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Patrician III [Aug. 7th, 2009|08:13 pm]
Patrician III is one of the best games I've played in 2009, and it was released in 2003
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The Big Music List [Aug. 3rd, 2009|01:04 am]
Bram (my spouse) and I discuss music often, and usually I'm at a disadvantage as we try to discuss music she likes. However I like how she's helped me to identify the sounds in 80's and 90's music that I like so much, and distinguish it from shit that I don't. I figured I'd return the favor and compile a list of various sub-genres of Electronic music that I like and listen to, along with a song that I think represents the elements I like about that subgenre best with the assistance of Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.

House -
New Wave (Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part IV)
Synthpop/American New Wave (Too many to list. New Order - Blue Monday, Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams, Information society - What's on your Mind, etc.)
Synthtron/Electroclash/Nu Synthpop/whatever (Freezepop - Bike Thief)
Hip House (Stereo MCs - Get Connected/House of Pain - Jump Around)
House Techno (C&C Music Factory - Everybody Dance Now)
Anthem House (Faithless - Insomnia)
Disco House (Junior Jack - My Feeling)
French House (Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You)
Epic House (Marco Demark - Tiny Dancer [Moto Blanco Mix] or pretty much any remix of an 80's pop song)
Vocal/Diva House (Ce Ce Peniston - Finally/Black Box - Ride on time/Operatica - Melancholy Rose)
Nu Italo Disco (O-Zone - Dragosta Din Tei)
Microhouse/Minimal House (Losoul - Synchro)

Trance -
Goth (The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion)
Darkwave (Clan of Xymox - Strangers)
Industrial Rock (Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Rob Zombie)
Electronic Body Music (Front 242 - Motion)
Electro-Industrial (In Strict Confidence - Stripped)
FuturePop (VNV Nation - Dark Angel)
Buttrock Goa/Heavy Metal Goa (Dark Soho - Combustion, Analog Pussy - Trance n Roll, pretty much every video game RPG boss track with an electric guitar ever made )
Acid Trance (Union Jack - Red Herring)
Classic Trance (Age of Love - Age of Love)
Ibiza Trance - (Chicane - Offshore)
Dream Trance (Robert Miles - Children...yes, I am ashamed)
Epic Trance (Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky, Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel, Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone...yes I know it sucks)
Dutch Trance (Rank One - Airwave, Human Evolution - Project Magenta, DJ Tatana - Words, etc....jesus, I have too much of this awful shit)
Anthem Trance (Transa - Transtar/Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino)
BreakTrance (Hybrid - Finished Symphony)
Deep Trance/House Trance (Blue Amazon - And Then the Rain Falls)

Techno
Classic Techno (Cybotron - Clear)
Detroit Techno (Derrick May - Strings of Life)

I'm not big on Techno =(

Jungle -

Nothing in Jungle Electronic I really like either.

Hardcore -

Hardcore Rave (Channel X - Rave the Rhythm)

Downtempo -

Ambient (Speedy J - Fill 17)
Electronic Psychedelic (The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows)
Ethereal (Dead Can Dance - Host of the Seraphim)
New Age (Enya - Only Time)
Worldbeat/Ethnic (Enigma - Return to Innocence/Deep Forest - Deep Forest)
Ambient Techno (Orbital - Halcyon + On + On)
Ambient Breakbeat (Rob D - Clubbed to Death)


Breakbeat -
Classic Hip-Hop
Progressive Hip-Hop (Black Eyed Peas - Empire Strikes Back)
Abstract Hip-Hop (Coldcut - Timber)
Miami Bass (Tag Team - Whoomp, There it is)
East Coast Rap (Public Enemy - Fight the Power)
Breakbeat Freestyle/Electro Dance (Shannon - Let the Music Play)
Big Beat (Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Anthem Breakbeat (Kay Cee - Escape)
Progressive Breakbeat (Digital Witchcraft - Kaylee's Blanket)
Chemical Breakbeat (Uberzone - Bots)
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Shit [Aug. 2nd, 2009|04:39 am]
I think I've encountered some daunting things in life, but for some reason the Declaration of Intent to Study Law questionnaire from the Texas Board of Law Examiners fills me with dread. Well, not for some nebulous reason. A reason. A big fuckin' reason that could destroy my career before it starts.

