The event I miss most from the Olympics, Summer AND Winter, is the Medal Race.  There are no more competitors for the biggest and most entertaining aspect of the Great Games.  I blame Ronald Reagan.  I think destroying the Olympic Games should be given to his credit.  After all, it was he who single-handedly tore down the Iron Curtain and destroyed communism in the former USSR.  Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Olympics lost their appeal in the medal grab.  The competitive spark is now relegated to individual events depending on their relative popularity with the viewing public.  Without that political tension, it might as well be a Saturday afternoon at your favorite Pee-Wee sporting event in your community center.

The political homogenization of the games is nearly complete.  It’s almost pointless to even mention the competitor’s country of origin, because quite often they train elsewhere with coaches from leading countries in the cold-war era.  Even the judged competitions (regardless of not being a sport to begin with) have been generified to the point where we don’t even see the individual judge’s scores, just the composite.  Mark off another potential rival.  Even American Idol knows you have to hate somebody.  How boring would it be if Randy, Simon and (formerly) Paula just sat silently while an announcer, or electronic scoreboard gave the results of the audition.  So now all the competition comes down to people we never heard of, with some oblique reference to a country they “represent” moderated by anonymous judges.

Without a rivalry the Olympics are boring, thanks a lot Ron.

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Matthew London

810-395-2363
E-mail: mythew@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE
To aquire a position in a powerful Global company, insidiously worm my way up the ranks to a position of power, usurp the current leadership and use the company powerbase to take over the world.

WORK EXPERIENCE
Mad Man
6/2000 – Present
Self Employed | Mi
Various attempts at world domination. Insdious plots involving mechanical, chemical, psycological, and just plain weird means. Attempts to raise the dead that have only been sucessfull on Computers. Most recent experiments involve computer technoligy baised on differing power sources, including steam, Nuclear, Darwinian, Murphian, Schlits Malt Liquier-ian, and the ever popular Bungie. COmputer Mod Specialist in Ireverant and unexpected designs. Mad, they called me mad, Insane, Wendle! But I shall show them, SHow them ALL!!!!

Invasion Spearhead
3/1998 – 9/1998
Noltar and the Minions of planet Lagnos | Planet Langos
Conspring against my own, Deception of the public, Infiltration of society, Intigration of Alien beings into the populace of the planet for emminent invasion and take over. Unfortunate Alien alergic reaction to Hostess Twinkies foiled plot.

Prototype Testing
5/2000 – 12/1997
Things Man Was Not Ment To Know Inc. | Mi
Testing of Temporal Convaence devices in Prototype stage. Testing was successfull.

Weilder, Assembler, and Maintenance
3/1995 – 10/1997
The Laboritories of Mad Dr. BoBo and his singing toupe’ | Michigan
Assisted in the construction of giant robots that where to be bent on the destruction of all man kind. However, due to a design flaw in the elctro-kenetic brain, robots sat around in rocking chairs complaining about how their diodes ached, and how it was better “back in the old days”.

Aquisitions and Disposal
6/1993 – 12/1994
Prof. Harold Rocklinfade | Mi
Procuring freasly burried corpses for Prof. Rocklinfades “Ghastly Experiments” from local pet cemmetaries, animal hospitals, veteranary clinics, county pound, and elementary school class rooms. ALso responcable for the disposal of unsucseffull experiments in Bog behind the Mansion.

Assistant Sludge Monster Wrangler
7/1990 – 6/1991

Blodget Chemical Corporation | Mi
Detention and destruction of Sludge creatures created by careless disposal of toxic chemicals that had been accidentaly mixed together. Also resposable for hunting and capturing any creatures that had broken loose from holding pen “On pain of death”.

