Game night roundup

Posted: January 7, 2009 by datechguy in gaming, personal, war
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Played a game called Descent Journey’s in the Dark last night. We didn’t finish as we started late (my fault) but it was better than I thought it would be. I would feel pretty good about recommending it to other gamers.

Then again for a price of $90 it oughta be good.

The subject of the Gaza operation came up. All agreed that Hamas are a bunch of bastards. My hesitation on the ground offensive wasn’t shared by anyone but 60% of the table criticized Israel for settlement activity on the west bank for giving Hamas an excuse. Barbara Lerner would take exception to that.

Speaking of gamers one of the guys saw The Gamers 2 recently and kept going on and on about it. It would have to be really funny to be better than the first one.

Today’s morning Joe thoughts (semi liveblog)

Posted: January 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Joe is really hitting the Sanjay Gupta appointment as a gag. I don’t see the problem with it. A lot of it is just communication and he certainly qualifies as a communicator and as a doctor.

Have you noticed that it is apparently no longer racist to say Barack Hussein Obama? I personally don’t think it ever was.

I’m not a huge fan of Al Franken for the senate and I do have a soft spot for him due to his works with the USO, but I don’t see the point of hitting him for comedy clips that he did. He is a comedian what do you expect?

Update: Apparently on the Today Show this isn’t true.

7:38 a.m. The NBC middle east reporter seemed tongue tied when Joe questioned the anti-Israel line.

7:42 a.m Joe just asked Dan Rather why the press doesn’t care or get involved when the rockets are firing but only when Israel hits back. Rather agreed saying that for some reason it doesn’t rate a story and said he doesn’t understand why. Barnicle correctly pointed out that this is used as a distraction by dictators.

Is it just me or is Mika kind of quiet today?

8:07 a.m. When Martin Indyk was asked why Hamas fired rockets at Israel, the subject of Hamas calling for the destruction of Israel never came up in his reasoning. Hamas has never needed a reason to kill Jews.

Oh boy More Ice

Posted: January 7, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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You know after schools that were closed from the 11th-the 23rd last month the last thing we needed was more ice.

However we will be getting ice all day today. Lets see if the replacement power lines hold up.

The only bright side is that presumably all the trees that were not going to make it have already come down with the last storm.

Until didn’t cover itself with glory last month, lets see what happens.

At this rate the kids will be in school till July.

Tactics 101

Posted: January 6, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Via the Muqata.

Understand the war with one image

Palestinians vs Israelis in one image

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