You are browsing the archive for October 2003.
Now. Jack:
bq. No one doubts the efficacy or value of having a place where those who belong to minority groups can get together and share experiences or merely commiserate. Of course, this all goes straight out the window if you happen to be White and decide that you want to start a Caucasian Club… So, the [...]
Let’s start with Bubba, who’s concerned about violence in video games:
bq. Why they can’t design games that teach kids how to program a computer or play music or solve math problems or something is beyond me. Sure it sounds boring, but they’ve been pretty creative at making sickening gore and violence “fun” and “entertaining”, so it [...]
I had to double-check both web sites again. You know, just to make sure I was reading what I thought I was reading. If I was older, I’d probably say “Can you believe this folderol?” But since I’m not quite that old, what escaped my lips was essentially unprintable.
Has there been an “opposite day” declared [...]
I’ve spent some time this morning digging through my spam files. After some nasty instances of my spam filter slaying email from genuine clients, I changed over to SpamAssassin and have all suspected spam tossed in a seperate location. Later I go through there and check it out. Usually I just delete the stuff with [...]
Since I am so damned wordy, John asked me back (me being Stacy, Patience, whoever you wanna call me from unqiuesnowflake.com) to post my reallyultralongandcomplicated comment.
And yes, this post officially reveals that I am an extreme geek.
Insufficient Marketing Opportunities: In the real world, you also don’t have groups of twelve and thirteen year olds playing the game [...]