I’ve said all along that video games don’t make you violent, and they are in fact a healthy outlet for such tendencies. Now someone has the numbers — Game Evolution’s article The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games shows that the “Playstation Generation” is the least violent generation on record in America.
You can’t argue with numbers like that, unless, of course, you’re a US politician who only cares about pandering to their misinformed constituents. I guess it’d take actual balls to inform your people that violent video games aren’t bad for their kids.
The final Serenity trailer is available on Apple Trailers.
Here’s a direct link to the large version for those that prefer to download and then watch at double-size (like me).
I caught up on a lot of work yesterday so I took Loki outside for his business and decided to join him by lying on our lounger and reading Harry Potter. I didn’t think I’d be out long, but the book pulled me in and an hour later I went inside. My chest was a bit toasty (I’d taken off my shirt to get some sun — my monitor tan just wasn’t as sexy as I’d hoped) but no real red.
Then at 4, Paul B. & I went to Cheam Golf’s “Men’s Night” and golfed a round. Again, in the direct sun. By the end of it I could feel that “you are burned” feeling on my chest. When I got home to check it it was all over my front and pretty bad. But thanks to that 1/8th Inuit blood I normally just go brown the next day, which I boastfully announced to Mel when she looked worried at me.
It’s the next day, and I’m still red. Ouch. Thank nature’s myriad evolutionary possibilities for aloe vera!
I’m at day 30 now and I’m just over 22 lbs (10 kg) lighter than I was when I started. I’ve been keeping track of both my weight and body fat percentage (we have a nifty scale that shows both after you input your sex, height and age):
The body fat readings waver, I’m guessing because it simply isn’t all that accurate, but you can see the definite strong progression downwards. I had planned to do this for two months but with the predictions from Excel I’m going to do a third month. Mel is so impressed she’s going to join me and do 6 weeks herself.
The two odd fluctuations in the chart represent the days following me playing road hockey. Medifast warns that you should avoid intense exercise, but I’m not giving up hockey. It has hurt the weight loss a bit, but I’m probably healthier.
A few people at the Stream Engineering Centre BBQ on the weekend noted that most of my Loki pictures were very close up with no size reference so they were surprised at how small he is.
So here are a few pictures with other objects/people clearly in the shot so you can see that he’s a fairly small puppy.
the Wit
(56% dark, 34% spontaneous, 27% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you’re probably an intellectual, but don’t take that to mean you’re pretentious. You realize ‘dumb’ can be witty — after all isn’t that ‘the Simpsons’ philosophy? –but rudeness for its own sake, ‘gross-out’ humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it’s also the best, in my opinion.
Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 83% on dark
You scored higher than 0% on spontaneous
You scored higher than 33% on vulgar
Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid
Fahrv says it best so go read that first, but I’m going to add a few more comments to the “This GTA:SA controversy is ridiculous” fire:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a game that lets you:
- “Jack” cars from innocents on the street.
- Run over innocents on the street with little negative consequences.
- Pick up hookers and have sex (displayed as the car bouncing up and down and some voice-overs only).
- Kill people in dozens of different ways, including beating them to death with a large black dildo.
- Assassinate people with bomb placements.
- Run missions that further a black-ops government agency who sells drugs to raise funds for their ops.
- Run a gang war for terroritory, winning by killing enough rival gang members in each one.
For this, the game got a M (Mature 17 years+ rating).
Now it’s been found out that, if you install a file from the Internet (going through several difficult technical hoops if you’re not using the PC version) you can play a “sex minigame”.
Sex.
Murder, theft, illegal government black ops, sex with hookers — that’s all fine.
But have actual consenting adult sex in a not-available-in-the-bought-version game!?!?!? IT’S TIME FOR POLITICIANS TO FREAK OUT AND POINT FINGERS!
It’d be laughable if these morons didn’t actually have power to do something for their ridiculous reasons.
I’m Medifast dieting.
I’m not sure why I haven’t mentioned this yet. Perhaps because I was worried it wouldn’t work, or that it’d be too hard or not right for me. But it’s working. It’s difficult, but it’s working. I’ve now been eating nothing but Medifast shakes (and soups) and one meal of “lean meat + 2 cups of green veggies” a day and I’m down from my starting weight of 248lbs to 231lbs. I’m now lighter than I have been in almost ten years.
Medifast is a very strict super-low-calorie diet. The shakes you eat contain just enough of everything you need to get you through the day. Your body recognizes it isn’t getting a lot of caloric intake so it starts eating its fat stores. This is a condition known as ketosis.
My original plan was to do this for two months but with plotting my weight loss with Excel and using its predictions I’ll probably be doing a third. After I’m done I’ll go back to eating right and exercising and a month after that I’m planning on doing another Body For Life 12 week program to rebuild whatever muscle mass I might have lost (which shouldn’t be much, according to what I’ve read).
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