Lets hope that certain records relating to my past as a minor were sealed.
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Perhaps we should rethink our ideas on national debt reduction [Jul. 31st, 2009|06:10 pm]


The graphic is very cheap and simplistic, so feel free to correct me if it's an incorrect assessment, but isn't it interesting that the lowest periods of national debt correspond nicely with some of the crappiest economic times for the country in the 20th century?
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I blame Bush [Jul. 31st, 2009|03:42 am]
Look at how TERRIBLE the state of American fisheries are compared to Europeans! ((MMSY means Multi-species Maximum Sustainable Yield))

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Oh My God... [Jul. 29th, 2009|11:10 pm]
My childhood crush was/is a Ronald Reagan fan. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5687/a-young-celeb-who-doesnt-go-w-the-lefty-flow/
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(no subject) [Jul. 21st, 2009|05:04 pm]
I'd just like to add that fictional stellar cartography is hard to pull off. I can see why Freespace 2 phoned theirs in
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Things to do before I die [Jul. 21st, 2009|02:24 am]
Things to do before I die:
Troll Aaron Diaz, writer and artist of Dresden Codak Done!
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I hate Newsweek [Mar. 11th, 2009|04:09 pm]





It's like they're not even trying to hide it anymore. =(
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(no subject) [Jan. 25th, 2009|11:08 am]
Pakistan insisted that counter-terrorism be equated with racism, according to the minutes of the preparations for UN conference Durban II. Which would be great because it would ensure that no western country would participate.
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The Boston Herald shares my opinion... [Jan. 23rd, 2009|11:18 am]
"President Barack Obama has an unusual ability to bring out the best in his enemies and the worst in his friends."

It's absolutely true. The biggest boat anchors around the mans' neck during his campaign were his wife, his pastor, and his vice president, NOT the Republican Party. Meanwhile, now the Democratic Congress is insisting that they don't take orders from Obamarama (the guy who just won a huge mandate while Congressional approval is in the tank), and the Republican minority is wanting to compromise with him.

This is reminiscent of the Democratic majority Clinton had when he entered office. People can begin to see now why it took a Republican majority to establish his legacy.
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And now for something mildly related but not about Jews [Jan. 22nd, 2009|07:30 pm]
Why isn't Jeane Kirkpatrick's 1984 speech at the Republican National Convention featured on the 100 Best Speeches of All Time but Ann Richards' is?

Also boo on Martin Luther King taking top billing. What the fuck is that? This is supposed to be a list assembled by collegiate scholars from Texas A&M and some place called Wisconsin, not David Letterman's Top 100. And that's what springs to your mind? It's like asking who is the most awesome composer ever and saying something like fucking Beethoven. Come on. Points should always be deducted for a speech becoming so referenced as to become sophomoric. Or maybe they felt having a caucasian male at the top of the list was inappropriate? Well in that case bump Malcolm X up 6 spots. Unless you think points should be deducted for open and frank discussion of when it's appropriate to fight back.

William Jennings Bryan's acceptance speech in 1900? What about his 1896 speech? Even if you're arguing these are ranked based on how historic they were rather than their quality, I don't get why Ted Kennedy's speech to the people of Massachusetts apologizing/denying he murdered a woman through his drunken antics qualifies in the top 100.
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I'd stop posting about Israel and Jews so much if the insanity would stop [Jan. 22nd, 2009|03:56 pm]
The NYT's newest op-ed columnist: Moammar Gadhafi


To quote the good doctor on Firefly: This must be what going crazy feels like.
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(no subject) [Jan. 20th, 2009|02:46 pm]
A court in the German capital struck down an administrative ban on Hamas flags, clothing and banners on Friday, but left in place the ban on invoking Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar's call to murder Israeli children worldwide.

Oh, ok.

You stay classy, Germany
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(no subject) [Jan. 18th, 2009|04:56 pm]
Bram and I sat in a lecture by a Holocaust survivor today. She had a very thick accent and for the first half she seemed to discuss minutiae that really didn't pertain to what I feel the audience was trying to glean out of the discussion. I suppose not everybody's experience can be as vivid as Anne Frank's though.

I asked a couple of questions, one whether the guards in the camps she was imprisoned in were sympathetic, hateful, or simply brutally efficient and apathetic. She responded with an anecdote about a German reservist who cried and said he was sorry to them every time, and called them his grandchildren. When they were released he wept.

The second question was whether she was ever worried that violent anti-semitism would ever emerge in the United States in her lifetime. She said yes, all the time. I was a bit bothered by that answer.
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Bush, Bad Presidents, and Elder Statesmen [Jan. 18th, 2009|02:51 am]
George W. Bush's image will be rehabilitated. People forget that bad or mediocre presidents often become good elder statesmen appreciated by the United States for their experience. Only one president I can think of has actually diminished his image post-presidency, Jimmy Carter, who acts today like he's still the president.
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The Wall Street Journal confirms: Macs are bourgeoisie [Jan. 18th, 2009|02:21 am]
I Once Was Chic, but Now I'm Cheap


No surprises to anybody who has half a brain and uses a computer and doesn't smell of fucking money. Being a smug Mac asshole used to be a self-contained world, but since Apple changed its architecture to x86 and introduced programs that allow you to run Windows on a Macintosh system it's been trendy to jump over and brag about what an independent software consumer you are. Then right after you run Windows because Excel doesn't fucking work in Mac OS X. The people who switch to Mac are the ones who can afford to buy two of everything, and it's no goddamn wonder their biggest customers are progressive douchebags.

