A-kon is this weekend in Dallas. I’ve been to my share of anime conventions and other gaming conventions, and maybe it’s my getting older, but they really don’t sit well with me anymore. Conventions used to be about a gathering of fellow like minded individuals for a weekend to share their common likes, be it [...]
Entries from May 2008
Call me bitter, but conventions stink on ice
May 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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A fool and his money
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: consumerism
Remind me to never drive through Arizona
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Less than a week after I post an entry about the jackbooted thugs in Arizona regarding arresting people for being drunk when they aren’t, we have another case of an Arizona cop abusing his authority and falsely imprisoning someone for DUI when said person was not just below the legal limit, but had a Blood Alcohol content of .00.
Tags: bureaucracy · food and drink
Cracked Magazine. Apply directly to the forehead.
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
No longer are our magazine racks graced with Sylvester P. Smythe and the half-assed wannabe parodies of Cracked magazine. Instead, now the interwebs and website aggregators like Digg and FARK are cluttered with the New & Improved Cracked.
Tags: Uncategorized · culture
The myth of noble journalism
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
I was listening to one of the podcasts that I normally listen to, and the hosts were waxing nostalgic at how the media used to be objective and how they didn’t try to inject themselves into a story. They were wondering if this “new news” was different than “old news” because there isn’t that selfless, cold, and composed anchor talking about someone doing something terrible, like taking forty cakes.
Tags: media
Welcome to the land of guilty until proven innocent
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments
There are a number of crimes nowadays where you are automatically assumed to be guilty de facto if not actually assumed guilty du jure. Of these are sexual harrassment (if the victim is female and the accused is male), rape (same situation), anything related to terrorism, hate crimes, and drunk driving.
Actually, with regards to things like terrorism and drunk diving, you can be proven to not having broken the law and still be whisked away to jail or a detention center.
Tags: bureaucracy
Richard Cheese, what happened to you?
May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: culture
That little bit of raw food veganism that isn’t snake oil? It’s pseudoscience
May 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: food and drink
Raw food veganism is little more than snake oil
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Jack, the brainless thompson gunner
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Well, it’s official. Jack Thompson has gone off the deep end. A judge has reviewed a complaint by the Florida Bar Association leveled against anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson and recommended that he be found guilty on 27 of their 31 complaints.
Tags: culture · technology