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THE ARIZONA CARDINALS ARE IN THE SUPER BOWL…IT FINALLY SUNK IN.

This is visual proof...we haven't been dreaming the last two weeks. Go Big Red!!!

From Ed Federmeyer, lead programmer on The Conduit, about their obsession with reading game forums and hearing fans, since they were self-funded and didn’t have publisher restrictions:

A great example of this was that we were not going to do online multiplayer at first. The team really wanted to do it, but we just didn’t have the resources to make it work. We made plan after plan, and schedule after schedule to try to make it fit, but it just could not be done in the time we had with the people we had. After PAX though, so many fans talked about how much an online mode would mean to them, our management saw that, and brought in the resources we needed to do it. It really would not have been possible without that level of excitement from the fans!

Devin, I forgot to mention this to you a couple days back. The Graveyard Book was chosen for the Newbery. Gutsy choice, if you ask me. We were looking at it on the Grand Canyon Committee beforehand, though, so it does give affirmation that we’re on the same wavelength.

It shouldn’t really surprise anyone that Rabbit wrote about death. But, here’s the poem for all to enjoy:

It came to me the other day:

Were I to die, no one would say,

‘Oh, what a shame! So young, so full

Of promise – depths unplumbable!

Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes

Will greet my overdue demise;

The wide response will be, I know,

‘I thought he died a while ago.’

For life’s a shabby subterfuge,

And death is real, and dark, and huge.

The shock of it will register

Nowhere but where it will occur.

Interesting take on death, especially since not too many people would know the name ‘John Updike’ if you walked up to them and said it on the street.

Child soldiers are now testifying in the trial of Thomas Lubanga. Check out the real-life 24.

I weep:

Thanks for the link, Ohm.

I was thinking this morning about very important matters, one of which being the extent of English being a living, constantly changing language. (My assistant is out sick today so you, faithful reader, reap the rewards.)

The Double G Intensifier Unleashed
Since this is now published, you’ll be seeing it in textbooks everywhere. I swear.

Consider dig:

and digg:

or

dog:

dogg:

flag:

flagg:

Whenever you want something intensified, add a double ‘g’ unleashed. (Except after ‘c’ and sometimes ‘y’.)

Not quite as awesome as Unleashed Pastries, but still cool. (I would say this is more Tech Nerd Slightly Volatile in power level.)

Check out using a Wiimote as a Bluetooth device to control your computer. Now if any of us actually ran Ubuntu…

The more curious thought appears in one of the comments:

Mr Bob Said,
January 17, 2009 @ 11:13 am

So it seems to me you could put a wii controller in a model airplane running ubuntu an use the x, y, z pitch roll and accelerometer to basically have a less than $100 autopilot.

Seem possible to anyone else?

A lot happened in last night’s Star Wars session, but let’s not forget the most important discovery- I don’t joke around when it comes to cake.  With a recipe like this, you don’t have to.

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil’s food cake mix
• 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup warm water
• 2 cups mini semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs and water. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into a well greased 13 x 9 inch pan.
3. Bake for approximately 35 minutes minutes.  Cool cake thoroughly in pan.  Enjoy the deliciousness.