I’m a big fan of the webcomic PvP. I almost fell off my seat when I saw this little speech bubble on yesterday’s strip: “It [Ghostbusters] was the first movie I memorized quotes from.”
That’s me. I was quoting from Ghostbusters long before I discovered Monty Python and before there even was a Blackadder. It’s been all downhill since then (just ask my wife!)
I’m not saying anything about the desirability of a new Islamic school in Camden, but judging by this sign shown in the ABC’s story on the issue I think some people could make better use of the schools they do have.
I’m sorry, but this sort of thing really brings out the [Bob the Angry Flower][2] in me.
[2]: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Daylight savings time is coming up this weekend in WA. Once it is over, we get to vote in a referendum (again).
Slashdot ran a story today about the end of DST in the northern hemisphere. Here a few of the more insighful comments.
I grew up in AZ – moved to a state that does daylight savings a couple years ago. I hate it. I never felt any lack for not having it or thought, “Gee, I wished we messed with the clocks twice a year.” – stoolpigeon
make everyone talk in UTC. That should do it. – frank_adrian
Russia has a dozen time zones and fares just fine – as does China, with only one. This business of claiming that ‘light’ is a problem needing a solution is the only issue here…- djupedal
So, scrap daylight savings time and replace it with a system of several thousand time zones, each updated daily based on the predicted “high noon” for that particular day at that particular location. If the prediction ends up being off by a few microseconds on a particular day, just change the time to correct it right then and there! Sure, wristwatches will become orders of magnitude more complex, but it’s the only way to have a truly sane and accurate system of time measurement. And after all, isn’t that what we all really want here? – eln
If people want/need to get up earlier or later to take advantage of the daylight then JUST GET UP EARLIER OR LATER! There is no good reason to change the clock backward and forward. Lots of places don’t do it and they don’t have any problems. – slashname3
I have had my copy of [NWN2][1] pretty much since it was released.
After a couple of false starts over the last two years, I have finally managed to play more than once or twice with a character and really get moving. I am almost at the end of Act I, and at 10th level.
This is not a review (it is a bit late for that), but I just wanted to share a mistake I found in the text.
At the Neverwinter Archive you find a series of books that you need to answer questions on. One of these books is [*"To Counter the Assumption of a Flat Faerûn"*][2], with ideas much like the old belief in a Flat Earth.
Now this is all well and good, but the name of the planet is **not** *Faerûn*, it is [*Abeir-Toril*][3]. This is like saying Flat Europe instead of Flat Earth.
Yes, I’m pathetic. No need to tell me.
[1]: http://www.nwn2.com
[2]: http://www.gamebanshee.com/neverwinternights2/walkthrough/neverwinterarchives.php
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeir-Toril
