Here's one of the more disappointing things I've heard lately about the state of our political awareness:

A new poll from Pew and National Journal contains a really striking finding: Only one third of Democrats think this Congress has achieved more than other recent Congresses. Meanwhile, 60 percent of Dems think it has accomplished the same or less ( Read more... )

So I was watching Need to Know because that's the best thing I can think to do on a Friday night in Seattle. Anyway, they ran this program about nuclear waste and how we don't know what to do with it, giving one of the interviewees to bring up that whole "We've been to the moon, but we don't know how to do this other thing?" line ( Read more... )

I swear, it rained about twice in the first two months I spent in Seattle.  I think nature's making up for lost time.


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 While I do think the Sims Medieval thing has potential, I think what I'm really hoping is it means there's a chance they'll do a sci-fi themed one sometime.  Like, Sims Mars Colony or something. (They could have expansions for the asteroids, or the Jovian moons, or a space station, bring back the aliens from Sims 2 so Interspecies Diplomat can be ( Read more... )

This would possibly be the most awesome news ever IF MY PS3 WASN'T BROKEN.

(It's also 2,000 miles away, but I don't think I'd be feeling any better if it was in the room with me and broken.)

It's been interesting not having a console for the last two months; I don't think I realized just how far the Mac gaming market had slipped.  On the other hand, ( Read more... )

I get in this mood when I've finished watching (or reading, or playing) something really awesome, when I want to write something comparably awesome but generally have no idea what. Tonight it was a documentary of Franklin Roosevelt, one of those PBS specials I never watch when they're actually on TV but which I've loaded into my Netflix queue. ( Read more... )

So after a weekend spent playing Final Fantasy XIII, I'm still not exactly sure what I think about it.

( No spoilers. )

There's this story I'm working on. I seriously think it's one of the best I've come up with in years - not that I've got an especially crowted field there - and I'm sure that when it comes together, it has serious awesome potential ( Read more... )

So I've read some good things about Star Trek Online - good enough to make me kind of want to try it. Except I have a philosophical objection to games that make you keep paying for them after you buy them. And a financial objection. And I own a Mac ( Read more... )

Well, this is one of the more disturbing things I've read in a while.
( Tea party! )