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Trump fires Bush!

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(Via Hesiod)

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With all this flap over the candidates’ military service, why isn’t anyone asking the relevant question: is John Kerry sane enough to be President? I mean, he joined the military in 1968, after Tet. He requested to be sent to Vietnam.

However, in case you’re wondering if this is a serious question, I’ve donated money to the Kerry campaign.

Although, apparently I’m an unwilling donor to Bush/Cheney ’04 too.

Would someone on the Democratic side please stand up and scream about this already?

The Corn Rules

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To: All Mothers of 2 year olds
Re: The Corn Rules

Rule #1: never buy corn.

Rule #2: if you violate #1, do not let your son hold the package.

Rule #3: if you violate #2, the minute he starts ripping open the package, take it away from him.

Rule #4: if you violate #3, the minute he opens the package, take the corncobs away from him.

Rule #5: if you violate #4, you will have a GIGANTIC CORNSILK MESS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM. So don’t buy corn.

Thank you.

The Management

Warcrack

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My iBook stopped working on Friday evening. Instead of restarting, it would just play three tones and just sit there. This has happened before, and all I had to do was the Power Manager reset combination (on my iBook, shift-control-option-power button, wait 5 seconds, then the power button again) and it would restart. This time however, all I heard was those three tones.

This worked out okay, because Darin was in Los Angeles last weekend, so I just used his computer. Hee.

I finally got the iBook to the Apple store at Valley Fair yesterday, and the guys at the Genius Bar said it wasn’t the Power Manager, no: I had a logic board failure.

Wait…didn’t I just have a logic board failure with this thing? Darin took it to a guy he knew, got it fixed up…and now it’s happening again. Urg. I have had relatively few problems with any of my Powerbooks, and this one has had two serious breakdowns.

Of course, Apple just announced new Powerbooks yesterday. Nice new fast Powerbooks, just perfect for playing World of Warcraft.

Or, as we call it around this house: Warcrack.

Warcraft is a game you can play by yourself at home, or you can link up with friends and play on battle.net. World of Warcraft is the spin-off, an online MMORPG in which you are a rogue, a warrior, a mage, a druid, et cetera, and you run around fight stuff and do quests and explore strange new areas.

Darin has been an alpha and beta tester for them, and his assessment is that this game is a license to print money. He’s let me play one of his characters a little and you know what? He is so right it’s not even funny. This game is fun. This game is seriously addictive. This game will be the only way to get a hold of friends on- or offline.

Since Darin was away this weekend, I played a little. Or maybe for seventeen hours, I don’t really remember right now. (No. I don’t really play that long. I exaggerate for the purposes of emphasis.)

Darin says, “Well, you’ll need a new Powerbook to play this game anyhow.” So, gosh, isn’t it convenient that my iBook has died? Let’s try not to think about the fact that I haven’t backed up recently. And we don’t really have the disposable income for a new Powerbook right now. And that I don’t need any damn excuses to subscribe to Warcrack when it’s finally released. I’m supposed to, you know, take care of my kids and stuff, instead of killing kobolds in Elwynn Forest.