If you are an old school geek like me, and I mean real old school, then you used to play Rogue and Hack and Moria and Angband and the like.

And now someone finally ported it to the iPhone.

It was only a matter of time. They did a good job of the port. I might have done a few things differently, but overall, nice port.

And because it is a port of the original rogue, it is open source and Free.

SNOW!

There is something really wrong with this news report:

Alaska Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens, the GOP incumbent, is leading Anchorage mayor Mark Begich.





(my bolds)

ummmm, how did I not hear about this until today?

The Obama Campaign thought this up fast:

McCain is going to cure Autism? huh? wtf? Is this the same way he "knows how to find bin Laden" but won't tell us unless we elect him? Or the same way he "knows how to end the war" but won't tell us if we don't elect him.

The McCain campaign slogan really needs to read: Elect me or I am taking my ball and going home!


btw....who the hell is Joe the Plumber? Is Joe the Plumber also Joe Six Pack? Because it sounded to me like Joe the Plumber makes more then $250k a year, and therefore will not be getting any tax breaks from Obama. So I am guessing he is not Joe Six Pack then, maybe more like Joe Courvoisier. Although I guess he could still be married to Hockey Mom.

I watch the Daily Show most nights and then go to bed after. I think this bit from the other night does a good job of summing up the whole Palin thing:

This is the single best use of celebrities for a message that I can ever remember seeing:



And remember, for most states you only have 2 days left to register to vote.
Pass this PSA on.

Bill was cool on the Daily Show the other night. Here is the entire episode if you missed it. Some great stuff if you have an extra 20 minutes.

[insert emo post here]

hello

Tonight we went to the birthday gathering of blergeatkitty and I just realized that it is so long sine I have referred to Jess as Blerg that it is actually strange to use that term now.

Was nice to see so many people there that I know...and really weird to see eyeteeth because I had no idea that she knew that crowd and it is just another "it's a small LJ world after all" moment. And hopefully we will see her later in this week because substitute is going to be in town and staying with her.

It was a good party though....nice gathering of people who are always lovely to see.

We just got home and opened a bottle of organic wine, which I am not liking as much as I would like to and I am starting to think that organic wine just is not as good.

Also....life is kind of really cool right now. Here is to hoping it stays that way.

Peace out -

In watching political coverage this past year, I am always amused with the little exchanges like this:

"If Obama offers you the role of Secretary of defense, would you accept?"
"Well I right now we are just focused on the campaign and getting him elected."
"But if he offers, would you accept?"
"I would proud to serve Obama and my country in any way"
"So you would accept"
"Well right now we are just focused on beating John McCain."

I mean you know they not only would say yes, they want to be asked. And why is that bad to say so? And to start it off, I just want to put it out there publicly, that if Obama wins and offers me the position of White House Chief of Staff, I will gladly accept.

What position would you accept? (feel free to make up your own...heh)

Erin McKeown's "Daisy and Prudence" was the first shuffled song on my iPod this morning on my walk to the subway and now it is stuck in my head; especially the line this is a moment we'll mark time by which seems awfully apropros to me for personal reasons at the moment. And there is a meta-factor now because I am fairly certain that this song will now always bring me back to this moment too, but maybe not...as I don't think that I am normally aware of the the songs that bring me back to some place and time at the moment they are marked.

Do you ever realize when a song is sort of branding itself on you? Or is it after, at some point in the future when you hear it out of the blue for the first time after the moment, that you realize you have now had a song tattooed to the surface of your memories? And what songs are most powerful for you like this?

If you were going to make a giant theme/amusement park...what theme would you make your park?

Ok, you are walking down a quiet empty street by yourself, early evening, and an alien spaceship lands in front of you. A couple of alien types get out of the ship, walk toward you non-threateningly and you sort of just get a feeling these are a couple of nice alien chaps. When they reach you one says, "We come in peace, please take us to your leader."

Where do you take them?

In my salad for lunch every day I get fat free turkey, carrots, cucumber, mushrooms and snow peas with a fat free lemon herb dressing. What do you put in your salad?

Cake or pie, and why?