I bought Kerbal Space Program the other day. This video is perhaps the best one I’ve found to give a good feel for it:
You build rockets and attempt to get your little Kerbals to space, with a whole solar system to explore. And while that may sound pretty straightforward and maybe even boring, the mix of the real epic feeling you get when you make a successful launch, with the hilarity of giving little green men (with the apparent intelligence of my seven month old puppy, that is, more enthusiasm than anything else) huge tanks of explosive liquids makes for a very entertaining time. As I heard someone else describe it: “Kerbal Space Program–failure is always an option.”
And that the game is this good while still in an early Alpha state means things can only go up!
Dudley Brown, director of the RMGO (see upper left sidebar for link)
That article lays out some serious stupidity on the part of the Democrats. John “Let the Cleansing Begin” Morse now says that he doesn’t really think these laws will do anything. And here’s John “Look At Me, I’m A Moderate, No Really” Hickenlooper saying that he didn’t mean it when he made a bunch of laws that turn ME into a felon for letting my range buddy load a magazine for me without us PAYING and WAITING for a background check EVERY TIME we pass it back and forth to each other. Does he really think that me telling a zealous, irritable, and half-clueless police officer “No, that’s not what they meant when they wrote it that way!” will get him to stop trying to arrest me? REALLY?
I was really looking forward to seeing the dumb looks on their faces when they were pitched out of the capital building come November 2014; it’s a little bit gratifying to see said looks so much sooner than that.
And for all the cluelessness around the national Republican Party, it is very good to see that it seems the locals have their heads on straight–rather than getting discouraged, they’re getting pissed off. And it’s time to start lighting some torches, as they say.
“I’m just a common man,” I once
heard someone loudly say,
“I’m poor, I’m old! I work too hard!
What good’s another day?”
Then he walked across his carpet
to his new color T.V.
Lit another big cigar –
and cursed his poverty.
I know another man who in
a simple house resides,
delvers mail throughout the day
and works a farm besides.
Then runs home to his family,
to sing, to feel their touch –
“Oh Lord,” he cries, “I’m special!
You’ve given me so much!”
(A poem my mother and uncle used in my grandpa’s funeral, a poem that grandpa had found in the 1960′s. He was the country mailman, and grew pinto beans and various grains on his 80 acres in his spare time, living in the same house since 1956 when they moved out from Kansas. I will leave it to you to decide which man in the poem was my grandpa.)
SpaceX’s Grasshopper is completely and totally awesome:
24 stories, so far. Think about the implications of something like that. Re-using every rocket. Not needing some insane parachute system to land on Mars. I don’t know where the world is going, but I want to be on Elon Musk’s team.
Justice to the left of you
Justice to the right
Speak when you are spoken to
Don’t pretend you’re right
This life’s not for living
It’s for fighting and for war
No matter what the truth is
Hold on to what is yours
Jigsaw puzzle traitors
Set to spill the beans
Constitution screw up
Shattering the dreams
Blood flows in the desert
Dark citadels burning too
Watch! Look over your shoulder
This one is strictly for you
Hold on – Hold on
Wait maybe the answer’s
Looking for you
Hold on – Hold on
Wait! Take you time
Think it through
Yes! I can make it through
Hold on – Hold on
Sunshine shine on through
Hold on – Hold on
Sunshine shine on you
See it through
Talk the simple smile
Such platonic eye
How they drown in incomplete capacity
Strangest of them all
When the feeling calls
How we drown in stylistic audacity
Charge the common ground
Round and round and round
We living in gravity
Shake – We shake so hard
How we laugh so loud
When we reach
We believe in eternity
I believe in eternity
Hold on – Hold on
Wait – Take your time Sunshine shine on through
See it through
Hold on – Hold on
Wait – Maybe a chance Sunshine shine on through
Is looking for you Sunshine shine on you
Hold on – Hold on
Hold on – Hold on
Sunshine – Shine on shine on you
Sunshine – Shine on through
Sunshine – Shine on shine on through
Sunshine – Shine on you
Sunshine – Shine on – Shine on you Hold on – Hold on
Sunshine – Shine on through Wait – Take your time
See it through
Sunshine – Shine on – Shine on through Hold on – Hold on
Sunshine – Shine on you Wait – Maybe the answer’s looking for you
maybe about how cheesy the 80′s music is, or the design choices of whoever bought that black and white polka-dotted cha–HOLY CRAP THAT THING JUST ATE THE CHAIR.
This is the coolest music video I’ve seen since Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia.” Baseball, football, lacrosse, motorbikes, hockey, and I’m pretty sure there was some rugby–all on top of a cheesy 80′s vision of a post apocalyptic future… yeah.
Added: dagnabbit, there was some sort of issue with the first one, it was an entire playlist. If you look at it now, it’s the one video I was talking about.
Oh, and I’ve now watched the video 3 times in a row. It’s still cool.
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