For Conservatives one of the main arguments against expansion of government spheres is that over time because of the corruptive influences of special interests, it creates a class of "haves" who get loopholes written into the law, and "have nots" who are too poor or too uninfluential to be given a pass on an otherwise oppressive regulatory system.

A Mac user who insists that his OS is superior and openly wonders why others can't drop 3,000$+ to be like him as he switches over to Windows to use his Office suite, or to play a non-top 10 best seller video game is the epitome of this contradiction of progressive thought.
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(no subject) [Jan. 17th, 2009|12:11 pm]
If Joe Biden really loved AMTRAK he'd be riding coach to the inauguration, his eyes going stale and crusty with the recycled air being pumped through the HVAC, rather than a private luxury train.


I don't begrudge them riding up to D.C. in style, but why is it part of their platform to chastise the rest of us for wanting to live the same?
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Thought experiment for the day [Jan. 15th, 2009|03:30 pm]
The incessant mantra of the person who is photographed protesting Israeli behavior day in and day out whenever there's any sort of violence involving the Israeli Republic is that they do not really hate Jews, but just Zionism. I.E. The flag, the state, that faceless monolithic leviathan that crushes both Jewish person and Arab alike underneath its jackboot.

What is Zionism? Let's go with the most "liberal" definition (in this case meaning the definition that would seem to be the most slanted against Israel), which can always be found on a Wikipedia page of any given subject. Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine (Hebrew: Eretz Yisra'el, "the Land of Israel"), and continues primarily as support for the modern state of Israel.

So Zionism is essentially the manifestation of the belief shared by over 99% of Jewish people that they are in fact from the land of Israel centering around the river Jordan and bordering the Sinai, a belief confirmed by the historical record of Roman historians as well as countless historians of other cultures throughout history.

How can someone be friendly to Jewish people, who believe that they come from this area, and yet opposed to Zionism, which is the sentiment that you ought to actually act upon these beliefs and resettle the land of your ancestry? Are they saying that it's ok to think that you come from Israel, but not to act upon that information?  How can it not be considered anti-semitic to hate the manifestation of the cultural, ethnic, and religious beliefs of Jews?

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Mark Steyn at the National Review says: [Jan. 12th, 2009|02:31 pm]

In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You are the brothers of pigs!”, and a protester complains to his interviewer that “Hitler didn’t do a good job.”

 

In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!”

In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!”

In Toulouse, a synagogue is firebombed; in Bordeaux, two kosher butchers are attacked; at the Auber RER train station, a Jewish man is savagely assaulted by 20 youths taunting, “Palestine will kill the Jews;” in Villiers-le-Bel, a Jewish schoolgirl is brutally beaten by a gang jeering, “Jews must die.”

In Helsingborg, the congregation at a Swedish synagogue takes shelter as a window is broken and burning cloths thrown in; in Odense, principal Olav Nielsen announces that he will no longer admit Jewish children to the local school after a Dane of Lebanese extraction goes to the shopping mall and shoots two men working at the Dead Sea Products store; in Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a Belgian synagogue; in Antwerp, lit rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home; and, across the Channel, “youths” attempt to burn the Brondesbury Park Synagogue.

In London, the police advise British Jews to review their security procedures because of potential revenge attacks. The Sun reports “fears” that “Islamic extremists” are drawing up a “hit list” of prominent Jews, including the Foreign Secretary, Amy Winehouse’s record producer, and the late Princess of Wales’s divorce lawyer. Meanwhile, The Guardian reports that Islamic non-extremists from the British Muslim Forum, the Islamic Foundation and other impeccably respectable “moderate” groups have warned the government that the Israelis’ “disproportionate force” in Gaza risks inflaming British Muslims, “reviving extremist groups,”  and provoking “UK terrorist attacks” — not against Amy Winehouse’s record producer and other sinister members of the International Jewish Conspiracy but against targets of, ah, more general interest.

 

So, as I said, forget Gaza. And instead ponder the reaction to Gaza in Scandinavia, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and golly, even Florida. As the delegitimization of Israel has metastasized, we are assured that criticism of the Jewish state is not the same as anti-Semitism. We are further assured that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism, which is a wee bit more of a stretch. Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence. For the purposes of comparison, let’s take a state that came into existence at the exact same time as the Zionist Entity, and involved far bloodier population displacements. I happen to think the creation of Pakistan was the greatest failure of post-war British imperial policy. But the fact is that Pakistan exists, and if I were to launch a movement of anti-Pakism it would get pretty short shrift.   

But don't mind me, I'm just Godwinning here as someone said
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