"More jumping, more running, less getting lost inside office buildings."

@Go Go Gadget: Thugmunk: What does this for me is the insistent exclamation markage on sentences otherwise totally legit. I'm cracking up. Choking-on-spaghetti-cracking up. You made my evening.

The cynical side of me wants to say something like "and just you watch, other universities will join in and MIT will get their panties in a knot because their precious For The Elite Only creation will have gone viral, not that they do that often or anything."

@Owen Good: But you _can_ swap the vid cards. If you've got a comp new enough to run Leopard I mean. Boot Camp lets you share everything. Dualbooting has come a long way since those horrid Windows Card days. And it's worth it to have the monstrosity of the Windows OS locked up in its little bubble—don't put it…

Oh bah. I understand why they did it but if SL had existed a few years ago and I would ever have been able to get over the levelless systemless system of it, this would've stung. So they'll pop SL over the head but not MUDs? Because I'm pretty sure there are a couple MUDs out there. Surely. Robert Jordan's Wheel…

If he wants to be the savior of the toy market, that's his business and more power to him. But has he seen the toys that sell? Bratz dolls? Dora the Tarted-Up Ten-Year-Old? I don't personally know a girl over four and under the age of twelve who doesn't already know the mannerisms and languages of a snarky…

@FarmboyinJapan: I will have to check it out. My last lone dining experience resulted in an unshakable creep who trailed me from Shibuya all the way through the park to Harajuku, babbling about how since my tights and his scarf were the same color, we were meant to be. But my assumption is that the posh LiT place…

@FarmboyinJapan: LiT was one of the things that (perversely, depending on how you look at it) got me re-interested in Japan from a burnout on it several years ago. To that end I've been mentioning it and things that call it up in my missives to family members. But I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you've…

@Nawara_Ven: As a fellow student marooned here with his American wife snapped bitterly to me yesterday, "Sleeping with the culture helps." His wife reportedly only has friends because the mothers at her kid's school want to expose their children to English-speakers. No one is interested in that family "going…

I agree, and yet, I don't, because I know that without Skype I'd be very, very lonely.

Is the fact that two of the cops were female at all relevant?

If you bank with Mitsubishi UFJ I am surprised you got out of there with your sanity intact. I foisted 11 pieces of identification as well as two "witnesses" (to the fact of my existence as, indeed, myself?) on those punks before they gave me my bank account. Grr.

"Either BioWare is cutting the scale short so they can stay focused, or they've confused Martin with Robert E. Howard." Thank you.

@Tendrin: Oh ho! I did not know Jade Empire allowed said liaisons. At the time, my computer was woefully subpar, and the friend I knew who did have it would have buried his head in the sand if his strapping lad so much as suggested a dalliance with the male melon-seller. I shall have to hit him up for a loan of…

If you sift through old reflections on radio culture 30-some years ago, much of the present concern we see flitting about the print media industry was then suffusing the radio industry. And now, it's true, you've generally got a couple top 40s, one or two angry metal channels, the fundamentalist rhetoric channel…

"but we don't know if homosexual relationships are possible for both genders"

@SpiralJacobs: Well, I'm not saying it's original. But usually you're some chump out to avenge his wife/mother/sister. This time you get to play said female in "need" of avenging. Whether or not it's been done before, I haven't played that character before, so I'm looking forward to it. I don't look at it and say…

At about the point, a few DA:O posts ago, where I realized I could play a knief-wielding victim of assault, out for vengeance with the potential to lead a mini-revolution against odds that would surely swamp her, I decided I needed to pick up this game whenever it comes out "in the second half of 2009." I was…

@MightyCow: I agree. That EVERY creature has it ALL the time, that does make a difference. Pre-BC WoW was the only reason I forced myself to stay awake in the only statistics class I ever took. And I remember whacking creature after creature and seeing somebody else doing it and saying "you looking for ___?" and…

And lo, we are granted a brief glimpse into the world before the underwire cup.