Girl Gamers

So you have a problem, youlove video games but your girlfirend does not. How do you fix this problem. The answer is, Gateway games. For the average non gammer, our fixation is difficult to understand and even harder to describe. But there is a way to introduce intereste that special someone to an aspect of your world you may have kept hidden to that she did not understand. Shivam Bhatt ( i have no idea who he is ) has come up with a list of games to pull the average non-gamer into our world and it is aimed specificly at girls.

Check it out here. Top Ten Girlfriend-Friendly Games

I must say i am impressed with the thought put into this list. Now time to try it out.

Franks Adventures in Japan

So my friend frank is heading off to Japan for two months to work at K2K. This is a nutrino experiment where they fire neutrinos many kilometers through the earth and detect them at the other end to figure out stuff about the standard model and how it's broken. He is blogging his adventure there and it sounds like it is going to be interesting.

You can find out more about his andventures here.

Ive always wanted to go to japan, i hope he has a good time. I immagine the DDR players there are truly astounding in there skill. I was looking up information on vending machiens the other day because we want to replace the machines in the colledge with our own. I found a site discussing all the strange things you can get in vending machines in Japan. Some of the normal things where pop and snackes. Then you got into things like Sake and beer, 12 kg bags of rice, deep fried food and porn. But i was truly shocked when i saw a picture of a vending machine selling used schoole girls panties. It is truly a culture where you can get away with the most odd things. Then again i am sure some of the things they see us doing are weird to them. Still, used panties.

Anyway, have fun frank and take lots of pictures

18 Rules Everyone Should Live By

Don't remember where i found these but I think they are very usefull.
Enjoy =:>

1. O'REILLY'S LAW OF THE KITCHEN
Clenliness is next to impossible.
2. LIEBERMAN'S LAW
Everybody lies; but it doesn' matter, since nobody listens.
3. DENNISON'S LAW
Virtue is its own punishment.
4. GOLD'S LAW
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
5. HANDY GUIDE TO MODERN SCIENCE
If it's green or it wiggles - it's biology
If it stinks, it's chemistry
If it doesn't work, it's physics
6. CONWAY'S LAW
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what
is going on. This person MUST be fired.
7. GREEN'S LAW OF DEBATE
Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.
8. STEWART'S LAW OF RETROACTION
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
9. FIRST RULE OF HISTORY
History doesn't repeat itself --- historians merely repeat each
other
10. FINSTER'S LAW
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
11. OLIVER'S LAW OF LOCATION
no matter where you go, there you are.
12. LYNCH'S LAW
When the going gets tough - everyone leaves.
13. GLYME'S FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake thet,
you've got it made.
14. MASON'S FIRST LAW OF SYNERGISM
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
15. THE SAUSAGE PRINCIPLE
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch
either one being made.
16. HARRISON'S POSTULATE
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
17. HALON'S RAZOR
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity.
18. MUIR'S LAW
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe.

It Finaly Happened

As i was comeing home from my latest Role playing adventure setting, with my tim hortons coffee comfortably resting in the drivers side cup holder, i perchanced to notice my petrollevels where dangerously low. Pulling into the first Petrocan i could see i noticed it was closed. Odd, i thought, it's only 11:30. continuing along the road i spotted a chevron on the left. knowing there was another petrocan around the corner i did not bother stopping but i did happent to nitice the price on the billboard $1.05 /L.

OMG, it's finaly happened, gas has passed a dollar a L. During the last fule war it had reached $0.999 but no one would dare pass the dollar mark. Lately gas stations have been up grading there signs to handel the extra diget so you knew it was comeing but that did not make it any more shocking when i saw it. I swear when i went to my friends at 7:00 it was still below a dollar so it must have happend some time between then and 11. I eventualy made it to the petrocan and was pleasently supprised when the price was only $0.985 (plus $0.035 petro card discount) While paying for my gas purchace i mentioned to the local attendent my observations down the street and he informed me that they would be raising there peices in a half hour aswell. I felt really lucky but even now i still wonder what caused the huge jump. nearly 7 cenus in a singal jump.

If thing continue as they are i will not be able to afford to gas my car. I guess if others feel the way i do this is a vicory for enviornmentalists everywhere and to be truthfull i am not mad at the higer prices. If they convince more people to take the bus i think it is a good thing. I only drive when nessessary, i take the bus quite often so i don't feel so bad about it.