Monthly Archives: October 2009

EVE Online

Posted on October 22, 2009 | Comments Off on EVE Online

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Speaking of computer games, this MMORPG intriques me. It’s billed as "the world’s largest game universe" and the artwork certainly is stunning. I still prefer FPSs, but maybe…

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Adios, UH-1

Posted on October 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Adios, UH-1

This seems to be it, as far as the American military is concerned, for the UH-1 Huey, the workhorse troop- and casualty-mover of the Vietnam war. Course the feeling of the nose-down takeoff, the wind roaring through the open side doors, and the distinctive sound of the rotor blades from the ground as one passes over will live on in memory, until the last veteran passes on. Few of them ever even knew it was, officially, called the Iroquois.

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Kay Bailey’s warning

Posted on October 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Kay Bailey’s warning

I’d really prefer Gov. Rick Perry get another term than see the former cheerleader take his job, but it’s nice to see K.B. has the guts to expose weasel Waxman and Barry’s next economy-killing plan–after the trillion-dollar "health" job they still hope to pull on us.

Their $3.6 trillion gas tax will be felt not just in big states like Texas where everything is far apart, but in airline tickets and higher costs for all goods that arrive by truck, including groceries. Not to mention electric bills. Save the climate, me arse. Climate change is normal. Global warming is a hoax and the Dems’ carbon-gas tax will cripple the country to satisfy the U.N., the EU and the usual nutcases.

Meanwhile, support for the tax and belief in the problem is sharply declining.

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DOOM’s legacy

Posted on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off on DOOM’s legacy

It informed the operation of many of today’s computer games. Did it need a story? Nah. It was fine the way it was. Fourteen years later I still remember trying to jump over those chasms at the end of one episode to avoid the water below while the monsters shoot fireballs at me. And all via the keyboard. Not a single mouse click. Quake was better. Halo is better still. So is Half-Life. But only because of DOOM. And their stories are beside the point.

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Posted in Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles

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Dreadnought

Posted on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Dreadnought

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Another view of the Battleship Texas, in its landlocked parks’ berth east of Houston.

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The rains cometh

Posted on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off on The rains cometh

Steady showers this morning on a forecast wet day and night through tomorrow. Glad to get the rain, as always, but it will push the pool problems diagnosis by the maintenance guys out until Friday morning at the earliest. Although it will be middle of next week before we can get the replacement parts for the impeller, anyhow. If the impeller is the problem, as rare reader JD thinks, and it now looks to us like it is.

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Barry: Just gimme a Palestinian state, forget the rest

Posted on October 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Barry: Just gimme a Palestinian state, forget the rest

The fix is in. Barry’s national security advisor wants a Palestinian state with no preconditions: no stopping the rockets and mortars from Gaza, no expelling the jihadis and Iranian advisers, no ceasing of the anti-Jewish elementary school curricula. No wonder only four percent of Israelis trust Obamalot.

Meanwhile, the Susan G. Komen for The Cure breast cancer charity group holds a medical conference in Egypt that excludes Israeli doctors and researchers. So toss their pink ribbons in the trash and give your future donations to some group that can do research without discriminating.

UPDATE: The SGKfTC say they renegotiated their deal with the Egyptians to include the Israelis. So pluck their ribbon out of the trash. Scroll down here.

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