Here it is with my response:
The wait is over. Get your tickets for #ManofSteel now: bit.ly/MOStickets twitter.com/ManofSteelMovi…
— Man of Steel (@ManofSteelMovie) May 21, 2013
@manofsteelmovie @wbpictures I don’t think paying is what people were waiting for. Oh, you mean YOUR wait. Gotcha.
— Ethan Elias Johnson (@SharedProphet) May 22, 2013
The new Microsoft console, Xbox One, has just been revealed, with more details to come at E3. These are my initial thoughts. I’ve already written up and retweeted a bunch of immediate reactions on Twitter:
I will seduce you.
Lure you in,
Gently
Entwine my grip with your emotions,
Like fingers in your hair.
Suppose you want to be president of the United States. How would you get there? Well, assuming you were born into a wealthy family, you might start with law school and local politics. Make sure to practice public speaking and cultivate as much personal charisma as you can muster. Campaigns are expensive, and you wouldn’t want to squander all of your family’s wealth on them, so seek sponsors. After all, you understand that a personal investment of wealth in your own campaigns is a gamble, but for sponsors it’s an investment. Use the money donated by wealthy corporate and individual sponsors to advertise. To attain these donations, of course, you must support the interests of donors when in office. Those are the interests important to you for keeping your office; the lower classes can be influenced well enough by advertising and speeches, and you don’t even have to bother trying to earn the votes of partisans at all, as long as you purport to be a member of their party.
There’s an interesting contrast between these two views of what it means to win a Nobel Peace Prize:
Once upon time
A few mistakes ago
I was in your sights
You got me alone
You found me
You found me
You found me
Continue reading ‘Taylor Swift – I Knew You Were Trouble.: Alternate Lyrics’ »
There’s a new editorial up today on Kotaku describing a man’s struggle with the disconnect between reality and the elaborate systems of extrinsic rewards we have used as the basis of so many things in our society. As Kotaku is a gaming news website, the role of video games in this process is of course mentioned.
Continue reading ‘Extrinsic Motivation: the Danger That Games Embody’ »
Ranked by income inequality, the United States is now ninety-fifth in the world, just behind Nigeria, Iran, Cameroon, and the Ivory Coast. Continue reading ‘Just one representative data point’ »
Why should the President be the only one who presents his views on the current status of the nation? This is my assessment of the State of the Union.
Gotta get this in fast, since it is probably being worked on right now, or maybe I’m too late and just haven’t heard about it. Obama and Romney both will attempt to exploit Hurricane Sandy to gain more power. Obama will likely be successful. Expect it. Resist if you can.
If you are an American, or are interested in what is going on in America today, you should read this book: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald. The things that are happening now, described in this book, affect you.
I threw a wish in the well,
Don’t ask me, I’ll never tell.
I looked to you as it fell,
And now you’re in my way.
Continue reading ‘Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe: Alternate Lyrics’ »
A while back, Patrick Rothfuss reluctantly talked about politics on his blog: Continue reading ‘…also, politics.’ »
