Nine Muses

I have my Nintendogs! I have a little boy Shiba puppy named Hoshi so far. (You can have more, but can’t afford more than one at the start.) He’s adorable, and I’ve already taught him to sit and lie down. Sadly, he shows no interest in catching a frisbee. He just wants to pounce on it.

I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to take a screen shot and transfer it, but I’m guessing not. My one attempt at taking a pic with the digital camera came out very blurry, which is pretty much expected. Expect pictures if I can figure out a way to get a decent one.

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So, an eighty some year old woman (quite old enough to know how to read) ignores that the rating on GTA: San Andreas (a game which I think is awful, so my bias here is not such that I’m going to rave about the game.) is M for Mature, which means 17 and over, and buys it for her 14 year old grandson. Totally within her rights, yeah? Well, so the rating gets bumped up due to this Hot Coffee fiasco and is now AO, Adults Only, intended for 18 and over. And suddenly, it’s too awful for him and she has the game taken away from him and is suing Rockstar.

I mean seriously — show a little bit of personal responsibility here. Why are people not able to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices? Everything is someone else’s fault, and we have to sue to eke every cent we can out of whoever we can blame.

If you don’t like the game, don’t buy it. If you don’t like the show on TV, don’t watch it. And while you’re at it, don’t buy it for your kids or take a minute to block the show out (most modern TVs can do this sort of thing) or just keep an eye on your kids yourself!

(Yeah, I know I’m a little late on this bandwagon, but this one was so off that it even made the compiled Weird News on MSNBC.com, where I finally read it.)

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Last night, I was watching a show on TLC called Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children. I wish the site had more information about it, but as with most of the shows, let alone the information on the channel’s site, they only offer a glimpse of the whole story. I’m thinking about looking for a book on the subject when I hit Borders today — I remember reading a story when I was about ten that fascinated me.

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My main reason for moving to Blogger was ease of use. I’m not great at design, though I can handle HTML and CSS coding adequately, and so here I am with Blogger, with ready made templates. They add new features, and I don’t have to reinstall — just republish. It’s simple, and perfect for my recent site building laziness.

And yet, being me, I can’t just let things be. I have to tweak and fiddle and play until I’ve got things just as I like them. So, I spent a large chunk of my little bit of free time today: adding a Technorati search box, figuring out how to use Technorati tags, putting Technorati tags on all my posts (Thankfully there’s only ten so far.), and putting a Furl link list in my links section.

Oh! I also put my Xfire profile info at the bottom, mostly because it’ll be fun to see what games I’m spending the most time on.

I can’t imagine I’m done tweaking, but we’ll see.

So when did Blogger add in captcha for comment posting? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there earlier in the week when I switched comments to Registered Users only, but maybe I’ve just been missing it? Either way, it’s awful cool. I turned it on. Combat spam begone!