Katt: CNN Story Highlights:
Katt: NASA: There’s water on the moon
Info comes from satellite sent to moon last month
Spokesman: “Indeed. Yes, we found water”
Discovery “opens new chapter in our understanding of the moon”
Katt: I’d like to see a whole bunch of bullet points that are like:
Katt: There’s water on the moon
Katt: NASA found it
Katt: It’s a whole bunch
Katt: Yes, there is water
Katt: It’s on the moon
Katt: We didn’t know about water on the moon before but we do now

Dan: http://stackoverflow.com…
Dan: python!
Dan: answer: python is wack
Me: from __future__ import division
Me: Oh shit that package is from the future!
Dan: haha
Dan: in the future all whitespace is meaningful
Dan: maybe the next generation of strict constitutionalists will be python programmers and look at what the founding fathers meant in their use of whitespace
Me:

In order to maintain a well-formed Militia
     people should have guns

Me: Aha!
Me: Only in the context of the well-formed Militia block does that apply!
Me: Python wins again.
Dan: crazy: http://timhatch.com/projects/pybraces/
Me: Someone could probably write a pretty solid one.
Dan: just import it from the future and it will already have been done
Me: Haha. I should use that more often.
Dan: heh, it’s like that part at the end of bill & ted 2 where they say they traveled back in time in the future to plant the key, etc..
Me: Heh, I don’t remember as much of Bill and Ted 2 as you.
Dan: maybe that’s the next big thing after agile, programming 4th dimensionally
Dan: i saw that movie way too many times
Me: Space-oriented, future methodology is where it’a at.
Me: In the future.
Me: Bill and Ted? Or Back to the Future?
Dan: both

Me: Yeah!
Me: It’s why Jesus had a six pack.
Katt: uhhhhh no he didn’t
Me: Oh, dag. That makes Christianity less appealing than I thought.
Katt: don’t even think about buddhism. that guy ain’t in shape at all
Katt: but at least he’s cool with it
Me: For a guy who’s all “life is suffering” he doesn’t look like he’s suffering too badly at all!

Later:

Me: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/04/boris-vallejos-total.html
Katt: whoa!

In lieu of actually writing something, here’s some conversations I had earlier in the day, with accompanying cheap Photoshoppery.
 

Conversation #1:

Me: Maybe we should go to the Public Garden this weekend! I hear there’s ducks.

Katt: like the one what got stolen?

Me: Yes! It was found, though.

Katt: whoa! high five!

Me: I didn’t find it, but yeah! I’ll take a five!

Katt: ooh, that’d be extra great if you did find it

Me: I’d hold it up over my head! Doo-doo-do-dooo!

Me: “You found a lost duck!”

Katt: link, coming to save the duck!

Me: Zelda: Lost Ducks.

Katt: The Legend of Duck

Me: I’d play it.

Katt: me too

 
Actually, I think that’s enough for today. I need to go to bed.

So, I got a DS the other day, and I think it’s the platform with the most games that work for me. I’m swimming in non-bloated games with crisp game design right now. I’d rather these games be made for the Wii (or any console, really), even if they don’t take much advantage of it technically, but hey, at least they’re being made.

Just now, I was just playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, then had the following conversation with my friend Tim:
 

Me: I enjoy having a hammer on X and a sword on Y in Castlevania.
‘Cause it’s like SWORD! then HAMMER! on those skeletons!

Tim: In which one?

Me: Ecclesia. But probably any of them.

Tim: It’s especially important in Ecclesia since enemies have significant strengths and weakness vs. weapon types.

Me: Yeah, I notice the squishy things aren’t susceptible to hammering.
Hey, is there a sickle in that game?

Tim: yeah

Me: AW HELL YEAH!

Tim: There’s a lot of crusteaceans in the game, so sickles are good.

Me: Delicious.

It’d be great if you could wear a Soviet Union flag as a cape in the game, but being able to use a hammer and sickle is good enough.

I think the hammer and sickle is one of the greatest national weapons of all time.

