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They don't make them like this anymore

Which kind of video game do you think is better? The kind that you buy, play for two weeks, and defeat it and never play it again. Or the video game that you bought 25 years ago and still have the same fun that you had when you first got it? I think that 25 years and counting is a better value for your money and for fun.





My all time favorite video game is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for the Intellivision. I just got done playing it. I played four games of it this morning. 3 wins and 1 loss.

You start with three lives and that's all you have for the entire game. You move toward the big mountain where the dragons have stolen the crown jewels. You need to recover them. BUt in order to get there, you must enter other mountains that have different creatures in them. And tools that you will need to get past natural barriers like rivers and forests.

Obviously the graphics aren't the greatest in the world but graphics aren't everything. I much prefer that a game actually be fun than look nice. Unfortunately the games today are more interested in looking good and not in being fun. Instead of 15 minutes a game, it take weeks to finish and then you never want to play it again.


You can get this game on the intellivisionlives.com website in their Intellivision lives cd-rom. Only its not called Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Instead its called its in development name: Adventure.

How did the lower classes fare in Ancient Rome?

First-century burial grounds near Rome's main airport are yielding a rare look into how ancient longshoremen and other manual workers did backbreaking jobs, archaeologists said Monday.

The necropolis, which spanned the late 1st century into the 2nd century, near the town of Ponte Galeria came to light last year when customs police noticed a clandestine dig by grave robbers seeking valuable ancient artifacts, Rome's archaeology office said.

Most of the 300 skeletons unearthed were male, and many of them showed signs of years of heavy work: joint and tendon inflammation, compressed vertebrae, hernias and spinal problems, archaeologists said. Sandy sediment helped preserve the remains well.

Also excavated was a skeleton of a man whose lower jaw was fused to his upper jaw.

Study indicated "how for all of his life this individual was fed, likely through the care of his family" with liquids or semisolids "introduced through a hole made through his teeth," the archaeology statement said.

The man lived into his 30s, a decent age at the time. Experts took that as evidence that the lower classes cared for the disabled.

While walking today...

I walk down at Brady's Run with my cousin and today we came across a snake. My cousin took a picture with her cell phone and emailed it to me. This is the first snake I've seen around here in years. I used to see them all the time and was beginning to think they had all disappeared for good. But nope. He left soon after the picture was taken.

Pirates 1st draft under Huntington

Ok. Back aways I said the draft would tell us how serious the new management is. They passed with flying colors on that score. Now the test is actually signing the pick. If they don't, then I'm going to be quite annoyed with them. If they do sign them, I might end my boycott of going to the stadium that's been enforced since 1993 when they let Barry Bonds walk away without offering him a contract because they were afraid he would sign it.

Islam taught in Texas School

Pastor Dave Welch, executive director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, is just one of those angry over a presentation by two female representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that students at the Friendswood Junior High School were forced to attend two weeks ago.

"The specific details, as we were given by the students, included teachings that Adam, Noah, and Jesus were all prophets like Mohammed; the basic tenets of Islam; the process of how to pray five times a day; again, the pillars of Islam. These were specific, religious instructions," Welch explains.

Welch says Principal Robin Lowe explained to parents, who initially complained, that the assembly was held to deal with comments some students had made that were insensitive to Arab students. "This was not just cultural issues of the manners and ways of Arab culture. This was Islamic teaching," says the Houston pastor. "That was the issue that, obviously, raised great concern. This was forced religious instruction and [what we call] Islamic ... 'indoctrination.'"

Even more egregious, Welch says, is the fact that the principal was allegedly ordered by the superintendent of the school district not to allow the pro-Islam assembly, but did so anyway.

I wonder what the ACLU would have to say if the assembly was saying that "Jesus is God", "Jesus is the only way to Eternal Life", "God is Trinitarian", ect...

Something tells me there would be shouts of bloody murder.

Marriage protection initiative qualifies for CA ballot

An initiative that would again protect traditional marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot, the Secretary of State announced Monday.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said a random check of signatures submitted by the measure's sponsors showed that they had gathered enough names for it to be put to voters.

The measure would amend the state constitution to "provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Penguins win

Penguins win in triple overtime. But the point of the post is to wonder if the fans will still continue to hate Malkin after that wonderful pass he gave to whomever won the game with that shot.

And just so those that know I don't like hockey aren't going huh he watched. Only the last period and a half of overtime. I was waiting for Leno. :P But I'm probably to tired to watch him now since they'll most likely have news and then Leno.

100,000 Bible to U.S. Troops in 100 days

Several large Christian organizations kicked off a campaign Sunday that aims to give 100,000 Bibles to U.S. troops worldwide over the course of 100 days.

US soldiers observe a moment of silence during a citizenship ceremony at the U.S. base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday May 26, 2008. Afghanistan has seen a sharp rise in violence in the last year, even as the U.S. and NATO have poured thousands of new troops into the country. The U.S. now has some 33,000 troops in Afghanistan, the most ever.The Operation Worship Bible, a special edition of the New Living Translation, was made available exclusively at Christian Booksellers Association retailers on June 1 for customers to buy and write a personal message of encouragement to an active-duty member of the military.

Stealing Michigan Delegates

At one point, Mr. Ickes implied that Mr. Obama had his name removed from the Michigan ballot to "curry favor" with participants in Iowa's first-in-the nation caucuses on Jan. 3, which he won.

Allan Katz, a committee member from Florida who was wearing an Obama pin during the hearings, said no one should compare the current dispute with Florida's 2000 recount mess.

"That election was stolen," he said, citing a common refrain among state Democrats who believe former Vice President Al Gore defeated then Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Yet they don't see the same thing occuring when someone that wasn't voted for gets nearly half the delegates. He wasn't on the ballot because he took his name off the ballot on his free will and now gets the delegates anyway. Must be nice having special rules just for you when you run for office.