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You mean the General Accounting Office. That was the name in '97. A couple years ago, they changed it to the "Government Accountability Office." (They got tired of constantly explaining that they do more than accounting, particularly when they were trying to recruit new employees.) GAO website.

Eric Dolphy Quintet - On Green Dolphin Street

I'm watching The Day the Earth Stood Still, which is on TCM right now.

Wasting the American taxpayer's money by posting on a game development message board at work.

Dexter Gordon - I Was Doing All Right

Since when is the cancellation of a film spun off from a video game unfortunate? I've yet to see one that is worth watching for other than ironic pleasure.

Dylan - Subterraean Homesick Blues

Great news! The greater news is that my system clears the minimum requirements! (I was worried about my somewhat-creaky 2ghz processor.) :D

"They" are wrong. The really good teams stomp the crap out of their opposition. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean like out score them 31-7 through 5 of their 6 games played? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wasn't arguing that the Bears aren't a great team. I just like citing that article to contradict the conventional wisdom that close wins over good teams mean more than blowouts of creampuffs. Personally, I'd say that after the Seattle win, the Bears are a lock to get the #1 seed in the NFC, and thus the favorite to make the Super Bowl. Their division is terrible, and number of good teams the NFC East & South (which play each other this season) will prevent any of them from getting more than 10 or 11 wins. As for the AFC, NE = Rock, IND = Scissors, and DEN = paper.

"They" are wrong. The really good teams stomp the crap out of their opposition.

Is that from Abbey Road? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. Side A, right between Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Octopus' Garden. Mingus - E's Flat Ah's Flat Too Mingus had a great flair for naming tunes. (My personal favorite of his based on name alone is either "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife are some Jive-ass Slippers" or "Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too")

Beatles - Oh! Darling

Eric Dolphy - God Bless the Child. Concert broadcast in Berlin, 1961.

I bet it's easy to sneak attack those dragons. They look cool and all, but based on the way their horns wrap around their faces, they must have really crappy peripherial vision.

Watched Stalag 17 again on TCM today. It's still one of my very favorite war movies (defining the category broadly).

But how do you decide what trade constitutes "dependency" and what trade is acceptable and necessary? Is America less "self sufficient" because other nations have a comparative advantage in producing labor intensive goods, so that it's cheaper for the American consumer to buy imports? We could make them if we wanted to, but we'd have to pay twice as much.

Warner was good, but perhaps a bit too recognizable. I kept expecting to see a dialogue choice in one of the torture scenes along the lines of "There are FOUR lights!"

Yet another sad example of 2 industries America used to dominate being outsourced overseas.

Wow... Wow. Thank you for the link; I've always loved that song, too (and the rest of Greetings from Asbury Park). My parents (who were a couple of years behind him at the same high school) keep telling me how amazing Bruce was live back in the day. Stuff like that clip makes me think twice before dismissing it as nostalgia. Edit: This led me to .

I've never pre-ordered a game. I also never got the whole "special edition" thing. Usually all you get is a fancier box and an extra piece or two of desk clutter. I wouldn't pay a premium for either. As to NWN2, specifically, I'm going to wait for reports here to see if it'll run on a machine with a 2.0 ghz processor.

NJ gets a bad rap because most people's impression of it is based on driving the Turnpike between Philly and NYC. That strech of road contains lots of tolls, traffic, aggressive drivers, and ugly, foul-smelling industrial districts. Also, Atlantic City is pit of sleaze that old ladies visit to lose their social security checks. Apart from all that, it's not a bad place to live or visit.

Bud Powell - Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas

The reaction to the interview is pretty much predictable. People who liked Slick Willie praised his performance; people who like FOX still think he's a degenerate liar. What the interview really was was a very shrewd political move for the Democrats. Midterm elections are in less than 6 weeks, and in American midterm elections, you win when you fire up your base to turn out better than the other side's base. Clinton knew the interviewer was going to challenge him on terrorism issues. He deliberately went on FOX so that they would, and so that he could attack them, which gets activist base excited. It also dominates headlines for a few days, which once again brings out the debate over how (in)effectively his and the current administrations have fought terrorism. This gets all the talk shows once again about all the mistakes leading up to the 2001 attacks, and remind the public that the Bushies haven't caught Bin Laden yet.

Originally, New Jersey (the part that doesn't smell so bad, near the beach) Currently, Arlington, VA.

Bud Powell - I've Got You Under My Skin