If it's Tuesday, it must be random

Yeah, got some sleep yesterday. About five hours worth, enough to get me through the night.

Saw a screening of The Last Samurai last night with jet_li_wannabe, Tracy, and Jerry. It was surprisingly fun. Not Oscar material (but then again, neither were Dances with Wolves or Gladiator), but a good movie. And after the first twenty minutes or so, Tom Cruise stops playing Tom Cruise, and the characters become fun to follow.

I've started watching Geneshaft on TechTV's Anime Unleashed. I'm enjoying what I've seen of it so far, even if it's a bit formula. Decent dubbing, and if I have to watch dubbed anime, I'd rather watch the Tech TV stuff than the stuff that gets aired on most of the other networks.

I'm currently reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined, paid for by work (yay!), but a good read for anyone who's out there on the web at all. Not a lot of new information, but Weinberger does a nice job of organizing some pre-existing concepts.

Links:

Kinky Friedman is running for Governor of Texas!. Gotta love him.

There's a good (although occasionally veering into silly, as when it asks whether the writers whose books are stocked think of themselves as scabs) article on the massively underreported Borders strike over here (scroll down to the Nov 23 link).

As always, please remember to join my army. You can do so once a day.

Also, feel free to join the armies of my officers (which also helps me). Grimcat, Lissell, SFF_Corgi, Gladstone, and Ariela could all use recruits, and there's no limit to how many armies you can join in a day.

I'm sure I'll have more randomness when I return from my meeting.

random games notes

Computer game: the 1.10 patch has nerfed single-player D2. My level 20 druid got his ass handed to him by Duriel, as did my level 20 Amazon. And after patching, my level 26 Barb is taking about three times as long to kill any of the creatures in Act IV. Grr.

Sports: One thing I forgot to mention about yesterday: My Jets kicked Steve McNope and his Titans outta the Meadowlands! Not as great an MNF game as the Dolphins classic a few years ago, but still a damned fine game (and a great second half by both QBs).

Board games: Since Amazon doesn't carry most of them, my wish list is missing many of the games I'd like to own. But if anyone wants to buy me a massive gift certificate to Funagain Games, I'd be really happy.

Fuck Dell

Dear Michael Dell:

Having read your company's internal policy on spyware, let me just say: Fuck you. Fuck you up the ass with a rusty pole wrapped in stinging nettles.

Love,

Adam (who, along with the rest of his division, had to content with hundreds of spyware and virus-infected machines this fall)