particular penny-saver: Bath and Body Works. Fortunately, she’s only really interested in their goods when they are on sale, which is unfortunately all the damn time. This particular trip the store was already out of all her favorite scents and such so she walked out empty handed. I on the other hand ended up with four items. Sure, I can claim they were all guy items (Mentha Wash!) and on sale, but the fact remains that I got stuff at Bath and Body Works and she didn’t.

Couple that with the fact that my favorite item from WotLK(Wrath of the Lich King) is the fact that pets and mounts go in your skill book, and I may be peeking out of the closet.

Players will be able to “learn” a mount or non-combat pet much like learning a spell, recipe, or new ability, and these creatures will then show up on a new Pet tab within the Character Info section of the interface. Players will be able to access and preview their learned mounts and vanity pets through this tab.

Tags: Funny, Gaming by uruloki
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