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Tank Girl :)
Hey! Thirsting for some
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Go steal a tank, girl!
Carve
Your Own Pumpkin
"Now this is a game I can totally get behind! It's educational,
it's fun, and it's environmentally friendly! How can you go wrong
with that? It's a wonderful educational tool for young children
who are beginning to learn about ecology and nature. The game,
rated for ages "8-108" per the package, is certainly
not limited to children. The ever-changing rules and limitless
possibilities cater to both the chaosian and the strategist alike,
keeping players of all ages entertained for hours. One game can
last only a matter of minutes, or up to an hour. It all depends
on the luck of the draw. With each game being different, it's
difficult to get bored." -- review
of EcoFluxx at Green Room Magazine
   
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Giving Up On Canada |
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 One
of the hardest things in the world for us humans to do is to
change, and one of the biggest reasons it's so difficult is the
pain involved in telling everyone you know that your opinions
have suddenly become different. This is all the more true when
you've built a piece of your life around the thing you've stopped
believing in. Even if you know, for example, that it would be
best to get divorced, or to bring the troops home, or to abolish
marijuana prohibition,
such things are often difficult to achieve just because it's
so hard for people to say "I was wrong."
To get to the point, I'm announcing this week that we've changed
our relocation plans yet again. We're still going to move, someday,
to somewhere... but we've given up on the idea of moving to Canada,
and we're going back to the drawing board to rethink our choices
for a new hometown.
For the past two years we've been trying to get our brains
around the idea of actually following through on this crazy decision
about moving to Canada... and we just haven't been able to do
it. Much as we're keen on moving away from the Washington DC
area, we really don't want to move THAT far away... we're more
interested in a city 1-2 hours from our old home. And intriguing
though it sounds to move to Canada, there really aren't very
many good reasons for us to do it, and a lot of reasons not to
try.
To understand all of our motivations for wanting to move Somewhere,
I am this week posting a
comprehensive 8-part report on our long-term plan for relocation,
including the details of some of my wildest dreams and how our
relocation is designed to help facilitate them.
To those who feel jerked around by our ever-changing plans
(in particular Alison),
I hereby apologize and humbly seek forgiveness. But it's just
the way I am... I'm an INTJ, and the J for Judging means I go
through life making decisions, about what I think and what I
want, and taking those decisions to heart, even if I end up re-evaluating
and changing my plans and beliefs later on. I'm also a dreamer,
and as such I sometimes chase dreams for awhile before waking
up and smelling the reality. (Remember when I said I'd decided
to go back to school, to become a lawyer?) But I still believe
the first step towards doing anything is deciding that you want
to do it... whether you actually can is something to be figured
out later on. It all begins with a decision, and as Dave Oleynik
(my boss for awhile at Magnet) often used to say, "Decisions
are Good." (He liked this saying so much, he got us to make
buttons for the team that said Decisions are Good.)
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| Anyway, Decisions are Good, and we've made a new decision:
we're not going to move to Canada after all. But we're still
going to move somewhere, someday. |
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for reading, and have a great week! |
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The first gay couple I know to actually get married (in Canada)
have broken up. It's sad, but of course, a huge percentage of
straight marriages end in divorce, so it's not really surprising.
And I guess that's what equal rights are all about: having the
same opportunities to succeed means also having the same risks
of failure. |
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I agree with everything George Will says about how stupid
it is for our government to be criminalizing internet gambling,
and I certainly agree with his comparisons to the failures of
alcohol prohibition. The only thing that bugs me about his
article is his attempt to call this Prohibition II. That's
totally incorrect -- this would be Prohibition 3 at least, maybe
even Prohibition 4. The War on Drugs is obviously Prohibition
II, and it's been doing all the same damage for a much longer
time even than the original policy disaster we call Prohibition.
I'm disappointed with George Will's failure to point this out. |
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"When something is not working, we, as a society, must
have the courage to try something different. Thankfully, we had
the courage to abandon the experiment of Alcohol Prohibition
when it became obvious that it was doing more harm than good.
Even the most conservative among us do not advocate that we return
to that disastrous policy, which made violent criminal gangs
rich and wreaked havoc on our streets. It has now become obvious
that it is time to abandon our experiment with marijuana prohibition
in favor of a system of strict regulation with sensible safeguards
like those proposed in Question 7." -- Rev.
Jerry Pruess, a retired Lutheran minister (from the conservative
Missouri Synod denomination), one of 33 Nevada religious leaders
who
recently endorsed their state's upcoming initiative to legalize
marijuana |
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