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I learnt today that Rush Limbaugh, in his infinite lack of wisdom, (and I quote) “hope[s] Obama fails.”
Really? Is this, sir, wise? Is this the statement of a rational, or intelligent lifeform?
I don’t care if you voted for Obama. I don’t care if you’re left wing, right wing, perpendicular wing, bat wing, [...]

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I can has snow and Obama!

Inauguration day. I am here watching Obama sworn in, and listening to the first presidential speech in almost a decade that isn’t making me want to beat the “most powerful man in the world” (gods what a fucking concieted concept!) with an English textbook and a dictionairy.
As well, it is snowing. For my friends [...]

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I was conversing about the absurdity of a lot of the more vocal and active sci-fi fans and realised something rather sad: Thanks to them sci-fi may not live much longer.
Sounds contradictory, huh? First let’s take a look at some of the things “fans” get up to. “Fans” are no longer the [...]

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I very nearly got Sal’s Revolution typed and realised, to my horror, frustration, and near depression that twenty-two typed pages in I’m going to have to take a belt sander to the dialogue to start smoothing it out.
Since I was going to need to, essentially, rewrite the last dozen pages, and already planned to make [...]

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I has a new addiction

Sid Meier’s Pirates.
Buy it.
The End
Ok — seriously — what is the name that precedes the title? Are we really surprised? Yes, because as seriously fucking Oh My GODS awesome as his games to date are, Pirates makes them seem Yeah It’s Neat by comparison.

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I can has Leopard again.
Some days ago a mysterious ailment befell one of the key binaries required for OSX 10.5 to boot. This was a bad thing — because I had no Leopard disc. My laptop had come with it installed, but only come with the discs that had been in the box [...]

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