Okay. Wrong question.
Holidays are a good excuse to donate to charities and causes, which help us affluent white folk feel like we’re zomgactivists while sipping overpriced lattes and complaining about politics / poor service / lousy sex / etc. The internet makes this easy (both the donating and the complaining) and provides a plethora of wells in which to vomit disposable income. I think of it as part of the new years hangover recovery process.
Absent other ideas, it’s hard to feel bad about supporting wikipedia / wikimedia foundation, IMO.
This is about as preachy / disgustingly self-righteous as I get for the year (not counting spaces v. tabs debates … I wonder if there’s some way I can donate toward making everyone use tabs for indentation), so feel free to condemn / ignore.
This is basically what I’ve done on my vacation:
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Pretty much everyone at this point, iwht the possible exception of George Lucas, admits that the Star Wars prequels were crap. This guy, Mike from Milwaukee, illustrates exactly why. And when I say exactly, I mean 7 10-minute videos each illustrating a point.
Devastating: he asks people to describe the characters from the original series, without describing looks, just characterization, to people who have never seen star wars. They do it. He asks them to describe characters from the new series…. they just laugh. They can’t do it.
Okay, so NOW we have our real iPhone/iPod touch game done and up on the app. store. Sample gameplay shown below the cut. We also have a web site. If you decide to check it out, please leave a review.
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Add to the short list of things worth doing in Cleveland: The Velvet Tango Room. Just make sure you come early or get reservations; it’s gotten a bunch of Top 10 Bars In The Country reviews so it’s a bit popular. Right off the W 25th stop on the red line.
You should know that Gurren-Lagann has a Manga. This is hardly surprising. It also has a High School AU Manga. Which is hilarious.
It also has this.
Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion.