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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:23:57 -0800

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This made me laugh vilely.

My Best COD4 Game Ever

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:02:05 -0800

I found this note on my desk that I jotted down from after a COD4 game on XBL. The note lists the highlights of what was my best single match ever. Since I’m bored at the moment and my Xbox is RRODed at the moment (and because, honestly, it was kind of epic), I’ll record it here for posterity (and to clean the note off my desk). If you’re not a COD4 player, this will make no sense to you. But since it was the first FPS I played online, I struggled for a long time at first to get the hang of it. I guess a match like this indicates I’ve reached some level of expertise (though my overall K:D ratio is still sorely less than one).

During this match, I scored:

25-1-2 final K:A:D ratio
Finished the RPD Expert challenges (getting the ACOG attachment for the RPD MG)
A killstreak of 15
Airstrike Veteran II (15 airstrike kills)
Afterburner challenge (call in an airstrike twice in a single match)
Air Superiority challenge (call in a helicopter twice in a single match)
Star Player challenge (finish a game with a 5:1 K:D ratio or better)

Strangely, I don’t recall the map I was on — it may have been Countdown (the missile silos) but I’m probably remembering a different game. I do recall getting challenge after challenge. They were coming so fast at some points that the accompanying music was becoming distracting. And my completing the RPD expert challenge indicates I was using the RPD for most of the map (why change up classes if what you’re using is working?). Ironically, I don’t really like the RPD much and I was probably just using it initially to round out the challenges because I’d already finished the M249 and M60.

Anyway, I’m a big nerd, but there it is.

"Even when a modern vice president is so irrelevant he can’t get his calls returned by the..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:56:52 -0800

“Even when a modern vice president is so irrelevant he can’t get his calls returned by the president’s valet, press can be relied upon to produce a hagiographic masterpiece about him, as Bob Woodward and David S. Broder did in January 1992 with a seven-part, 40,000-word, six-months-in-the-making Washington Post series about Vice President Dan Quayle. The series served as the foundation for their 1992 book, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle. Amazon lists 113 copies priced as low as 1 cent apiece, if you’re interested. They make excellent fire-starter.”

- Jack Shafer, in “The New York Times Magazine delivers a journalistic cliché in its Joe Biden feature” for Slate Magazine.

I laughed. The NYT Magazine piece on Biden seems interesting at first glance.

Subtle Torture

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:05:22 -0800

Subtle torture: Sitting on an exercise bike with a knee that won’t bend, watching people out the window ride their bikes, oblivious, across streetcar tracks in the sunshine.

via Ben Sargent at the NY Times

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:16:41 -0800

via Ben Sargent at the NY Times

Via www.explosm.net. Alternately, I’d rather go to the...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:48 -0800

Via www.explosm.net.

Alternately, I’d rather go to the dentist.

So funny.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:28:06 -0800

So funny.

This will be me in a few weeks or months. Via...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:11 -0800

This will be me in a few weeks or months. Via www.toothpastefordinner.com.

"Now we are faced with the daunting task of wrapping our minds around the Palin memoir Going Rogue,..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:22:57 -0800

“Now we are faced with the daunting task of wrapping our minds around the Palin memoir Going Rogue, appearing atop a bestseller list near you. Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.”

- “Ed” at ginandtacos.com

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:17:41 -0800

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via catandgirl.com. The correct answer is actually...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:25:07 -0800

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The correct answer is actually “coffee,” but the sentiment is correct.

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:12:40 -0800

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:08:47 -0700

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

- G. K. Chesterton, English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936).

defiantdog.com

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:47:12 -0700

defiantdog.com:

Site of the day — no, site of the week, by the gods. Maybe even site of the month.

"What to do? Today’s cycling activists generally split into two groups:..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:26:31 -0700

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What to do? Today’s cycling activists generally split into two groups: “vehicularists” and “facilitators.” Proponents of “vehicular cycling” believe bikes should act as cars: occupy full lanes, stop at red lights, use a hand signal at least 100 feet ahead of a turn. That’s the best way to make cars—and policymakers—aware of bicycles and to respect them as equals on the road. When it comes to making roads safe for bikes, vehicularists tend to favor training, education (most cities offer bike safety classes), and enforcement. Cyclists should not grouse about moving violations, the vehicularists argue. It is a sign that they’re being treated as equals.

Facilitators, meanwhile, say we should change the laws and the environment to recognize the innate differences between bikes and cars. That means special facilities like bike lanes, bike paths (elevated trails separate from the road), and even Copenhagen-style traffic lights for bikes. It would also mean changing car-centric laws that don’t make sense for bikes, like the rule that says you need to come to a complete stop at a stop sign.

”

- Christopher Beam How do we get bikers to obey traffic laws?. I’m probably more of a vehicularist than a facilitator but I’m a little of both.

Nation's Morons March On Washington State

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:21:04 -0700

Nation's Morons March On Washington State:

Throughout the day, the number of protesters grew to include not just morons, but more than 6,000 nimrods, 3,500 dunderheads, and approximately 12,000 of the biggest fucking dipshits known to man.

In all, 75,000 of the simpletons turned out, though dozens were killed after walking out into traffic, and hundreds more were lost after wandering into nearby Trillium Park.

Grade-A funny from The Onion.

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:22:14 -0700

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right:

An interview with Dave Neiwert of the orcinus blog, on his book and the rise of the radicalized “para-fascist” right wing movement in the USA. A subtitle of the interview might be “And How Organized Religion Can Be a Gateway to Oppression and Terror.” Jesus Christ please save me from your nominal followers.

"Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property Tuesday in Comal County when he noticed..."

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:10:39 -0700

“

Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property Tuesday in Comal County when he noticed a green metallic tube on the muddy ground.

“I had never seen it before,” said Schule, a 34-year-old Web developer. “I looked at it, and it kind of looked like a missile launcher.”

Schule took a closer look. It was a long, forest-green metal tube. A decal on it read: “Guided Missile and Launcher, Surface Attack.”

The discovery was the start of a surreal journey for Schule. Somehow, an unarmed anti-tank weapon — or a very good fake — wound up on his land at Beck Road and Kirk Lane in the Hill Country, miles away from a military installation. The launcher was deep in the wooded property far from the road, in an area he was familiar with.

“I don’t know if it fell out of something or if somebody just dumped it,” Schule said. “There’s some crazy whitetail hunters around here. Maybe they’re going overboard?”

Schule’s property in Comal County is vacant, and he didn’t want to leave a missile launcher unattended. So he loaded it in his truck and took it to his house in the North Side neighborhood of the Ridge at Lookout Canyon.

… Schule spent Tuesday afternoon calling the FBI, Homeland Security, the Sheriff’s Department — every agency he could think of. He was stuck in a bureaucratic limbo.

“Everyone was handing it off to everybody else,” Schule said.

He was surprised at the amount of work it took to get the military to pick up its lost missile launcher.

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- Man finds missile launcher in Comal County

"There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:37:00 -0700

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken.”

- Lynne Truss, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I side with the Oxfordians in this regard.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:10:28 -0700

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