Results tagged “Sarah Palin”

This week, the Geek News Roundup is being posted earlier, for I have something I need to post.  Skip ahead to the last four paragraphs if you're impatient.  But first, the news.

There is a fourth state of matter beyond that which is known to most men.  It is a state of matter as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.  It... okay, it just falls apart the further I get.  But anyway, plasma is being used to disinfect human skin and kill germs.  Personally, I feel cleaner if I use actual soap and water, but if this kind of thing takes off into personal use, then maybe it'll help stem the spread of stuff like the Swine Flu.  The Swine Flu is now the Swine Few.  There are a few distinct variations in the flu, and that is causing some people a great deal of worry.  Hey, if I get the piggy flu, I'll just stay in bed for a week with my video games.  And while scientists are having trouble with the flu, other scientists are making progress in fighting certain kinds of cancer.

In space this week, more evidence of life on Mars has been discovered, and it's looking more and more like a certain red planet was once full of life.  Small, microscopic life, but it still counts.  Also, if you're planning a trip to Saturn any time soon, you might be in time to see a spectacular light show.  What is called the aurora borealis to those living in Alaska can also be seen on everyone's favourite ringed planet.

Microsoft sucks this week.  It looks like they don't want anyone drinking the COFEE anymore, they've issued takedown notices to many sites hosting the software.  Silly Microsoft, people will find other ways to distribute it.  Sarah Palin sucks this week.  She claims that her family used to play Scrabble a lot.  Yeah... no.  Take it from a Scrabble fanatic: I don't know how you play Scrabble in Alaska, but in the rest of the English speaking world, you don't want to hoard the Q, you want to get rid of it and hoard the Ss.  RPGs suck this week, according to Pixel Poppers.  Apparently, as an RPG gamer, I automatically suck at hard puzzles.  Hey Angela, thanks for helping me acquire a copy of Picross for the DS.  I've been enjoying it quite a bit, especially the level 10 (hardest) puzzles.

How's this for interesting?  A book called "The CIA Manual Of Trickery And Deception" is available on Amazon.com.  But wait a minute, one of these authors has already written quite a bit about the CIA, and all of a sudden, he comes across an old spy manual and decides to sell it?  It's not like it just fell into his lap, he had to go digging for it.  But anyway, as for my own writing, Adventures in Canadian Gaming will resume in December, after the end of NaNoWriMo (I am currently at 48455 words, which means I have 1545 words left to go), provided I am still alive.

In an earlier column, I mentioned Canada's Worst Driver, and made flippant, almost self-mocking comments about my own death by motorist.  It was totally and completely a joke to me.  I even mentioned the corner I figured it would happen on.  Well, at approximately 5:13pm on November 5th, five days after I posted that entry, a motorist driving a dark truck didn't even look in my direction when he was stopped at a stop sign on the corner of Campbell and 1st in my home town of Revelstoke, Canada, exactly one block away from my predicted scene of death.  I was on foot, and I hesitated because not only did I not know what he was going to do and didn't have eye contact, but he also had stopped in the middle of the crosswalk.  I didn't have to stop for him.  It was my right of way to continue walking.  If I had, he would've plowed ahead and mowed me down.  I would most likely have died on the scene or on the way to the hospital.  I hope the extra five seconds he saved driving to the bar was worth it.

On last Monday's episode of Canada's Worst Driver (rerun Fridays, when I watch it), one of the bad driver nominees who was going through the driver rehab course got a phone call.  Crystal Farao's brother-in-law, Thomas Stagno, was killed when a bad driver failed to yield for him.  The driver, Tom Marion, was charged.  Failure to yield carries a $150 fine in Canada.  It might've been worse for the driver who almost struck me, but for Thomas Stagno, that's all his life was worth.  $150.

I had someone's life in my wallet earlier today.  Could've been mine.

Well, it turns out Sarah Palin doesn't like Katie Couric. Who knew? Undoubtedly it was all of those gotcha questions from that pesky liberal media. Even bigger news is that she's apparently been having numerous disagreements with her fellow campaign members, many of them referring to her as a "diva" or a "rogue." Infighting is not something you want to have happen to a campaign nearly a week from the election. On that note: yes, we are only eight days from the election. No more commercials or withstanding attacks from the Republican Fear Mongering Machine (TM).

One of the biggest announcements in the gaming world was the unveiling of the Star Wars MMO that had been rumored for who knows how long. They're calling it Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it will be set, storywise, 3,000 years before the questionable prequels came into play. No release date has been announced as of yet.

As every sports station has been saying for about a week (or longer) now: How about those Phillies? At this point, they only need to win one more game before they can be declared Major League champions. That's great! You know, if you're a Phillies fan and all.

Chances are that if you drive a car, you probably like the fact that gas prices have taken the biggest drop in history. Of course, I couldn't possibly imagine anyone who didn't like this, unless you're the type that makes it your itinerary throw money into the fireplace because you're just that inherently diabolical.

If you were keeping up with the DOW, it took another big drop last week in tumbling 514. It's going to be a long road to repair for the stock market.

That's it for this belated edition this week. Just hang in there, we only have eight days for this election.

Probably the biggest totally video game related material from this weekend's Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) were the Fallout 3 (pictured above) gameplay video demonstrations. You can find all of them on GameTrailers right here, or at various other outles on the internet, including the Xbox Live Marketplace. Hopefully, no more of the artwork is misinterpreted as terrorist propaganda.

There was quite a bit of news from Japanese Gaming Magazines this week, including:

- Gundam Musou 2 (Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2) was announced for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Playstation 2. The game has only been announced for Japan so far.
- A new Wii Action/RPG called Kizuna was also announced.
- Meteos Wars, an updated port of Meteos that originally released for the Nintendo DS, is making its way to Xbox Live Arcade in October. This was also confirmed to be for the US as well via an announcement on Thursday.

In political news, Presidential nominee John McCain named his possible future Vice President: Sarah Palin. Certainly an interesting choice, though don't be surprised if you see this being played numerous times over the next couple of months.

Anime adaptions of American comic books will continue, as Studio Madhouse announced its plans to adapt Iron Man and Wolverine into anime series in Spring 2010. It already looks like they have the potential to be good, though it's also been proven that more than potential is needed for a good superhero adaption. Still, they look to be better than the manga adaptions!