I can’t believe this. First Gagné is out for the season, and now the Dodgers are 1-7 since the All-Star break! This is ridiculous!
The President’s long streak is over: He finally vetoed a bill. This first swipe took down HR 810, a bill to spend taxpayer dollars on embryonic stem cell research.
Good job! Now we just need a veto on the billion dollar pork shold it pass.
Rob wants to know if I’ve met any notable people. Well let’s see…
- I was standing right there when Patrick Volkerding came by the KDE booth at Linux World in San Francisco.
- In high school I went with a group down to Admiral James Stockdale’s home to interview him about his experience as a Vietnam POW.
- When I was 5 and in the hospital for heart surgery, Rod Carew and some other Angels came by and signed autographs.
That’s about it.
Florian Schulze pushed out the new PrBoom on Sunday. This is the big Mac release, with the fixed sound effects crash, fixed music, and the new Cocoa launcher.
It’s no wonder that as of right now, PrBoom-2.4.2.dmg has 262 downloads to prboom-2.4.2-win32.zip’s 201.
Muzzling private citizens while giving exemptions to newspapers who give free advertising to campaigns *and their websites*, under cover of writing a news story, is unacceptable.
I wonder if I should go ask this Democratic challenger some tough questions since he’s just going to be in town and all.
I picked up Gradius V a good while back, but only yesterday got around to playing all the way through. The reason of course is that I play that game as it is designed: like an old arcade game. I play for points, not to win, which is good because playing to win in that game is just absurd.
I was curious, though, so today I sat down and played through the game in some sense. I’d played so many hours that “free play” was on, so what I really did was just keep dying and continuing until the game was over.
And now that I’ve done it, overall I have to say the game is disappointing. The movie scenes are annoying, the new weapon options you get after winning are weak, and too many parts of the game are unplayable without massive upgrades.
It’s a good thing I won’t ever even SEE half the game playing it my way: once through, without continues, to maximize score.
No I’m not censoring it, because I think this is history. About Israel, President Bush said this to Prime Minister Blair:
See, the irony is what they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.
Thought for the day: I don’t care if Greece is in NATO or not. Macedonia is Macedonia, not “FYROM” or other such nonsense.
The comics I read, ordered roughly by frequency of publishing:
- Foxtrot
- Sheldon
- Pearls Before Swine (Provisional)
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (not family friendly)
- Real Life
- Evil Inc.
- Starslip Crisis (Provisional)
- Megatokyo
- Krakow
- Chugworth Academy (not family friendly)
- Red Meat (not family friendly)
- Perry Bible Fellowship (not family friendly) Interim location
- Tang’s Weekly Comic (not family friendly)
- Mac Hall
- Life on Forbez
It may sound silly that I’m thinking of some comics as provisionally on my list, but when you have that many to check on every day, it’s probably important. And I do actually drop comics that I try for a while. Applegeeks, User Friendly, PVP, and The Wotch are four I stopped reading after a little while because I decided they just weren’t worth it, for example.
Dropped provisional comics are of course distinct from those comics I had to drop because they got too political in 2004: Sinfest (not family friendly) and Little Gamers (not family friendly).
Yes, I like comics. Maybe one day I’ll write up reviews of all of these comics and more.
I’m always on the look out for new comics to add to my list, so Pearls Before Swine is one I’m reading now on a trial basis. Some of it is really weird, but some of it really makes me laugh in a way few comics do. Try this for example:
