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The N-Word?
Posted Apr 8, 2004
I was just watching the Rice testimony thing on TV. What did Senator Kerrey mean when he said something like, "We don't have to bring up the N-Word"?
I mean, I initially thought that he'd just said something really offensive to Ms. Rice, but she ignored it completely. Is there some other N-Word that I'm unaware of that was made acceptable by the context of what he was saying?
I mean, I'm sure there has to be. No one just says that like that. Not only would it be bigotted, it'd be political suicide! He must've meant something else.
But I have to admit, I simply can't figure out what on Earth it was that he was trying to say.
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Take that, Gruntilda!
Posted Apr 6, 2004
Finally. After a lot of trying and searching, I can say that I've collected every item in the first Banjo-Kazooie game for the N64.
All 100 puzzle pieces, all 900 musical notes, and all the extra honeycomb pieces. Turns out that all it takes is 864 notes to open the final (unecessary) note door, and 98 puzzle pieces to solve the final jigsaw puzzle (which doesn't do anything special....EXCEPT DOUBLING YOUR LIFE BAR!). All that really remains now is to beat the final boss, Gruntilda.
Stupid final boss....she can ride a broomstick, throw fireballs, throw me-seeking electric missiles, activate that shield of hers, and all I can do is peck her a few times and hope that I can shoot enough eggs the rest of the time. I've beaten her before, but never with all of the other stuff finished.
Truth be told, the second Banjo-Kazooie game was easier until you fight Gruntilda again. Instead of being a traditional hyper-powerful witch like in the first game, she attacks as a hyper-powerful skeleton witch (she died at the end of the first game before coming back to near-life in the second) inside what appears to be a nuclear powered drilling tank with lasers and a poison gas cloud surrounding it. Needless to say, for as easy as most of the second game was, the final boss battle was tougher.
And considering that I've got twice the health that I did the first time that I beat Gruntilda and I *still* can't pull it off yet I think that I can safely say that Grunty's among the harder boss battles out there (and before anyone says anything, yes I *have* heard of/played some of the harder bosses in the Final Fantasy games, I'm aware that many of those can be a bit arder than this
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Well, this video game talk has definitely eaten up some time. Maybe the diner's serving lunch now.
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I continue to be the cramming king!
Posted Apr 5, 2004
Procrastination is not just a habit. If you work at it, it's an active part of your life. Some claim to have elevated their procrastinatorial tendencies to the stature of artwork! Art's always come easy for me.
For instance, let's say that there's a hypothetical 6 to 8 page paper due at 8 AM the next day, and a hamper of laundry that needs some urgent attention. The wise procrastinator will put the laundry into the washing machine while playing video games and typing on h2g2 so that he or she can move the laundry into the dryer by nine-thirty at night. The paper can wait until 10 o'clock.
Not doing them is not an option for a true procrastinator. They will both be done. But only at the expense of sleeping time. For that is the currency of the true crammer.
I hope you were taking notes. Quiz on Tuesday.
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Random Radio Thoughts
Posted Mar 31, 2004
Those new radio channels got started today.
Finally, some *LIBERAL* media! Now, *THAT'S* what this country lacks.
Seriously, though, anything that gets people to listen to radio is a good thing. I'd love to hear more good old fashioned radio serials, and while I can't see this as being a large step towards that it certainly can't hurt.
Similarly, Frank Conniff is going to be a voice on one of these shows. Frank Conniff, who played TV's Frank in MST3K (and, because of this, is truly TV's Frank in real life as well), hasn't had much luck with long-lasting gigs for a while. He was a writer for the hilarious (but doomed) TV show "Invader Zim", for instance. He was also a writer and performer for a show called "O2Be" on either Lifetime or Oxygen (I don't know if it was funny or not, but Frank no longer works there). So far, this is just the second MST3K staff member that I know of who will blatantly state his political views to the world (it's assumed that most of the MST3K staff were liberal, though Mike Nelson's conservative). So this is a big day for MSTies like me. Gonna hear that voice again.
Seems that the Reverend Cisco Coto is just 58 days away from his marriage (he's the third part of the "Jay & Eileen" show on WLS Chicago, one of the few talk radio shows that I would actually consider labelling as "well balenced." Jay pretty much dislikes every political candidate, and is refusing to vote for a President unless he can find someone that he thinks can do the job. Not that I agree, butcha gotta admire the passion). It seems that his wedding registry was found and given direct airing, much to his embarrasment. I don't think that I'll purchase anything for him, but I'd be willing to bet that someone's going to find the website that they've posted it at and buy those "tongs" that Jay and Eileen teased 'im about.
Wish I could get Dr. Demento in my area. Well, lemme rephrase that....I wish that I could find Dr. Demento's show on some station in my area. For all I know, he's hiding on some obscure music station that I've never heard of that broadcasts from just a few miles away. But man, I've not heard any new novelty music in ages. Maybe I'll become a DJ next year and just play novelty music.
I think that radio stations should at least have to tell you who writes the music that they play. There's a great radio show that just plays three hours of straight techno every night. Sometimes they'll play a song that's just fantastic. But because it's techno, it's hard to say that it's recognizable. So you can't really go into a music store and say, "do you have that music that was playing last night on that one station?" But then the radio station refuses to tell you who wrote the music or what the music's title is. I'm sure that this is a legal issue, but it vexes me so.
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They shouldn't put comfy chairs in study rooms.
Posted Mar 16, 2004
As much as I prefer them to hard plastic chairs, comfy chairs are not ideal for studying something that you don't really want to read. For instance, I was just trying to get through 49 pages of a copy of Alcestis, which would've been like 15 to 20 pages in a normal book. Shouldn't have taken me too long to read.
But as I chose to sit in a comfy chair, I continued to drowse with my eyes almost focussing on the same paragraph. I checked my watch at the beginning of one page, read it, and then checked it again to discover the passage of forty-five minutes.
Next time, I'm bringing my own hard, plastic chair. Something that'll send an electric shock to my left foot once every five minutes. And I'll make sure that two legs of it will be different lengths from the other two.
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