RedBeard’s Curious Life

I’d like to announce my candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. You might think it a little premature, but this country needs a serious kick back into gear before it becomes totally derailed, and I see no reason to wait until I’m of legal age to begin spreading the word. Our national self-image is so disjointed from reality that it’s become a comedic target, and this rift is only serving to increase our complacency and widen the gap between our peak potential and our current state of affairs.

My platform? Elementary, dear reader. This country needs an engineer to properly address our political and societal machinery that has become rusted and inefficient. Many areas need to be modified, and nothing is safe from reform. Among the areas that need the most work:
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We’ve had devices called PDAs for a while now, purporting to be “personal digital assistants”, but in reality they’re more like digital address books. A real assistant doesn’t just file your notes and remind you of appointments and force you to do most of the work involved in such tasks; a real assistant does useful work, such as taking notes, fleshing out dictations, compiling information into reports, and arranging appointments around the schedules of all involved. Some argue that with modern organizational software (think MS Office, Outlook/Exchange in particular), the effort of performing assistive tasks is diminished to the level that someone can do the work themselves just as quickly and effectively as telling a human assistant to do it.

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So, let’s see what’s going on in the world lately…
Litigation, extortion, and gaming ahoy!

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It seems to be the time of year when TV shows decide to tie up their loose ends and go on holiday, some never to return. I’d like to briefly comment on the ones I witnessed during the past week or so. Spoilers abound, so you might want to stop reading now if you’ve got a finale sitting on your Tivo waiting to be viewed.

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I bought some new games recently, and instead of just sticking them all on a shelf, I actually played some of them! Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Tomb Raider Legend, SiN Episodes Emergence, and Beyond Good & Evil. I bought some more but haven’t played them yet.

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