I imagine the US’s national weapon is the handgun, which is effective but boring, whereas the nations formed between 900 and 1800 probably all picked some sort of sword as their official national weapons. Except perhaps Okinawa, which may have picked the nunchaku. I bet Australia favors the boomerang, which is both interesting and not cool.

But the hammer and sickle stands out, not just for its originality but for its perfection as a symbol. As weapons, the hammer and sickle are bizarre and unwieldy but also threatening- and brutal-looking. That was what the Soviet Union was all about.

In closing, here’s the Soviet National Anthem (what I consider to be the greatest national anthem of all time, as I’m 70% sure you’ve heard me say before) courtesy of Russian Anthems Museum.

So, after all of McCain’s stunts, there were no surprises. Neither side crushed (at least from the measure of moving the polls, not from the measure of correctness), but oddly, McCain gave the longer-winded answers. Obama nailed McCain on Iran, Spain, and taxes. McCain looked tetchy and smirked a lot (which supposedly lost Gore his debates) probably held on, in the eyes of undecided independents. Tim summed up well what helped him:

‘The problem with this debate is that there’s way too much “There’s Big Scary Stuff out there that’s gonna get you!”

And any time that feeling is established, simplistic conservative talking points play better.’

So, yeah, I can’t say who “won.”

Update: EDS thinks McCain won. I can kinda see that, but what I’ve realized is that I have no idea what criteria these people who are still undecided are using to judge debates and candidate worthiness. Here’s some of his thoughts on the debate:

EDS

Hey, here’s some good news: I think I’m the only person who thought McCain easily won that debate!

Me

The Corner at the National Review also thinks that.

EDS

Well, they probably don’t count.

Me

The problem with figuring out who won the debates is that I can never figure out exactly what is going to play and what isn’t.

EDS

All those undecideds on CBS thought Obama won, which I thought would’ve gone exactly the other way.
 
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Dan:
hey, don’t worry, the fundamentals are strong
Me:
You know, we have, like, good workers and stuff.
Me:
So, everything’s cool.
Dan:
unless you’re saying you hate the workers, that is
Dan:
i wonder how many people will actually be fooled by that
Me:
Yeah, so if the “fundamentals” of the economy were bad, McCain would say, “Hey, our workers are bad.”
Me:
Heh, there’s no way in hell he’d every say that, so the “fundamentals” of the economy are always going to be good.
Me:
In fact, the workers were good in the Great Depression.

A discussion from earlier today:

Dan:
yes!
Dan:
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/08/now_whos_effete.html
Me:
That is awesome!
Me:
After first, I just thought, hey, that’s good.
Me:
But then I reread and saw that it was Obama saying that.
Dan:
yeah, jumping on it right away
Me:
‘Atrios on Obama’s brand new ad about McCain’s house counting problems:
“I think it’s more than 7, but I guess it depends on how you count. I suppose it’ll be okay if Factcheck or similar calls Obama’s ad false like this:
The Obama campaign falsely claimed that John McCain owns 7 homes. In fact, he owns 12.”‘
Me:
That would rule.
Dan:
i’ve seen 4 blogs pick up on this already, hopefully it becomes a big issue
Dan:
also:
Dan:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said at a news conference the two countries have agreed that timetables should be set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Me:
Heh, not even Bush is on McCain’s side anymore.
Dan:
mccain’s probable response: “Surge, surge, surge, surge!!!!”
Dan:
there should be a bet in vegas on if Rudy will say “9/11″ more times than McCain will say “Surge” at the convention
Me:
He’s probably going to call the White House and be all, “WTF guys? I thought we were on the same team?”
Me:
I’d put the money on Rudy.
Dan:
heh, check out the mccain response:
Dan:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_campaign_response_obama.php
Dan:
it’s like they have some sort of talking points perl script that just strings together buzz words
Me:
Man, just continuing on and on with the outright lies in that last paragraph.
Dan:
./generate-talking-points.pl --with-extra-lies

Undoubtedly, there’s a cron job like that running daily on the GOP’s Ronald Reagan Memorial Server. You know it.