The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Black Review PS2

matt | February 28, 2006

(The title is an attempt to get Google to index it)
I bought Black today for PS2. I paid full price. This is the day that it came out.
I am on the second mission. I have been playing this same mission for 2 hours. I'm hungry. I want to have dinner. I CAN'T SAVE MY GAME.
Apparently, [...]

Book stack update

matt | February 23, 2006

Edit: Somehow, things got a little SNAFU-ed between this post and the one I loaded and edited to make this post (here). The comments attached to this post actually belong to the other one. I think because I updated the old one, changed the date, then submitted it, rather than creating a new ID, it [...]

Gun Pron

matt | February 18, 2006

(crossposted to )

Now, this is what happens when you have a “Tactical Cat”. See, you order ammo from Cabela's and it comes in a box. You take out the ammo, and the cat, Mikey, sensing the opportunity to establish a defensive position, claims the box as his own.

Anyway, I figured I'd post some pics of [...]

Two Party System

matt | February 13, 2006

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.04694:
Essentially, this bill will establish public funding for candidates running for the House of Representatives, so that they cannot be bankrolled by private donations. Now, the Republicans and the Democrats both automatically get funding, but no one else does, unless they got enough votes in the previous election, or can get a petition with a [...]

Snow

matt | February 12, 2006

In case anyone is curious, we've got about 2 feet (it's up to my kneecaps) and it's still coming down. It's pretty out there, but that's some serious snow.

More reading

matt | February 9, 2006

(Stolen from )
Illogical positions related to gun control:
http://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/rants/guncontrol.php
Scotland setting up a knife turn in program. See, they banned handguns, so people carry knives instead. This leads to an increase in stabbings, so they're banning pointy knives.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/55905.html

More political commentary

matt | February 5, 2006

Sabin sent me some links, and I figured I'd post my response. His original email is the >'ed one.
> I assume everyone knows about this…enjoy:
Actually, I did not – I've been busy.
> Muslims urge new cartoon protests
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4675462.stm
Funny that Jewish tradition prohibits actually writing the name of God on anything transient (hence constructions such as [...]