- I’m happy to see the new MacBooks popup. I’m glad they’re offering a black model. I’m not happy to see that they’re charging a $200 premium for the black case. Lame.
- When I first saw the story about the teacher that had his students write about how they would carry out a murder I was underwhelmed: Just one more idiot who shouldn’t be in charge of children. Then I saw this quote from the article: “But [St. Joseph School District spokesman Steve Huff] said the incident probably isn’t serious enough to cost Maxwell his job.” Excuse me? What sort of incident would be serious enough to cause a lunatic like that to lose their job? Out of character or not, this is a firing offense in my book. Don’t get me wrong, I think teachers are valuable assets, but that sentiment only applies to good teachers. The problem with teachers’ unions is that they operate under the mistaken assumption that anyone who is enough of a “martyr” to decide to persue teaching is automatically a good teacher. There are so many flaws in that ideology I can’t even begin to pick them apart but the end result is crap like this where teachers who display a severe lack of judgement don’t get what they deserve.
- The more I see Sony react to their almost unanimously poor showing at E3, the more I’m inclined to agree with opinions like the latest micro-rant over on Joystiq. It’s been obvious for a long time that Sony would always, always rather push a proprietary format that they can control and scrape stupid profits from than go with something universal where they have to rely on difficult things like content to sell merchandise. And the history (especially recent history) backs that up: I explained already that I have been flat-out disappointed by PS2 exclusives by and large where XBox and GameCube-only titles that I’ve played have been stellar. The PSP (other than the recently announced Silent Hill Origins) has nearly no games available I’m interested in and my desire to purchase movies in more than one format is less than nil. Technically, it’s a superior device to the DS, but I’m a couple weeks away from purchasing a DS because I like it’s content. Sony has yet to learn that technological superiority holds exactly zero water outside of marketing conventions and it seems that they are poised to have this lesson (which, to be fair, they’ve had ample opportunity to learn) drummed into their heads yet again.
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