Xanadu…or Bust

 

Yes, more SOPA.

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Hats are awesome. Lay off.

 

I understand that a place like Switzerland would have a high Big Mac Index position – it’s always been expensive, still suffers from stupid customs rules and weird regulations, has high salaries and a culture that historically equates expensive with “good”, and still has fairly limited competition in a lot of areas. But why would this be the same for, for example, a pair of Levi’s in the UK, which are up to 50% cheaper in the US?

 

There’s something incredibly surreal about the luxury of being able to take for granted what for many people is the trip of a lifetime.

 

Or, Wednesday morning in the land of the living dead.

 

I’m not a huge board gamer, but after a recent discussion about the topic, I made a list of games I remember from college — more for my own reference than anything else.  Yes, this is a totally random post.

 

Re-posted from kc3.com in the hopes that someone will see and appreciate it.

 

PEXdrive was a pretty weak game by today’s standards, consisting of up to ten or so players racing various vehicles along a course in a primitive polygon landscape. There were stunt bikes, ferraris, cop cars, a rocket car, even a (totally impossible to control) UFO.

 

I know that I said “no politics”, but this is important to me.  Read some nice rants here, and here.  Warning:  contains self-important vitriol and some big words.

 

Just a friendly reminder that those who would sacrifice a lot of your liberty for the ability to make idiotic noise about how they are fighting a largely imagined enemy, are still out there, feeling up your mothers and daughters.

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