LadyCrimson

Not really funny, but that Kia Soul hamster commercial is just oh-so-cute. Edit: link corrected to video that has the commercial w/it's (more) original music. Guess there's tons of "versions" now...maybe even different official ones.

Trying to figure out which would be better for me: MLB Extra Innings on cabletv (which is not in HD in my area) or the MLB.tv streaming internet option. The TV package is more than twice as much as the internet, but I'd have more confidence about reliable broadcasts/quality and don't have to fret about bandwidth usage. But since HD isn't a factor, the internet price is right even with potential streaming issues. Plus the internet means I wouldn't hog the big TV constantly while watching. Decisions, decisions. It's funny...last time I was into baseball was in the early 80's...I watched baseball hardly at all and didn't care about it for years and years. Then I watched the playoffs/WS last year (and was astounded/confuddled by some gameplay/style changes...) and I'm madly obsessed enjoying watching all the games again.

I loved CI because of D'onofri. I saw his character as a more emotionally eccentric, modern day Sherlock. Outrageous and improbable? Sure...but I love stuff like that. Have the first couple years on DVD. When he stopped being on the show all the time and that other guy took over some episodes, my interest waned. I catch it now and then if it's one of "his" episodes but other than that....

As creatures of the deep, they can be fascinating. As human consumption edibles, not so much.

Red Sox vs. Rays season opener series! Red Sox lost the series! So, ok, baseball is a sport where you can often do other things while watching and miss nothing, but I still love it. When a game does have those great plays/innings, they're often really really awesome.

That cartoon looked really familiar so of course I had to Google. It's a real cartoon, from a book called "I'm Glad I'm a Boy, I'm Glad I'm a Girl," drawn/written by humorist Whitney Darrow. He did cartoons for the New Yorker, among other things. It was supposed to be satire, but not everyone saw it/realized it as such. Edit: It's interesting how most articles written about his death focus on collections of his NYorker cartoons and don't mention this book. I suspect it wasn't published for long, it's supposedly really rare. Some background story from a blog: http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/04/02/b...d-things-fixed/ Buy it for $270 on Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Im-glad-boy-girl/dp/0671665286

Well, my father has died. Wasn't close to him, so my mourning is muted/low-key and perhaps not typical - I mourn for my mother more than anything else. But he was a highly respectable human being...he lived more from his bed/wheelchair than many do with two good legs and arms, and in the end, one could romantically consider that after 35 years my dad "beat" his disease and that the natural peace of old age took him, instead. A fitting eulogy, perhaps.

When in doubt, make stupid photoshops.

Avoid Googling, it made a huge media article splash and writers aren't being very careful even w/their headlines. *shrug* I may be going to a funeral soon myself, before long. Spring doesn't seem too cheery this year... Missed that one ... that's messed up. Can't say much more than that.

Trying a Mount & Blade stand-alone still-in-process mod called "Custom Settlements." It seems like a mod designed to turn the game a bit more into a strategy/sim, where you claim a small tent camp and "build" it into a major town/faction, whilst other AI npcs/neutral Heroes (that don't sit around waiting for you to come hire them, they can roam around/claim settlements too) and peasant tents are doing the same thing all around you. Watch your tent-city grow into the finished castle-town (with you eventually being King/Queen) and eventually taking over/leading other towns while battling other bandit factions and/or making friends etc. Neat in concept, but it still needs a lot of work ... getting started is confusing and very very slow ... still, quite an amazing mod in terms of restructuring the entire game, rather than just giving new names to factions, tweaking combat values, and adding new weapons/troop trees etc. The modder is having people create new 'settlements' designs to add in future versions.

Apparently, she thinks otherwise. Go say hi, see what happens. And right now I'm still reeling about tonights episode of "House." Wow. I don't want to spoil it in case anyone DVR'd it and hasn't watched it yet, but that caught me totally by surprise. I'm also rediscovering how much bad emotional stress makes me seriously crave chocolate. Like the "lie in bed and wallow with CostCo sized boxes" cravings. So far I've managed to not give in to them, but arrrgh. The last couple days ... just argh.

