Game Day etc

[jazzfish]

Poker with Dick Cheney: "DC: We will show you our cards after we have collected the pot. It is important that things be done in this order, otherwise the foundation of our entire poker game will be destroyed."

For laughin, the single greatest event of this guy's life. After all, if he can't handle one guy without losing his temper, how can he handle unfriendly nations?

Scare tactics in tort reform.

Fafnir on torture: "Before we get to 'Torture: Sorta Like Mowin Your Lawn' I think we should try as hard as we can to wake up."

Game Day was pretty cool. Finally got to play Saga, the last of my Origins acquisitions. It's neat, and easily worth the $7. Also played a lot of Sleuth [going to need more record sheets pretty soon] and Samurai, and Alhambra [sort of a tile-laying game crossed with a stock-market game, in which you get to do the Exact Change Dance], and Fire & Ice [two-player abstract strategy game: neat, but, well, there's go, beside which all other two-player abstract perfect-information games pale]. Also acquired a ceiling fan so that I'll no longer be bloody roasting in here.

Comments

[desfido.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about trying to generate a sheet to use for Sleuth that would have ready made on it the things necessary to neatly/easily do (well, at least the charts and stuff would be neat :) both Mark's system (which, of the systems I've seen people use, has the advantage, IMHO, of being easy to see the potential logical deductions) and my system (which is similar to yours, and one of the main advantages it has over Mark's is the potential for error recovery/rollback, double checking, etc). Although if you can just cheaply obtain additional pads from the manufacturers, or a pdf of the sheet provided, I think I'd rather not bother, since it would sort of dictate how to set up your sheet, and I think the different systems people come up with are interesting to see. Anyway, let me know if it might be useful for you if I worked on such a thing (also, what maximum or exact dimensions you'd like the sheet to have, if you care about that).

[absolutliz.livejournal.com]

5 points for use of the word "bloody"

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Both candidates using The Finger! What a world, what a world..


Incidentally, my ceiling fan does approximately crap for circulating air in my current bedroom. Admittedly, the vent is under the bed, and there's a lot of furniture interrupting airflow.

[cxi162.livejournal.com]

Really nice Tucker. Aren't you the one who always complains about others who post comments that are unsupported by facts? Gotta love the "well, if there wasn't any glare you could see him flipping me off" image. I got a hard drive full of images like that, full of things you can't see! Nice.

[jazzfish]

Hey, you've now got as many facts as I have. What I was specifically bitching about in your case was my /not/ having all the facts that you did. I felt [and feel] that it's pretty trivial to just toss a link in there to give some context, both for readers today and for yourself should you go back and reread your journal years later.

All sources for the Kerry story I've been able to find boil down to Sampley's word against Kerry's. [All seem to originate with this NewsMax story.] And the Kerry campaign has denied it, for what that's worth.

Do I believe this one? Coming from President Who Cares What You Think, sure. Do I believe the Kerry story? Given the situation and provocation, sure. Do I think that candidates ought to remain superhumanly cool under unreasonable provocation? Not really. They're human, like everyone else.

[I do think that Vice President Go Fuck Yourself was way out of line. But that's hardly news.]

[laughin.livejournal.com]

The FU line was out of line and it WAS news everywhere I saw. Just, well, they can't quote it.

Also, I have a hard time with the 17 year old boy's story about Bush flipping him off. But hey... what do I know?

[jazzfish]

My apologies; by 'hardly news' I meant that my thinking it was way out of line wasn't going to be news. The story was indeed plastered pretty much everywhere.

Non-signatory to the F-Bomb Proliferation Treaty

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

There's really no call for personal attacks against politicians, unless they provide things like a flimsy excuse for me to do what Star Trek geeks have been doing for years, fantasize about sex with Jeri Ryan (http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/06/26/jack_ryan/). Even Nixon swore like a sailor, which is appropriate since he served in the Navy during WWII, but weird as he was raised a West-Coast Quaker.

There are plenty of policy reasons to dislike Bush, like his highly-profile July 4th weakening of the Endangered Species Act (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26242-2004Jul3.html), declaring the independence of endangered species from burdensome government protection.

completely unrelated

[idoru.livejournal.com]

:D did you see ?

it's like i have a tucker thumbprint birthmark!

Re: completely unrelated

[jazzfish]

*snrk*

I am apologetically amused.

[ndkid.livejournal.com]

I take these reports, true or not, as just another sign that we need to make legitimate expressios of feelings like the middle finger and the f-word legal. If they're good enough for the people who run my country, they're good enough for me!