I'm officially addicted to SSX Tricky for Playstation 2, and I've only played it three times. We just got it this weekend. The kids have been doing so well in school, that we decided to buy them each a game and a book. So we went to Gamestop and Brent picked SSXT. Kailee, on the other hand, searched and searched but couldn't find something she really wanted. She briefly considered getting Monopoly, but it's just sad how few video games there are for 8-year old girls.

In the end, Kailee decided she wanted to go to Best Buy and get Zoo Tycoon, which is a really great game. It's difficult for me to watch her play it because I'm Type A and I get frustrated when she names an exhibit the "monkey zoo," puts elephants in it, and then puts so many trees in that you can't even see the elephants anymore. But she loves it, and whenever an animal becomes unhappy, she says, "Oh, my poor babies." She has yet to try SSX Tricky.

Six-year old Brent (soon to be known as "seven-year old Brent), on the other hand, has already mastered SSXT because one of his friends has it. He played it several times this weekend, but he also got into Zoo Tycoon, too. Except that he went for the chaos. He let the tigers out so that they could chase the people, he put the leopards in an exhibit with the chickens, and he put the saltwater crocodiles in with the water buffaloes (which upset Kailee to no end because one of the buffaloes had just given birth to a baby). He also deliberately put the bathrooms off the paths so that the "zoo patrons" couldn't get to them and would be unhappy. Kailee's bedtime request tonight was that Brent not be allowed to play ZT anymore. She also deliberately didn't save his game, even though she told him it was an "accident."

Now I can't wait until we go back to the Brookfield Zoo! Snowboarding, on the other hand, can wait a little longer, given how well I did on my three practice runs.

[The Shifted Librarian]

» The funniest post of the day for me.

Almost makes me want to have kids.  Then I snap out of it and come to my senses ;-)

BTo gets tough with Sat bandwidth hogs. Stoppit [The Register]

» There is something I fundamentally don't understand about all these hogging charges by broadband vendors.  They sell you broadband, lets say 512Kbps, then get all uppity when you actually use it.  Is it just me or are they having their cake and eating it?

Googlebombing Coble. I would ask, before you do this, how you think you might react if supporters of coble were to googlebomb Tara Sue? I'm gonna bet you'd be pretty pissed at that kind of lowbrow, fundamentally dishonest tactic.

So you would have us subvert access to Coble's website to reduce the exposure of people to a candidate you don't like? I'm guessing it's because you think the Coble-Berman bill restricts fundamental freedoms right? Ok, uhm... someone needs a smack with a clue-by-four.

Memetics experiment of the nobelest kind? You sure? Really? Seems like a pretty shitty thing to do. Not to mention ever so slightly hypocritical.

[The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

» I'm not sure I agree, but It took me a while to figure it out (I started out not agreeing, then thought about it a bit and began to agree, then came right back around again).

As I read him, Seb is really only talking about making Tara sue a top 10 hit on Coble.  Not eradicating Coble from the list.   In fact I think the idea of having Tara Sue appear in a search for Coble is about right, in fact everyone running against him should appear as a service to the public looking for information about whose running.  I notice that Tara actually links to Coble from her page.

So, I don't really think Seb is heading for the Dark Side just yet.  But we'd better keep an eye on him, he could turn at any time!

The sad thing is that what really drew me to comment on this post is not the high brow moral philosophy but the phrase "smack with a clue-by-four" for which you are to be congratulated!