Archive for January, 2010

It’s Official D 1945-2010 R 2010- (update U not R)

Posted: January 9, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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My mother has been under the weather so I gave her a call about a ride to mass and to offer to take her to city hall to change that voter registration she was talking about. She is apparently ok because he is back behind the wheel and this week she has already visited City hall and ended her 65 years of association with the democratic party and re-registered as a RepublicanUnenrolled as she promised.

Her first presidential vote was for Harry S. Truman. If the democratic party was still the party of Harry I might be voting that way too.

Her first vote asfor a Republican will be for Scott Brown!

Update: It turns out she actually registered as “Unenrolled” (that is what independents are called in Massachusetts)

Amazon Review: Ra Board Game

Posted: January 9, 2010 by datechguy in amazon reviews, gaming, hobbies
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My review of master game designer Reiner Knizia’s board game Ra is available at Amazon.com here.

My weekly game group was short this week leaving us with only 4, we learned this one on the fly and was able to get in two games in under an hour. When a fifth showed up a few hours late he was able to grasp the game and join in one more game before we called it an early night finishing before 11:30.

The measure of a well balanced strategy game system is:

On that contains different paths to victory

Regularly rewards the best players

Contains enough luck so the outcome is not guaranteed

Ra certainly does the trick but with a max of 5 players we likely won’t be getting back to it for a while.

Almost forgot that election ground report…

Posted: January 8, 2010 by datechguy in elections, local stuff
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…that I promised at the begining of the day.

In the diner nobody knew much about the election but when I talked about it every person but one expressed an opinion and that opinion was all Scott Brown. Once I mentioned that the difference was the passage of Obamacare or no that seemed to cinch it.

At the Butcher Shop it was empty but nobody was really talking about the election. Only Kathy expressed an opinion and it was in support of Coakley. It seemed as if nobody was really interested in the subject.

I don’t know if this is good or bad news, but it is what it is.

Four Horsemen update

Posted: January 8, 2010 by datechguy in fun
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In case you were interested in our little poll concerning the new 4 horsemen of the ablogalypse as of today here are the results so far:

Glenn Reynolds leads with 23%

Michelle Malkin is 2nd with 12%

Victor David Hansen is 3rd with 9%

and Powerline rounds out the top 4 with 8%

On the outside looking in are

Iowahawk 7%
Bill Whittle 7%
Captain Ed 7%
Robert Stacy 5%

You can still vote here if you are interested.

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