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June/July
2003
Neither a Rhode,
nor an Island
July 17
Heya folks, the site design's
coming along, so why don't you just take a gander at how
it looks so far. Don't worry, I wont tell
anyone.
Okay then, just got back from Big
Bear Lake, where I saw neither big bears or big
lakes. What I did see was a rather interesting and
anachronistic arcade.
I enjoy arcades. I'm not an
expert at any of the games within them, but I enjoy
their feel, especially if they have a sense of history
about them. I always make it a point to enter any
arcade I come across, and was not disappointed with this
offering. First of all, it's old school to a
fault. I would have to say there were 4 Ms. Pac
cabinets, along with, Galaga, Centipede, you name
it. It even had a actual, honest to goodness
shooting range. A real one. Like those ones
at Disneyland.
I'm usually drawn to fighting
games, and was taken aback at the range of titles.
They had Karate Champ. Karate Champ.
Forget about outdating Street Fighter II, it outdates me.
This is the absolute first fighting game ever ;
and less than twenty feet away is Tekken 4. Talk
about covering a time range, though curiously, there
were no Street Fighter titles amongst the Fatal Fury I's,
and Mortal Kombat III's.
There were also gun games, racing
games, an entire wall of skee-ball machines, and a Dance
Dance Revolution Variety X, so you've pretty much got
all the bases covered. It also doubled as a game
store with handful of previous generation games lined
up.
I wished I lived next to a place
like this.
I'm creepin', I'm
creepin', I'm creepin'!
July 14
Lots of things going on in Free
Country, USA. A new characters page is up,
including everyone in top form. If you can find
the (easily found) extra, there's even a Homsar
page! You might say they were saving the best for last.
Add to that a
CGNU t-shirt and honest to Gourd
figurines at the
store, and we have
a winner.
A site re-design might also be on
the horizon, so get in your last gazes if you're
particularly fond of how it looks now.
News at 8:52,
Pacific Time
July 12
"Stay tuned for
details" usually suggests proceeding information,
but what are you going to do?
Wario Ware, A The
Cheat and Homsar t-shirt, a CD case, and an arcade
stick kept my birthday full of new possesions. I
took the opertunity to share some of them with my friend
Brandon, whose house I visited for the first time.
It seems every o'clock is shirtless o'clock at the Murry
household, which was to my chagrin I suppose, I'm still
not sure. My opinions on shirtlessness aren't very
well formulated.
You say it's your
birthday
July 6
Well it's my birthday too.
I stayed at the Palms last night,
thanks to another's free room offer, and ate at the
Bellagio's buffet as well. Actual birthday
celebration is forthcoming, so stay tuned for details
and such.
Out of the Navy
July 3
Even more Seatbelts
reveiwage for you, if that's still what you're into.
I won't Annapolis until Thursday,
so that's where I won't be.
Muny
July 1
Rather then tell you where I've
been for the last two weeks (Annapolis and Alberta), I'm
going to comment on how the twenty-dollar bill has
monopolized the American currency system.
The twenty-dollar bill is
possibly far the most extensively used unit of currency
in America today, discounting coin- operated
machines. It is so prevalent, that it seems all
other bills and coins exist to aid in the exchange of
twenty dollar bills. Anyone in retail and service
jobs can tell you this. Purchases exceeding 100
dollars employ credit cards, and I haven't seen a 50
dollar bill in circulation for years. Thus,
consumers use twenty-dollar bills where things are
bought using actual money. Even things that cost
thee dollars or so are purchased using them.
The irony is that Andrew Jackson
is one of the worst presidents to put on legal
tender. He was notoriously distrustful of the
National Bank, and moved to have it disbanded.
There's also the fact that he really wasn't that great
of a president, although he's certainly an important one
in terms of effecting future leaders.
In the Navy
June 13
More Seatbelts
reveiwage for you, if that's what you're into.
I'll be Annapolis until Thursday,
so that's where I'll be.
The Subway
June 11
...was the name of the hike I
went to while I was gone in Utah for the express purpose
of doing said hike. It featured swimming and
repelling, two non-standard hike elements which I have
not experienced in a hiking environment. We were
going to bike, but the hike was more important, so we
hiked the hike and spiked the bike because the hiking on
the hike made use too tired to bike.
I also got a 126 on that
"Test the Nation" thing they did on Fox, so
all y'all best recognize and so forth.
3, 2, 1 Let's
Jam....Again
June 7
Remember when I wrote about
getting all those
Cowboy Bebop CDs? No? Well then just head on down a few
posts and read what's what. Or just read my
review of the first album. Up to you.
Reviews of each album will appear
at a later date which is not now.
I don't know why
you say goodbye
June 5
Soooooooo, school's out.
That's definitely something. I'm
going to start putting up some more content now that the
summer's here. I can't hide behind the school
-work excuse anymore, and writing something of my own
choosing might prove beneficial.
(Please stand by for topic
change)
Humanity has really worked itself
into a corner concerning this whole world peace idea
with this language thing we've got going on. Not
so much concerning diplomacy and such, we have
translators for that. No, the problem lies with
our ability to empathize with those who speak
differently than we do. Speaking coherently and
clearly is what we base our perceptions of someone's
intelligence on
*coughourcurrentstandingpresidentcough*. It
doesn't matter what's going on in your head, if you
can't put it into words people consider you an idiot.
That's what makes languages so
counterproductive. Take Fredrick G. Smartipants,
Princeton political science professor, and strand him in
Bolivia. Fred here took two years of Spanish in
high school, but he's a little rusty. He walks up
a policeman and says the Spanish equivalent of
"Were to being the train station is?"
Now, what do you think Officer Cisneros thinks of this
man: "My, what a brilliant and intellectualy gifted
man this is," or "Stupid gringo,"?
So civilization is stalmated
here. Getting over the natural inclination of
thinking those who don't speak your language are somehow
inferior is going to take a lot for some people.
Until then Sai-yuh-nor-a.
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