If you have Steam, you may want to check it out. It’s kind of… esoteric, but not in an occult way. I think that I will be buying the game, despite the fact that it looks like it’s about as far away from Mass Effect or Skyrim as a game can get.
Month: October 2013
MSNBC’s Phil Griffin: Fox News is spying on me! With RAYS! In My HEAD!
This is a highly entertaining media tantrum:
Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there’s something fishy about Tuesday’s ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation.
“Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic. On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours,” Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser.
“Tuesday — you guys should be doing some investigations; I have never seen it in all my years of cable — same overnight, same everything. And they doubled their ratings in a day? It is impossible.” Griffin continued, “I have never seen it. They did election-night numbers in the demo Tuesday.”
It’s entertaining because Griffin there is accusing Nielsen of deliberately altering the ratings in the second tier of news networks (cable news does not have the same reach as network news). Which would be one heck of a story, if true …if. Of course, if it were true then it would have leaked by now. People tend to do that sort of thing, when money is involved. And money is involved: Nielsen ratings figure in advertising fees. Continue reading MSNBC’s Phil Griffin: Fox News is spying on me! With RAYS! In My HEAD!
YOU CAN HAVE MY TRICERATOPS WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
If Ray Harryhausen was wrong then I don’t want to be right:
Brace yourselves. The famous triceratops dinosaur never actually existed as a separate dinosaur species, paleontologists say.
Known for its three horns and the bony, frilled ridge around its head, the triceratops was most likely just a younger version of the rarer torosaurus, say researchers John Scannella and Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies in Montana.
Admittedly, I wouldn’t be able to tell a triceratops from a torosaurus unless they had their names painted on the side, but it’s the principle of the thing. See this picture? Continue reading YOU CAN HAVE MY TRICERATOPS WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
“Space Oddity.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyuKUtgyZ8
David’s kind of an… odd duck, isn’t he? Cool dude, but a bit odd.
Well, that was interesting.
Car battery died – or the starter, or the fan belt, or look I was an English major, OK, so it is a case of the car it does not go vroom when I turn the key, see? – and it turned out we had to tow it. If you can ever get the opportunity to see a car get towed, do so: it’s very interesting. It’d probably take me about an hour to get the dang thing up on the back*; it took this guy two, three minutes.
So that’s what I was doing tonight. Getting my car to the shop. Nothing earthshaking and/or calamitous. Bit of a pain, because the commuting car is a bit cramped for two and two car seats, but that’s so totally a First World Problem. Continue reading Well, that was interesting.
#DOOM in the New Jersey Governor’s race.
I don’t like calling DOOM before I’m absolutely, positively sure, but: the New Jersey governor’s race is over.
Yeah, I know that you knew that already, but Barbara Buono’s response should start making Democratic state legislators up for re-election nervous. That’s the response of somebody who thinks (accurately) that she was hung out to dry by her own party establishment and who has decided that she doesn’t care whether people expect her to take one for the team anyway. Which means that it’s the response of somebody who doesn’t care if her own party wins the downticket races on Election Night.
Fine by me. The more seats we gain in the state legislature, the more future candidates we can cultivate. Buono wants to help us with that out of spite, well, that’s not my problem.
The Moe Lane Zen And The Art Of Partisan Hackery Flow Chart.
Given the somewhat contentious discussions that we have been having in the conservative movement over the last few weeks, I felt that this might help. Besides, hey: flow charts. I’ve been meaning to get a program that would let me do flow charts*.
Anyway, I hope this assists.
Moe Lane
*It’s who I am, and I have given myself permission to be all right with that.
Reports: Harry Reid being cut out of #shutdown negotiations.
I said it a week ago:
There will be no peace in the Senate as long as Harry Reid is Senate Majority Leader.
— Moe Lane (@moelane) October 2, 2013
Continue reading Reports: Harry Reid being cut out of #shutdown negotiations.
“@SeanTrende is smart and you should read him” Watch: Gerrymandering edition.
My major takeaway from this Sean Trende piece [Link fixed] (“Gerrymandering Isn’t to Blame for D.C. Impasse”) is this: the Democrats lost one hell of a chance to fix their party’s own major structural problem in 2008. They had just finished a two-cycle program to seize and keep control of Congress, and they did it by electing a lot of people in swing-district territory. If they had taken those people, integrated them into their leadership properly, and not enacted the core Congressional Democrat holdouts-from-1993 wishlist, they’d probably still control Congress and the GOP would be talking up regionalism like nobody’s business.
Of course, that would have meant no stimulus, no Obamacare, no push for gun control, no Obamacare, no attempt at cap-and-trade, no Obamacare, the Keystone Pipeline, and of course no Obamacare – so there’s no way that was going to happen. Still, that was the way to go.
…And I didn’t address the actual article. Well, it’s good; and the Online Left’s going to hate it, because it doesn’t take their religious beliefs seriously. So it goes.
Moe Lane
Quick diversion: is a Texas (Democratic) state legislator campaigning under a fake name?
Interesting story here:
HOUSTON — Ferdinand Frank Fischer, III would be a great name for a Mexican monarchist trying to reclaim the crown of Emperor Maximilian, but it’s a lousy name for an ambitious [Democratic] American politician from a Latino district of San Antonio.
That’s why Fischer ditched it years ago, trying on a couple of monikers before building a name for himself as Trey Martinez Fischer, politician on the rise.
The trick worked, as it has for so many starlets, but now he is easily startled by questions of authenticity and vanity. When he found out that Gov. Rick Perry had used the term “charlatans and peacocks” to describe a group of politicians – Fischer among them – who were threatening to impeach Regent Wallace Hall, he bristled.