EDUCATION
Associate Degree,
3/1993
St. Clair COunty COmmunity Colledge for the insane | State:MI
Assc. of Arts and Inhumanities. Subprogram in Mad Science and Alternate “Goofy” physics
High School or equivalent,
6/1990
Capac High School for the insane | Capac, MI

SKILLS

A+ Intermediate
Denile of Reality Expert
Creative Problem Creating Expert
Anoy total strangers in under ten seconds Expert

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So there is this article about Windows 7. It goes on at length about the naming process for the Windows line. Then there is the follow up article, that is the explanation for the naming scheme. Now all I can think of is the Animaniacs singing about Windows Versions.

FIIIIIRRRRSSSSST There was Dos,
That Bill Gates bought
really a steal,
or so we though

Then Apple’s “Lisa”
Showed us a mouse
and soon after
Windows one came out

But it was just and overlay
’cause DOS still ran everything anyway.
And so it was with Windows 3
and 3.11 respectively.

Then came Windows 95 and we all thought that to survive
We must upgrade immediately or we’ll be left behind the scene.
And so we all clambered aboard and purchased Windows number 4
Only to find that right behind would be Windows 98.

Nine-teee-eight!
Oh how we thought that that was great.
Windows Nine-teee-Eight!
We thought it was divine!

But there were bugs and Billy thought
Lets march a new release on out
and so “SE” became the norm
with patches flying like a storm.

The internet was the new big thing
and IE 4 had us on a string,
Outlook express kept our email
And everything seemed good and well.

But Bill would not settle for millions and millions
He really wanted trillion billions
so two os’s came the same year,
but with different names.

We watched the trick of ME with surprise
as it crashed and crumbled before our eyes
But 2000 seemed rather stable and stayed alive,
So they called it Windows 5!

Then came XP! “Just a point release” or so they say,
Win-dows EEECKS-PEEEE! Really saved Old Billy’s day.
We’ll make More MonEEYY! If we put two versions out,
One for work and one for Home!

And so this OS ran and ran
everything working according to plan
but the longevity of the silly thing
screwed up Bills releasing scheme
For Another OS to take it’s place
and boost profits into outer space.

So Bill killed XP, he pulled the plug
and rolled out Windows Vista.
No one knew that Windows 6
would go right down the Shitstah!

Now all eyes look forward to going back
to all that vista seemed to lack
And we can Only hope that Windows 7
Is not “MS Bob Centennial Edition!”

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I guess it’s about time I added this to the buffer. For a little over a year now I’ve been playing an RPG with my kids and their friends called Holy Lands. We are playing the ‘Light Edition’ of the game, which I believe, is still freely available as a download from the publisher. The ‘Light Edition’ is a revised set of rules from the Second Edition rules. This is to give you a taste of what is to come within the 3rd Edition currently in production. The main attraction to playing this RPG opposed to the plethora of well-known secular games is the fact that this game system is Christian based, not to mention it’s currently free. I’m sure there are many that would turn their nose up at such a prospect to Role Play as a Christian. Without climbing up on my religious soap-box, I’ll just say don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. For me, the leap to Christian Role Play was not a hard one. Many of my characters throughout my Role Playing career have taken whats easily called the “Moral High Road”.

The backdrop for Holy Lands is the Dark Ages, a period of history where the lines between fact and myth are blurred. This is the same time period that gave life to the Arthurian Legend and the epic poem Beowulf. The game is populated with a full compliment of monsters, demons and a sundry of pagans or devil worshiping humans. (more…)

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Take away everything that makes computerized strategy games fun and interesting, and you have Tribal Wars. Need I say more? Probably not, but a single sentence hardly qualifies as a decent post. Even with the lack of graphical eye-candy and redundant one-liners, Tribal Wars continues to hold my interest. Why? I don’t know for sure, but I think I might be a ‘level up’ junkie. Something compels me to go one more level, to get the next upgrade, to build the next building. I just have to know what makes the next level so desirable. By and large, I’ve been disappointed not so much in my performance but the lack of satisfaction in achieving my goal, so then I set another one, and another one, and so it has been going for the last month or so. I one point, I almost deleted my account. In fact I had put in the request, but it doesn’t happen instantly, and in three or four days, I was logging back in and it asked me if I really wanted to delete my account. The Junkie said ‘no’ .

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