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Just bought my children's tolerance for another year.

Just bought my children's tolerance for another year.  Just fought murderously overloaded ticketing systems to secure tickets to the  annoyingly popular boy band that I don't want to mention in case google starts giving me more g+ posts about in the what's hot feed.

Strange the trips Youtube can take you on.

Strange the trips Youtube can take you on.  After the Ebay password leak I was annoyed and changed a bunch of passwords.  After an hour of this I recalled a Chris Rock rant where he says "tired, tired, tired of this sh*t."  I wanted to find the context, but it turned out it was a clip that some people could be offended by, so I left it. It is hilarious, btw.  Anyway, that lead me to Dave Chapelle and I remembered his black klan character and I was so far off the passwords thing, watching Dave & Chris being awesome.  One of the clips linked was to this story about rascism, tolerance set in America.  While I deplore these staged experiments and I know they are deeply flawed, I still watched the whole thing.  I found it an excellent reminder of how good people can be, how ignorant others are, and how some just don't want to get involved.   Due to the editing, I'm pretty sure that many of the people shown came off in worse light than they should, but the people who ma

So Call of Duty games are on sale on Steam for the weekend.

So Call of Duty games are on sale on Steam for the weekend. Black Ops 2 (2012) discounted from $60 to $45 Black Ops (2010) discounted from $60 to $45 Ghost (2013) discounted from $60 to $40 When even the publisher thinks their latest game needs to be flogged cheaper than the older ones, tells you it can't be that good. #dinosaur