Cobb: Thursday Fragments

July 21, 2005

Thursday Fragments

Harry, Unspoiled
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is by far, the most dramatic episode yet. Rowling took greater risks than I thought she would, and it has been a most entertaining few days listening to the audio recording. I was wrong; it wasn't Hagrid who died.

Whadda Yuan?
I'm not sure who these people think they are that they can try to force China to recalibrate their entire financial system in order that Americans with static business plans can be more profitable. The nerve. I hope this loosening of the currency shuts off their political momentum. The markets have reacted with a big jump in the bond yeild curve, which is rather expected.

Congressional Whoring
Clinton and Grand Theft Auto. Here's yet another nitwit trying to make a market safe for our pansy children. And what a surprise, there's a backdoor in the software. Well of course there is. There's always a backdoor, and I hope that the company gets off the hook for any legal liability. There's no deception of the ESRB here. For my dollar, I'd reissue the downgraded version with Hillary as the ho-face as an expression of free speech. On the other hand, just open it up and call it the director's cut AO rating and all. Still, I think most people will agree that we don't want any senators poking around in our videogames. Yuck!

Sniping
For some reason I feel emboldened to go hang out on lefty blogs and take potshots. Don't know why. It just feels like the right thing to do somehow. Let's see how it goes.

Posted by mbowen at July 21, 2005 08:16 PM

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On the subject of Hillary and GTA: Have you ever tried to add in patches to the computer versions of GTA? It's not that easy. If a young-un can find, download, and cleanly install the 'hot coffee' patch, or any others, I would think they have the mental capacity to know right from wrong.

i'm not sure if it is good blog etiquette to plug my own link in here, but I did write a little somethin somethin on this a few days ago: code-blue

Posted by: matt at July 22, 2005 06:40 AM

I think you bring up an excellent point which illustrates the meddlesome nature of Clinton's inquiry. My nickel says she wouldn't have a clue as to how to mod a game, or that this kind of thing goes on regularly in geek circles.

Thanks for the link. Y'all come back, ya hear?

Posted by: Cobb at July 22, 2005 07:05 AM