Archive for November 2009

Civilization IV considered harmful to productivity

I’ve been playing way too much Civilization IV Beyond the Sword lately rather than coding. The really awful thing is that I don’t even care about any particular game. If I don’t like something that happens I just quit the game and start a new one.
My favorite part of the game is the map discovery [...]

Dick Armey is a jackass

See this Michael Sokolove article in the NYTimes magazine:
Later, in North Carolina, we sat down to dinner, and he said: “You ever see that Danny DeVito movie, I think it was Danny DeVito, where he says big shots never order off the menu? They just say what they want.” We were at an On the [...]