Greg Maddux is a Dodger for the cost of Cesar Izturis. Will that be enough? Will the team regret ‘upgrading’ with Furcal at short? My guesses: No and yes.
Now that DG is back in action again, ToME is progressing nicely again.
I hope he takes my plot ideas and uses them. I mean, the item list isn’t quite going the way I hoped, though I to intend to finish the work I’ve started on the ToME 3 item list, but still: the more ToME 3 is like the game I’d write if I wrote it myself, the less I’ll have the urge to go write a new game in this style.
I hope Israel kills every member of that pack of animals.
Another new release today. I had to pull the Console though, because it’s a bit crashy. This annoyance is the first time I’ve been unhappy with Cocoa. It’s just a huge hassle to fork, capture stdout and stderr into pipes, and exec.
But it’s still a nice new release, especially if you like high resolutions.
The House is making it very hard for me to give the Republican party until 2008 to get its act together.
The Dodgers won a game! They actually won! Too bad they can’t count on getting 12 hits on their own and three errors from the other team every night.
Via Rob Kaper I ran into this odd story today: Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of PHP, quit because he hates that Israelis are funding the project. Since he wants that country to get nuked, he quit the project.
This makes me wish I could stand PHP, so I’d have reason to kick a few bucks to Zend!
He apparently left his real reason for quitting on a PHP IRC channel (_sniper_ is the name Taskinen apparently goes by on IRC; quote edited for some standards):
<_sniper_> hehehehe..
<_sniper_> all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it….Israel says the resolution was fair.
<_sniper_> hell yeah..
<_sniper_> NUKE ISRAEL!
<_sniper_> I’m so full of that [expletive deleted] country..
<_sniper_> Eye for an eye..I’ll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair?
<_sniper_> I bet I’ll be hanged for that.
<_sniper_> They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I’m entitled to kill one of their nazis.
<_sniper_> Hezbollah, where can I enlist?
<_sniper_> FYI: I don’t care at all what anybody thinks about me. I’m going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. [Expletive deleted] you jews.
<_sniper_> I will also quit this project. As long as it’s backed by some Israel company, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.
<_sniper_> Good bye.
<– _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl
Once in a while the Jew haters let slip that their hatred of Zionism is just a symbol something more. In a way we should be thankful that in his rage, Taskinen made that plain.
The Dodgers are starting to lose ugly. Apparently there was a dugout argument during the last loss to San Diego. Grady Little had best do something to keep the team from spinning apart in frustration.
I’m reminded of the Lakers under Frank Hamblen. After Rudy T left midseason, the team sputtered, then collapsed entirely. It was awful, and I’d rather not see it again, though it looks like just that kind of collapse.
American McGee shares a Microsoft horror story:
A few days ago Windows XP on my primary work computer decided that it wasn’t a legal copy. Strange since the copy running on there was pre-installed at the time that the machine was built by Alienware. There used to be a Windows serial number on the back of the machine, but the sticker has since fallen off. What’s worse, as soon as I started receiving the dreaded, “You may be a victim of software piracy…” notices, I also started noticing increased system instability. All of this culminated in what I can only assume was some form of malware infection, a hardware crash (related to my soundcard), and a pretty complete system failure.
His name would make this a perfect Simply American post, heh. Other than that though, you may wonder who cares about American McGee. The trick is that he’s a fairly important guy in the history of computer games:
Look toward the bottom of this screenshot of a new PrBoom feature: a nifty console to display all the stuff doom prints after it runs. McGee was there for Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom, designing maps 2-7, 14, and 22 for the former (yes, he did Dead Simple, to me the most memorable of Doom levels).
What he does will attract attention. Not as much as Carmack or Romero, granted, but some. So this is interesting.
Hoops Hype says that the Mavericks have just about got Devean George signed. Given that he was playing behind even Luke Walton these days, it’s not surprising to me that the injury-prone forward would have to look away from the Lakers this year.
Well he had a good run, even if he didn’t get the championship the year he started alongside O’Neal, Bryant, Payton, and Malone.