12.15.06

Wii - accidents

Posted in Funny... at 8:52 am by bryce

I’m very amused…

- quoted from an AFP article by by Glenn Chapman -

“One gamer told of arriving home from a booze-infused Christmas party to notice his girlfriend struggling against an enemy in the Wii fantasy fighter quest game “Zelda.”
“In my inebriated state, it was instinctual to become her knight in shining armour,” the gamer’s online posting said.
“Unfortunately, my courage was far greater then my skill … whilst I was performing a slashing movement I hit her with full force right in her eye.”
A photograph showed the woman with an eye swollen shut and a smile on her face.”

From the same article -

“A woman wrote of being served a painful dose of gamer humiliation after inadvertently smashing her television screen with a Wii controller.
She confided that she had read of such mishaps online in gamer blogs and thought “Harhar, that guy must’ve had the coordination of a stroke patient _ what an idiot.”
“Words cannot describe how stupendously retarded I feel at the moment,” the woman wrote.
“It’s like when you read one of those ridiculous Penthouse letters and think that it could never happen to you, and then surprisingly find yourself in an orgy with some dirty white trash, the dirty white trash’s mother, a midget, and a guy named Pablo.”

It’s with quotes like this that I feel joy and optimism about the future of the human race.

12.01.06

Cold Weather

Posted in Political, Random brain poop at 12:42 pm by bryce

I believe that the earth is warming. I’ve seen plenty of good evidence - including from my very intelligent brother who happens to be a Doctoral Candidate working on forest ecology at the U of M. I’ve never heard a good response to the argument. The Supreme court is hearing a case at this very moment about the EPA regulating the emission of CO2.

The Clean Air Act says that they have to. The EPA has to regulate emissions from sources that:

“cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare”

Later the Act specifies that “welfare” includes climate and environmental effects. The Bush administration has pushed scientists out of the discussion for long enough - this makes me sad. I don’t understand why it takes a lawsuit by the states to make an agency respond to accepted scientific understandings and do something about this. Weird.