If you are an old gamer than this little animation will be cute to you. Click on Play video.
Isn’t that just what your mind’s eye saw you doing when you played the game?
Nothing like a little elevator action
Posted: January 6, 2009 by datechguy in gaming, techTags: nostalgia
Looking at the posts at Instapundit concerning Netbooks for under $400 all I can do is drool.
The big feature to me is still getting XP. One Glenn quote tell the story of Vista in a nutshell:
I like the mini-Note line, though the one I tested had Vista which slowed it down considerably.
That’s Vista all over.
The Baseball Hall of fame voting is coming up the only shoo-in on the list is Rickey Henderson. Of the remaining people on the list only David Cone and Mark Grace even deserve a thought and that thought would be brief.
As for the people already on the list Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Andre Dawson. Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Tim Raines, Jim Rice, Lee Smith and Alan Trammell. Other than Parker and Baines and perhaps Mattingly there isn’t anyone on the list that would be a bad choice. There are currently people in the Hall less worthy than any one of them. Personally I’d vote of Blyleven, Dawson and perhaps Rice and Murphy. Jack Morris is a tough call for me but still a no. So is Trammell
Ironically if I had to pick a starter for a single game from the list above that I had to win; it would be Morris. Likewise if I needed one hit at one critical at bat from the list, my choice would be Baines.
Simple ways to prove me wrong
Posted: January 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: double standards, Israel
My provocative statement concerning the left and Jews is not going over well with some. My follow up considering Nordlinger’s position is still being considered by me, but there are very simple steps that the left can do to prove me wrong right away:
- Condemn the rocket attacks by Hamas on Israel that led to the current war.
- Condemn groups within their own coalition that call for the destruction of Israel
- Condemn groups that call for the death of Jews
- Exclude groups from “anti-war” marches that call for either the destruction of Israel or the murder of Jews
- On left leaning blogs comment condemning those who call for either the death of Jews, the destruction of Israel or advocate violence against the Jews. I don’t call for banning such commentators unless such statements contravene the particular blog’s guidelines. Speech whenever possible should be answered with speech.
- This must be done in the same public manor and with the same volume that you condemn Israel, Bush or America.
If the left can do this then that would certainly prove me wrong. I would be delighted to see it. A great example of this on the right is at Little Green Footballs which has taken an awful lot of grief for rejecting any alliance with Vlaams Belang even to combat Jihad.
