CIV Knows All

Also noted in that Wired article.. I swear I will move to Canada if this shit keeps happening. (Keep in mind this is an opinion article.)

On the other hand, maybe Bush and company have been playing some CIV. Check out these civic stats:

Police State
Upkeep: High (yup)
Requires: Fascism (check)
+25% military unit production; -50% war weariness (BINGO)

Kill Germans, Not Cops

Quick read about violence in video games.

Ice Crystals on Your Windshield: Beautiful But Deadly

My latest, craziest night to date out here was a night of soup, guitar hero, and the new harry potter movie at a theatre that was not near me. I also found out that I can't shoot pool worth shit unless I have at least one beer.

On the drive home at 2am there my windshield was covered in this amazing lattice of ice crystals. My eyes kept flickering from the background, the road (which was boring), to the foreground, the ice crystals (which were enchanting). Everytime I drove under a street light the cystals were set ablaze with light, mezmerizing me further and blocking those pesky road obstacles from my vision.

The movie was okay. The kids are all grown up now and are not nearly as cute. The orange haired kid (Weasle, or whatever his name is) was pouty and annoying. The effects were neat but nothing new. This (Goblet of Fire) was the last book in the series which I touched, and I got bored after reading about 50 pages. The film felt kind of the same. As new characters or plot twists were dragged onto the screen, I kept imagining the author, J.K. Rowling, tapping away at her laptop, smiling at her own fabulous wit. This sort of broke the spell, so to speak. It was still a well made movie, though, and definitely more aptly crafted for the screen.


Fourteen and feisty

Honest Game Titles

Quite funny, if you've played any of them.

Apartment Hunting

Is not fun. Although I have to say that as angry as I get when i'm lost, it was impossible to stay mad while getting lost in so many beautiful neighborhoods.

I realize that this is all out of order, but here are a few shots of Jenine and I getting lost, er, I mean, exploring Boston.



Sweet laptop, eh?



Patches attempts to flee the corporate housing

Arnold Arboretum

Here is a gallery of shots taken at the deliciously nearby arboretum.

I should add that denizens of SmelLA should forget everything they know about parks (a plot of crab grass with a bench is not a park) - this place is HUGE!

Therapy

Mailing address

Danny Boy
33 Farquhar Street #3
Roslindale, MA 02131


I expect a deluge of gifts to follow.

Guitar Hero

If you have a PS2 this is pretty sick. Everyone at work is giddy about it, but apparantly Wes doesn't like big colorful plastic buttons on his instrument.

CIV

Whoever you are, you ought to buy this game.

Internet!

Sweet, sweet internet access. Now I can finally work from home! Oh, wait...

Anyway here are the apartment pictures that I promised people. I'll take some more shots once the place is up to par.







Cute and tired.