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Have you seen what his IQ is? Apparently the same as Einsteins.... So how trippy is that?

To go with the snarky quote rather then intelligent discourse.. "Democracy is based on the assumption that a million people are wiser than one person. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one person is wiser than a million people. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?" And the other part of the balance to use Sun Tzu: "Human nature is bad. Good is a human product... A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight ; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."

The collected soundtracks to Babylon 5... They actually make quite good restfull background music turned down low when you have to stay in bed..

Congrats on surviving so far Nepenthe. Now you just have to make it through the next 30 years.. Spant half the day in bed but the worst of the headahce seems to be settling, so crawled out again to get some fresh tea and some form of sustenance to endure on.

Enjoying the pleasures of a nice, deeply grating headache and generach ugh. After forcing myself up to deal with the start of the morning.. I'm giving serious thought to popping a few more ibruprufen or paracetamol and crashing back to bed for a few more hours.

I know, I was one of the people speculating. Still would like to know when I can get my grubby paws on it! Unless there's been another "delay" that I've missed..the talk was just delaying it till the end of April'ish.. Not really a huge shift in release..

Urf. Getting the day started and tis windy and grey and grim... Had one really vivid dream about sitting my exams some years back..but where everything that could go wrong was. It was one of those dreams where when you wake up..it it took a bit to realise it wasn't actually x years ago and none of that stuff had actually happened.

Yeah, unlike Quantum of Solace, which nobody saw. Eh, how many of the Bond Girls who get 5 minutes of screen time do you honestly remember after the film ends? Sure, the main female ones who are there for most of the film get the big shove of publicity but the "brief moment of flirtyness, a roll in the sack, and then killed by the bad guys" rarely stick to memory or public awareness. Compared to how many people (well, guys) who like the whole "naughty schoolgirl" approach of St.Trinians..

I think the whole really.. St.Trinians remake helped push her to the general consciousness.. The guilty pleasure type of thing.

So true... Well I had to cut that short.. otherwise my metaphors would have really started getting convoluted and weird..

"No matter how many people you love in your life, there'll always be one you loved the most." Relationships fail for so many reasons. Sometimes for sensible reasons, sometimes for just screwed up happenstances. Then there are relationships that don't so much end, as get twisted up, half-strangled and linger like some escapee from a mad scientists lab. You can ignore and compartmentalise a lot of emotional baggage. There are times new relationships can heal the wounds from old ones. Sometimes those wounds just loiter and skulk like a mustachio-twirling villain. So about all you can do is try to ignore them and carry on with life. But they'll still find ways to pounce on you when you're not suspecting.

It being a spam message doing the whole "We wish our customers a happy new year" type of thing makes it really.. amusing.

There's a couple of other elements too.. A lot of the pre-order bonus stuff came out for companies that had a serious "fanbase" who would pre-order games because they liked previous games by the comany.. So in one sense there was a "give the fans something for loyalty" approach. On the other hand.. human psychology is we like to feel we've gotten something for "free". Look at how often people will pick something up in a supermarket or grocery store thats on a "2 for 1" deal even when they wouldn't have picked up that 1 item on its own. So it encourages people who might be interested in a game to pre-order because of the sense of getting something for free rather then having to spend time completing quests or such in-game. The amount of pre-orders for a game can seriously sway a companies budget and how the game is considered by the big bosses. So throw in office politics, and you can see why they want to tempt more people to pre-order..

And one of the things that people seem to be forgetting is that it's not exactly an offical Canadian Government/People thing here.. The Canadian Police set up a task force to investigate this and potentially prosecute the people who had it done.

.. Was just pumping out a quick batch of push-ups.. and the cat came buzzing round the corner and flung itself at my head like a flying squirrel. When you're halfway pushing yourself up and the furred thing wraps itself around your head.. its a touch distracting.

And this is different from IW how? Well IW were very cramped hubs. From what's been said they're going more in the wide hubs like the original.. And the horde of previews are out as the first embargo's lapse.. and there's a bunch more for the 24th or so of Feb when the next release of news will be allowed out.. Gamespot Extended Hands On Deus Ex Impressions Eurogamer Preview CVG Preview Heh, and one thing from that latest JJB interview ended with the "its out on xbox360 , ps3 and pc. Oh yeah, I've been playing it a lot on pc lately and its frikkin awesome!" So here's to hoping the pc version works smoothly... Hm, and I hadn't noticed just how much Adam Jensen resembles JJB... inspired art, or just a subtle form of advertising....

I know a guy who has a watertight transparent bag he puts his kindle in and reads in the shower... Thats madness. Reading in the bath is one thing, but in the shower??

Combine it. Have the library at home to read in comfort and show off.. and the kindle for travel , when you can't actually pack the library into the car...

Couldn't seem to focus on some revision and attempted learning. So I thought I'd stretch my mind in a totally different way..and went on a research binge over designs, engineering and science of skyhooks, space fountains, space elevators and related construction and orbital mechanics.. Kind of random..but it'll be interesting to see how much actually sticks in my mind in a few days.

The thing is, he wasn't just slitting their throats in a humane manner. He also used a shotgun, and managed to wound not kill some of them. And he was doing it in front of all the other dogs who were tethered there. So they "knew" what was coming.

One point for the Kindle is that it's set up to allow you to make notations of your own to text you're reading.. And it keeps all notes saved to your account. So even if you delete a book from your kindle, the account will keep the record of any notations so if you re-download the book back onto your kindle you can access the notes again. Although that's not something I've played around with, so I couldn't say how effective it actually is...

There are a few publishers that have established free online libraries , most notably Baen. They put up a selection of books by various authors that they publish, add new ones, rotate old ones.. Let you download the books in various electronic formats or read online via html setup for chapters... http://www.baen.com/library But then Baen are a big believer in giving a taste to get people interested in authors and series. They also have a tendency to include a cd library with a whole bunch of other books in some of their hardbacks. On the other way, I know a couple of people who "share" a kindle account. They've both bought a kindle, but link them to the same account. They can buy books seperately, get them put in the that account so they each have access to it... Amazon seems okay with families doing that, I'm not sure how it would shift or whether they could really track it for non-family members.

Yeesh, the fiancee of a friend of mine finally got a job after spending the last few months out of work. He turned up for his first day of work, then several hours in got told that he was being rif'ed and the contract pulled.

The kindle's screen isn't backlit and is actually very easy to read from without the potential eyestrain situation... So I wouldn't make that much complaint on it. As I've mentioned, my mom has joint problems and can't hold books easily, but she can get those chunky sized books downloaded to her kindle and she can hold it with no problems and a simple press of the thumb turns the page. I've seen her struggle to hold hardbacks and and large paperbacks to read them without fumbling, so the ease of use the kindle provides certainly proves its worth there. For people who want the portability, but don't want to surf the internet, or check on facebook, but who just want to keep a whole bunch of books for access on the go.. That's what the kindle is for. Comparing it to the Ipad and such seems quite silly. It's not aimed at that market. Sure, you can use an ipad to read some electornic books but that's more a sidefeature of the ipad. The printing press begat the hardback, the hardback begat the paperback, and the paperback begat the kindle. The kindle isn't for the tech geeks and the people who have to have the flashy techtoys. It's for the booklovers who want to be able to move around with around 1,500 books in their pocket. I've got around 7,000 books in my room (not counting non-fiction) and I wouldn't get rid of them just because of the kindle, but I think the kindle makes a great thing for taking around a bunch of books when you travel. When you can just stuff it in a bag or a pocket and you know you've got your comfort reading whenever you want.

Sometimes you just want something that does one job very well. Not an overexpensive piece of equipment that does a whole bunch of things passably.