What a difference a year makes! The Red Sox, in the World Series again for the first time since '07... wow. Before this season I would not have guessed that we'd get this far; of course you're always hopeful, but making it to the World Series, just a year after we finished in last place? Wow!
So yeah, it's pretty awesome. Oh, and it's a rematch against our opponents from '04, the Cardinals. They're clearly very good, but hopefully we figure it out again and win this one too. It'd be pretty awesome. :)
I've seen enough modern classrooms lately that I can say that TV shows seem to be under the impression that schools still exist in 1982.
They are using CHALK BOARDS of all things. Every modern class room I've seen is using a massive touch screen projector system instead. Also, why do teachers just have paper on their desks? Where's their computers?
I won't rewrite my post about how stupid the Republicans are acting and how the extremists who run the party now are anti-democratic, but yeah, those things are true. It really is fantastic that the Democrats are not caving this time, and as time progresses, the Republicans have edged closer and closer to surrender. Now they're talking about what they want, but they've backed down from "we must kill health care reform"; now they're just going back to bad old Republican ideas about shrinking government, cutting taxes, etc. Their demands are still quite unreasonable, though, and Obama and Harry Reid have no reason to give in now. And indeed, they aren't. The Republicans will need to give up a lot more of what they want before they get anywhere, for sure. And that's good -- we cannot allow them to destroy the government, or the government's ability to function, just because of their ideological crusade against the concept of governance (unless it's THEIR medicare/social security in question, that they want!).
Also, it's good that some of the Senate Republicans, who are not nearly as affected by the gerrymandering problem (once again, gerrymandering leads to house districts being more polarized because most members have no threat from the other party -- it's a very, very serious problem in our government right now), aren't quite as crazy as the House, or Ted Cruz, are. They're still wrong, but not completely out of their minds extreme...
Let me get this out of the way. I think the term "meme" is only really useful as an analogy and simplification and falls far short of a true full explanation of culture and anthropology. Then again, the notion of "genes" is also an oversimplification that falls short of a full explanation of DNA and protein sequences. However, that doesn't mean they aren't useful.
This is a game that was in low numbers. Not THAT low compared to some, but it fetches ebay prices even more insane than Earthbound.
They finally put it on 3DS, so I picked it up myself as I just didn't bother when it first came out.
One fair warning. They didn't make sure to enable the "Advance mode" features. Nothing that actually used Gameboy Advance hardware, but if it detected it was on a GBA, it would unlock some extras like an extra transformation. Rather pathetic that Nintendo couldn't work out how to get something as simple as a small flag in their Gameboy Color emulator. That really seems like a simple task. All the same, the rest of the game is intact and runs very well. (I also wonder if the Zelda Oracle games don't have the "advance rings" in them on 3DS.)