My sister in law got her real estate license a couple years ago. Timing is everything, baby. On the bright side, when things swing back up, she'll have experience and some seniority and will probably do well.

Same here. I mean, even to see it on the big screen in a theater you pay around $10 (depends on where you live, I know). $20 I'm willing to pay, since unlike a movie theater I can see it over and over...but meh... I watched another PPV freebie, Silent Hill. Didn't expect much, but I wanted to see Sean Bean. The film has absolutely great cinematic atmosphere, which actually kept me watching...and the acting was ok...but as a whole, it's not very good. Maybe if the ending hadn't been so laughably over the top it might've fared better. Still, for a film based on a video game, it wasn't the worst of its kind.

There's a couple "hidden" chests in two of the main cities that contain parts of a set. Have no clue what their origins are/were for.

I loved D2, but that comment still made me

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

So is the CADIE link on Google their April Fools? I can't be bothered looking it all up, but the website and videos certainly don't look ... professional.

No mods except for some graphical enhancement ones yet. I wanted to play the vanilla Native till I was bored to tears before gameplay mods. Maybe a couple more weeks. I have looked at a lot of the mods, tho. Some look interesting and I'd like the added graphic armors/different maps and such - the vanilla Native armors are kind of goofy, like the pink armors, argh. And ... I see you hired Alayen. He seemed a good soul, but he took me aside one day and had some choice words about my main man Nizar so he got the boot. Did you find the "Strange sword?" I've been using it sometimes because it looks cool. heh

That would make an excellent conspiracy theory. The next Oliver Stone movie!

I played it back in the day. It's a very solid game, I'd definitely say it is worth the pickup. They've changed a ton of stuff since I played it, for the better from what I hear, so I can't give you too much insight on it. I played it when it was first released...it was ok. For me the best part was being able to play solo w/those idiotic hirelings (they were a hoot...) in an anti-social separated instance. But the MP aspect was ok, just not as fun as, say, WoW, imo. GW didn't have a real "big MMO" feeling, because of the instance system. I've thought about trying out the new stuff but .... nah. I don't think it'll have changed enough to make it worth going back.

If that's Washington DC, that's one of the areas that's as average-expensive or more so than around here. New York is another one, especially if you use dollars per square foot. 2008/2009 Forbes "Most Expensive Zipcodes" list (based on median home values) has 250 California zip codes in their top 500, which includes a lot not far from us. Our house has dropped in value since we bought it a year ago (we expected it) but it's nothing like many other areas hit so hard...unless the world collapses (never know) I'd guess in a couple years, three at most, our personal house value will be back where it was, if not higher. I don't know if it'll ever reach back to it's 'boom-time' peak, tho...which was ridiculously over-priced for a 1000sf home (I think it was close to 750K, and we wouldn't have bought it then). *shrug* Edit: lol, yeah, even in expensive US areas, it's still a lot better than in say, Japan. I've seen real estate shows about people buying there...tiny little concrete boxes with a sink and toaster-oven counter ovens for a kitchen, and bathrooms are like tiny closets. Ouch.

War is a bloody business. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The only problem with Swadian Knights is they tend to cluster in a giant knot of horsemen and if you're not careful they "trap" you in the middle. I should try weaker units...Knights are becoming boring. I win everything.

I wonder who all the "cool kids" are? But yeah, that's pretty much what entertainment-as-multi-million-business does.

Aha, I think I finally got it! U2's The Edge's "Numb." K, now I can sleep at night.

Agreed. They make very basic, simple stories that are effective for wrapping around action-oriented gameplay progression, and it works, but imo they certainly haven't been genius story-tellers. That's their key, imo. If you like the kind of gameplay they provide, they provide it consistently. And they don't seem to rush their games as much, which is one reason why I think they have a decent record re: bugs. I'd definitely like to see a completely new series by Blizz (is that what you guys mean by "IP?"). It's time for a different world setting.