Whew! That was close! I interviewed at this place (didn’t get an offer) about a year ago. As my significant other said, “everything happens for a reason, eh?”.
CyberNET Group building raided in Grand Rapids
(Update, Grand Rapids, November 17, 2004, 5:27 p.m.) Federal officers from about every agency you can name entered The CyberNET Group building on South Division Avenue, south of Fulton Street, in Grand Rapids Wednesday morning.
[via WOODTV – News]
Substitute the phrase “you miniscule twit” for every comma in your email and let the hilarity begin. Is it bad if I do this already?
Check out the rest of the substitutions and let the co-worker bashing continue!
Link [via Boing Boing]
This past weekend, I “finished” playing the single-player of Halo 2, arguably one the most anticipated games of the season. I’m glad I cashed in $20 worth of gift certificates, though, since the “ending” of the game was the storyline equivalent of dry humping in the back seat.
Ok, aside from the good game play (which I still prefer on PC), the game was solid. I noticed a couple bugs (like your AI teammates forgetting to come along with you), but overall a decent game worthy of loading up a few maps to play again.
What hooked me, though, was the storyline. Right from the start, the game gets you with a great story (which knowing the 1st game will enhance greatly). And then, just when they build it to a huge crescendo, it’s over. OVER! No conclusion, no resolution, total cliffhanger. Let the credits roll (cursing at the TV, like I was) and there’s another cliffhanger afterwards.
Damn it! Who the hell is writing the script for this thing at Bungie? Did they take a hint from Microsoft and forget to implement the most important part of the software, the one everyone wanted?
So, they got me. Shame on me for thinking they would, you know, finish the game. For those of us who won’t be using Xbox Live, we’re screwed out of the best part of the game, the one they obviously devoted more time to; multiplayer.
Oh, and I’m guessing that to find out what the end of the storyline is, I’ll have to not only buy the next game, but the next Xbox system as well. What? You thought they would find another game to push sales of Xbox Next? HA!
I can’t tell if this is weird or just poor presentation, but the FCC has a website encouraging consumers to get digital television. We already have an HDTV and love it, but does the government need to encourage this? In a few more years, you’ll need to have one to get cable or broadcast television. Seems to me that’s more than enough motivation for most Americans.
If you link to the site, beware the annoyingly stupid sounds effects and crap-ass navigation.
See, when a real newspaper (or station) like CNN or the New York Times or The Washington Post do a story, they fact check. Facts are these really difficult things to get for many bloggers because they have an agenda. Always. Like me. This whole post has an agenda behind it. I’m sick of hearing that “this election wasn’t fair” or “Bush stole the election… again!” You know why? Because I read more than the circle-jerk of blogs that always agree with me or on which I comment.
Take for instance this story from the Post (reprinted on the Seattle Times website) about the allegations of vote theft, hacked votes and phantom voters.
One by one, it pops the balloon of conspiracy surrounding the vote. It also raises an interesting point; if any of these theories were true, why isn’t their candidate saying anything? You would think that John Kerry, of all people, would see the benefit of pointing out that over 1000% of the people registered in one Ohio country voted for Bush.
But he’s not. Why? Because someone looked at why the numbers were that off.
The Ohio vote-fraud theory appears to stem from the curious ways of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. During even-numbered years, the county’s canvassing board posts vote totals that include the results from congressional districts outside the county that spill over Cuyahoga’s borders. The quirk made it look as if the county had 90,000 more votes than voters.
That’s all it took? Christ, with a truth threshold that low, maybe it’s time to start looking for Han Solo’s name in a vote register somewhere.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know, vote discrepancies are common in elections, especially national elections. Why? Because voters are stupid. They mangle ballots, they mark things twice. Not to mention that at a macro level, counting that many things accurately is pretty damn hard. An operation at that level will have a tolerance. Elections are no different. Statistically, the “anomalies” in this election are within the “anomalies” in other elections.
In other words, move on, nothing to see here.
This book sounds like a great reference for movies, movies that don’t suck. Glad to see that Ronin made the list; I love that movie.
Theo Van Gogh (who was related to the artist of the same name) was brutally murdered on the streets of Amsterdam by an Islamic fascist for daring to make an eleven-minute film about the oppression of women in Muslim society….
Go. See it now. Now. Right here. It’s eleven minutes. Eleven minutes that illustrate what a life is worth to some people.
[via Michael J. Totten]