Outlet & Arguing

This is an outlet for me, so I will use its as so from time to time. I won't mention names unless its prudent or I don't care. 

Some people say I'm argumentative, and I am... to some degree. It's not about about winning, though, it's about the ideas or data being validated or modified. Maybe, even discarded!

Derek and Evan get this to a high degree, and I have very lively (loud) discussions with them about the most random crap. They know that it's not about being right, it's about what you think is so, and what others think is so, and comparing the two.

You want to be right, but if you aren't, then you learn something. Even if you, or anyone else is right, everyone may or may not learn something about their views. Maybe no one is right at the end, it's all opinion, nothing is empirically proven. You still can refine your views as much as you feel like.

Sometimes, objectivity is completely done away with, in a instant. 

Nintendo only made one version of the US Wii Sports, and the pitching camera views aren't different from one game disk to another.

This is a small matter, truly. Someone said that our version of the game had a different view for pitching. If you think about that for a minute, you realize that this can't be true, whether you want to believe this person or not. 

If this is case, there is a different US version, some one let me know, pronto. I haven't been able to find anything on this.

Geek things that I geek out on.

Webcomics... seriously, I read a lot of webcomics. The first was 8-bit Theater. The second was Megatokyo. Both are still being written, and I still read both of them. I'm not going to do a list right now, but I will in the future.

Also read: Missfile, 3 Panel Soul, Bigger Than Cheeses, Penny Arcade

Ok, so a small list. 

Can't seem to find the last few bobble heads in Fallout 3... I don't want to look it up, not just yet.

I also consume many podcasts, I used to mainly listen to Steve Dahl, but that was taken away from us by CBS, damn them! 

Ok, not really damn them, but come on! I loved that show. 

Anyway, its mostly BBC and UYD for life. Buy a tee shirt, they are soft. 

Also, S Words, Dan Carlen's wonderful shows, Bill Mahr and Real Time.

And, but ups to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!

Did you know that there was a flu? A swine one? Well, there may be a vaccine! Yay, similar genetics!... for now. 

Cough in a tissue or you damn sleeve, ok people?

First post

I haven't done this sort of thing since high school, and have been putting it off for a while. I'm sure this is common in the blogosphere, a 24 year old wanting a place to write things down, as easily as possible. Well, here we are. 

Poor Chrysler, they filed chapter 11 bankruptcy... hope they pull out of it. After all, tax dollars have been invested, in a manner of speaking, and it would helpfull if we got some of that back. Even if it was dollar for dollar, its better then getting back nothing.

Dianne Feinstein scares me, and so does Jerry Brown. Nothing against them personally, I'm just saying this politically.

Illinois, you are a wondrous and provocative state, and I bless you. Please continue you quest to decriminalize hemp (marijuana), for the good of all the USA.

State by state, we can remove the economic power base from the Mexican based mafia that control much of the hemp that comes in to the US.

This could be called a National Security issue, citing reports of these cartels having presence in over 100 towns and cities in the US. 

I live in Phoenix, and I respect the Mexican as much as any other, and being so near the border, I worry about the feedback loop between these borders. There should be a free flow of goods and services, but not automatic weapons and smuggled drugs.

That is all for now.