Shameless Words from Shameless Geeks

I don’t know about you, but I’m just plain sick and tired of having to choose between crappy candidates in every election. At this stage of the process, we are usually looking at the list of possible nominees hoping that each party will present their best for the general election. They never do.

On the left side of the aisle, the front runner is Mrs. Clinton. Sorry Hill, I didn’t like you much when you were president the first time. The other side isn’t any better. Heck. we could end up with another “acting” president.

Back in my youth, (yes, we had elections that long ago) some of my classmates came up with a novel approach to calling attention to the fact that a school election was being rigged in favor of a teacher’s son. They ran Spiny Norman as a write-in candidate. Weren’t we all surprised when he won!

For those of you who don’t know Spiny, he first came to fame in 1970 on the long ago canceled Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Back then, his job was to hunt down the notorious Piranha Brothers, though only Dinsdale believed in his existence.

He has since retired from public service to take up a career in politics. Obviously, he is still dealing with piranhas.

So,in honor of those brave classmates, and in celebration of yet-another-crop-of-loser-candidates, I’d like to invite everyone to write Spiny Norman in as a candidate for President. Look forward to more news of Spiny and his prospects for election right here at Spiny Norman’s Election Headquarters. You can also click on the picture of Spiny on the left to buy Spiny Norman For President tee shirts.

Here’s a chuckle…

In the middle of a fiery speech about the evils of capitalism and the virtues of socialism, a Venezuelan minister was tongue tied when confronted by a reporter who pointed out his Gucci shoes and Vuitton tie.

Jeez… and the call ME Shameless!

Ok, so I’m a little late with the November search string post. So busy, so sorry, so what. This month is a little light on new material, so this should be short.

pflugerville furries
Once again, this one tops the list. After a careful search of all of my web pages, it turns out that the only place that this term appears is in the search strings articles. My monthly comments about this are what perpetuates the problem. That’s OK… It’s fun to pick on the terminally silly.

pflugerville furries are a fetish
pflugerville furries arent a fetish
Its nice to see that we appeal to the confused of all stripes (and spots, and pelts, and feathers… you get the point). How’s that for Fair and Balanced. Take That Fox! (oooh… furry tailed dog-like creature)

and also…
pflugerville texas gas log installation
Now THATS a fetish!

cheats naked sims unblur
how to unblur the sims nude
I’m really prouf of you folks. There were only 2 perverts who want to see naked pixels this month. Usually, we get a couple of dozen.

how to insert dual core into motherboard
Wow. Sounds like someone has a problem.Just remove the screws from the fan grate and… Well, better not go into that one again.

Most of the remaining queries were pretty sane. I’m not sure if the internet is getting smarter, or if the really stupid people are dying off after doing something stupid in meatspace (like microwaving their own heads).

Merriam-Webster Inc. has crowned w00t as word of the year. There is something that always bothered me about that word. It claims to be 1337, but it uses a “t” where it should use a “7″. I don’t want to put my fellow geeks down, but WTFO?

I guess the guy at Reuters who wrote the article didn’t do a very good job of checking his work. First of all, he mentioned that “t” is usually replaced by a “7″, then called it 133t. That sounds a little clueless to me.

Scientists are now telling us that evolution is speeding up. This is contrary to the prior theory that all evolution stops when the sick and genetically imperfect are allowed to live. The theory stated that there is no way to improve the gene pool unless genetically inferior humans were allowed to die. So much for the theory.

If we are evolving so quickly, why does it look like people are getting dumber? I guess that, while some of us are in the fast lane, others are stuck in a genetic traffic jam.

It looks like GameSpot may have fired a veteran reviewer for writing a negative review. There is nothing new about this kind of thing. Game publishers have been controlling the outcome of reviews for years. How many times have we seen reviews that blasted gameplay, stability, and graphics in the text, yet gave the game a 90% plus rating?

From the perspective of the publishers, it’s an easy business decision. If they can control the outcome of reviews by controlling where they spend their advertising dollars, why shouldn’t they? It’s like getting “unbiased” advertising for free!

If you look at “game journalism” as a whole, this kind of thing is inevitable. The entire “industry” is based on a group of people who play games for a living, then give their opinions of them. Playing video games in your office requires no training and no skills at all. You could argue that writing the review requires some skill, but a large percentage of these reviews show no evidence of skill whatsoever.

Given the amount of skill and training necessary to be a game reviewer, how large do you think the pool of replacement reviewers is? If one of them annoys a cash-cow advertiser, how difficult will he be to replace? Given everything else we know it’s easy to see that negative reviews are anti-survival behavior. In the end, we are left with nothing but a group that is afraid to say anything bad about a current or potential advertiser.

If, after close examination of how and why reviews are made, you still depend on paid reviewers for your info… then I have a really good deal on a bridge I’d like to show you.