View From the Bushes

The weekend was a mixed bag. On the one hand, I was vaguely productive (certainly a rare enough occurance to warrant special mention). On the other hand, in an idiotic move, I shorted out the DVD player we bought for the car. I also did something else incredibly stupid, but I'll leave you to figure out what that was. Another reason why it was mixed is that Friday and Saturday were the first good days we've had in what seems like months, and rather than being outside enjoying it, I was inside being "vaguely productive."

Since I don't (or try not to) work on Sunday, it ended up being a video game day. I know that's not really that much better, but my addiction to World of Warcraft has waned to the point where I finally installed Knights of the Old Republic II, and played it for a little while. It brings back some great memories of the original game, though it does seem to start kind of slowly, (which many people have commented on) but so far it's been fun, though it's already apparent that it won't be as good as the original.

Looking around the web, I see an article from the BBC on trap-building ants and another on how revisionists are butchering the history of World War II. The former is cool; the latter is, of course, alarming. For example, "American textbooks discuss World War II as if a Patton, Le May, or Nimitz did not exist, as if the war was essentially the Japanese internment and Hiroshima." *sigh*

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Ross