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Dealing with headstrong princes
Inspired by something Anduin says to you after you complete Unholy Cow:"Hey, sir, we don't have to tell my father about that little ambush," said Anduin Wrynn. "If he finds out about an attempt on my life, he'd never allow me out of that keep ( Read more... ) -
Inherent Worth: A Social Experiment
While I was driving to work this morning, I was listening to a radio show where the announcer was discussing (and disparaging) the common conservative belief that prosperity is a sign of divine favor. This set me on a tangent of thinking about how much of any person's actual prosperity is a function of their station in life vs. how much is their ( Read more... ) -
Nonintuitive Economics, or Why You (Maybe) Shouldn't Take a Lower-Paying Job
We're in a recession. There are a lot of people who have been out of work for a long time - as many as two years, in some cases. Obama only just signed another unemployment extension into law, after the issue was hotly debated for several months in the Senate ( Read more... ) -
Making sense of immigration policy
The United States' immigration policy is dysfunctional. Pretty much everyone agrees on that, with the sole exception of the businessmen who profit from illegal labor. The mutual agreement ends there ( Read more... ) -
On advertising and kids)
(reposted from my Fark comment on this threadI have no kids. Everything I know about raising kids comes from what I remember about being raised. But I think my parents did a pretty good job of it, because for us, McD's and Burger King were a rare special treat and not a daily occurrence, and I don't ever remember feeling deprived because of it ( Read more... ) -
Random philosopho-religious musings
So I was listening to Air America this morning on the way to work, and Thom Hartmann had a guy on from the Council on American-Islamic Relations...
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In other news...
In addition to my ongoing World of Warcraft gaming, I've recently been playing EVE Online. (Well, I say recently - in fact, I've been playing it for almost a year now ( Read more... ) -
Random update
Time to dig this thing out of mothballs again!
Updates in my life:- The weight loss program I was on has been a resounding success. My weight is now between 155 and 160, and I still get out to exercise on a semi-regular basis (though not as often as I'd like).
- The general health improvement has had ripple effects; I'm getting more done at work ( Read more... )
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The vegetarian zombie...
says "Graaaaaaaaains ( Read more... ) -
Well, that was different.
I needed to get my half hour exercise in today to make my five days of exercise a week, but I couldn't get to the gym during the work day. So... I went jogging around the neighborhood when I got home ( Read more... )