Friday, April 15, 2005

DND, now theyll leave us alone

In a recent post I told you about my recent spam unsubscribe escapades. I am happy to report that in the 10 days (the amount of time some of the spams said they would need to fulfill my request) following I only received 15 spamessages. The 5 days since have been completely spam free. Let this be a ray of hope to all of you. You can relieve your spambox of all the pressure its under if youre just willing to invest a couple 4 hours into unsubscribing.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Since Ive been loving you

After watching the latest Strong Bad Email I decided to do a little research on the old NES game Rampage. My search found this article. Many things struck me about this story. First, this kid got his feet on at least 49 turtles before anyone was able to stop him. Very impressive. Second, the kid, who was born 4 years after Super Mario Brothers was first released, claimed that he was reenacting the game and was preventing the turtles from growing wings and kidnapping the princess. Awesome. Next the lawyer Fred Johnson tries to equate the violence in SMB to Grand Theft Auto. Perhaps the most amazing thing is the dad. Heres a quote from him. "He's active in school sports and made the honor roll last semester. I don't know what happened. Maybe we should have let him bring his Game Boy on vacation." Maybe you should have. Let that be a lesson to all you parents who give your kids video games and then take them away for family development purposes.