...the ultrahigh-tech graphic overlays that occupy the bottom 25-30% of the screen, usually covering the exact place you want to see what's going on.

This has bee happening for years.  Not that I haven't released a buggy game, but don't you people watch your own shows?  Aaron Brown kept telling his techs to remove the shit all weekend.  They did, then the very next screen, ...bam, the overlays are back.

Maybe resize the view guys?  ...something!

...but I almost went home to masturbate when this was just passed around the office.

At that moment, I had forgotten about the doubles he supposedly has, but I knew the "Saddam" I was seeing last night on that television broadcast was wrong somehow.  My first thought was "Wow!  Saddam has gotten old quick!  ...must be from the war stress!".

  Saddam last night                                                      The real Saddam

Everyone always says that Saddam reminds them of Hitler.

I always saw him more like a Mussolini.

...if you ask me about going to war with Iraq, ...no wait, ...I mean war with Saddam, ...I will usually give you an immediate and impulsive "Fucking A!  Kill the cocksucker and do it now!".

If I think about it for more than a reckless moment, though, I will usually think about my dad.  One guy, not very significant to many other people than my mom and me, but I guy I think about every single day since he died 3+ years ago.  No exaggeration, there has not been one single day since June 15, 1999 that I do not have my heart tugged down by a thought or memory of him.  Not a single day.

The human mind is a comparative analyzer.  I remember the first time I saw logarithmic graph paper, I felt millions of neurons firing off in my brain.  Something was intrinsically cool about it compared to regular, linear graph paper.  Similarly, one year goes by so much faster now because it is only 1/45 of what I know as life time, compared to 1/10 when I was a 10-year old.

Okay, on with it, ...last Tuesday was a sort of Mardi Gras celebration here in Dallas.  Lots of partying.  We had some distinguished guests visiting, so we took them out for dinner and then headed back to the bars just below our offices.  Turned out to be much nicer than just having a few beers.

One of the bars downstairs has elevated cages where people can dance.  Most of the time, fortunately, these people are women.  There is a Mardi Gras tradition of women to flash their breastesses here in America.  Well, the cage dancers did just that.  That and more.  I have to figure that this group of ladies were professional strippers because they had all the same "exotic" moves.  Made for a very nice night, very nice indeed!

What was strange, though, is that if we had purposefully gone to a strip club, it would have only been a mediocre night.  The women weren't all that great looking, kind of skanky, actually, and they only flashed for brief moments.

However, since it was not expected or anticipated, my brain classified it as a great night.

...what the hell happened to CNN!  I used to religiously watch Headline News every morning during my shit, shower, and shave.  I got a decent dose of the news and I felt informed.  Except for that Jeannie Moose twit segment at the end of each half-hour, I felt smart.

Now, the show is targeted towards idiots looking for "entertainment" rather than news.  For the half-hour segment, you get maybe 2-5 minutes of real news, and the rest of the time you watch two anchors and various reporters babble and giggle about complete bullshit.  Cute little remarks and sophmoric jokes, ...it's more disgusting than drinking molassas!

First, and most obvious, there is a dead pigeon in the middle of the road!  ...that's correct, ...a dead pigeon!

Second, can you see the name of the bar across the street?  It just opened in January.  It has a tiki motif.  They advertise "ritual celebrations".

http://www.planetquake.com/sujoy/Archives/dec96/Jbdr.shtml

http://www.gracelessland.com/CGI-BIN/g2000.exe/bio?bio_janitorbob.txt

http://www.ritual.com/inside_ritual/tribe.html

I was here at the office Monday night when the "storm" hit.  The highways are laced with live webcams so that you can monitor traffic and such before commuting.  I figured I'd take a peek at the road conditions right around the exit before my home.

This is the picture I got, ...pretty much explains our state of readiness for bad weather here in Dallas ;)