With Winter getting along, my wife is insisting that I start taking the books I’ve recently read out of our bedroom and put them away downstairs. I won’t bore you with the books that weren’t good, below are the ones I highly recommend: The Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know Abou
Ego isn’t the same as pride. Pride is the enemy. It is the destroyer. Pride is what makes people go against their own best interests.
By day I’m the happy CEO of Stardock. At night, I’m either the sugar daddy or scurge of Neowin.net depending on who you talk to. I’ve been an administrator on the site for some years and its amazingly talented founder and President, Steven Parker (Neobond) has led the Neowin development team to create the latest incarnation of the site code-named Ignition. I must say, I’m incredibly impressed with the work they’ve done. If you’re not familiar
Today marked week 4 of my pound a week diet. I started at 180 and this week I weighed in at 175.8 pounds. I’m definitely not an over-achiever. I find it easier to lower my calories than I do exercising. When I get home from work, I’m tired. I don’t want to work out. And I’m too lazy to get up early enough to go running. I do manage to get some working out in during the week but no where near what I had planned to do. Probably the best thing I’ve done
Now that I can stream movies in HD, I just don’t have it in me to go out and go to Blockbuster anymore. I can’t find Gran Turino on Zune (xbox360) or comcast so I’ll just go without it. I’m just that damn lazy now.
campaign finance “reform” healthcare “reform”
Did you watch the most recent “This Week” on ABC? You get a real idea of the bankruptcy of the political left through the dishonesty and pettiness of its advocates. http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9585338
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So much going on this year. 2010 is THE year. 2009…ugh. For our family, 2009 was awful. My wife’s closest friend since childhood died of cancer. It is something that we are still coming to terms with. Few people have close friends from the time they’re small children all the way through their adult lives consistently. And professionally 2009 was rough. Demigod’s launch was a very difficult time. When it came out, the network librarie
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The WinCustomize forums going to be getting some serious upgrades in the coming weeks. For one thing, they'll return to the original design of a more flattened experience with sub-forums being "tags". It make it much much easier for people to find things than it is currently. Another area of improvement is the search. We plan to do a lot there. And lastly, we want to have skin comments be tied into the forums. Stay tuned!
One of my observations on the net is that the better known I become, the more likely someone will flame me and try to explain how much more they know than I do in one of my professional areas of expertise. Whether this be the game industry, business, or PC software development, I increasingly will find some guy on a forum who will smugly try to tell me how much smarter than they are than I am. Now, maybe they are smarter than I am. But strangely, what I suspect is more likely
Ah, vacation is over. So much to do. The next public beta is scheduled for Thursday, February 4th. That build should have t
Regarding White Flight: Saying White Flight is what did Detroit in is akin to saying that a person died because their heart stopped. It might be a generation thing but my generation and younger don't tend to have the fixation on skin pigment that the older generations seem to. What happened in Detroit doesn't seem very mysterious or complicated. The city culture came to reward unproductive people by punishing productive people. Productive people left. Unproductiv
Let's keep the personal attacks down here please. If you disagree with Mumble, attack the message, not the messenger.
2009 sucked. There. I said it. Deaths. Stress. It was just a bad year. And I gained weight. My ideal weight is 165lbs. I’m now 180lbs. My goal is to get to 170lbs in 10 weeks. 180 179 178 177 176 175 174 173 172 170 Each Monday I’ll weigh myself to see how I’m doing and update this post to display my shame (or progress). <
If you pay people not to work, you will attract people who don't want to work. The kind of person who thinks it's okay to live off the labor of others is soon going to feel entitled to more and more when that behavior is constantly reinforced. Detroit's liberal policies encouraged the least productive people to move there. The color of their skin is irrelevant and reeks of racism imo. Protected by unions, the parasite class slowly displaced the productive class who moved e
[quote]All I know is what I experienced personally. As far as the policies etcetera that may have contributed to the decline, I don't know and perhaps the documentary may in fact be accurate. The only thing that I can state from personal experience is that i f people want to claim that racism had nothing to do with it then they weren't there in that place and time and simply don't know . I was there in that place and time and I do know. &n
[quote]In those days the white people in Detroit were predominately republican, the city was democrat because the blacks were overwhelmingly democrat. While there certainly were white democrats in the city in the early to late 60's, far more whites were republican than democrat. However it was a race thing not a party thing. Whites were simply afraid to have blacks living in the same area and so they fled and it didn't matter the party to which they belonged.[/quote] And why were
[quote]While you're welcome to your opinion, I was there, were you? [/quote] I'm here NOW. Are you? Seriously though, is that your argument? You were there? Since I live here, I have the opportunity to talk to a lot of people who "were there". One of the recurring themes regarding "white flight" has to do with the 1967 race riot . The question is what led to the
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Dr Guy: Exactly. White flight was a symptom, not the cause.
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Easy enough - next time a prominent liberal has a health problem, we'll go over to CNN and see what is said in the comments section. I bet it'll be hard to find a bunch of death wishers.
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