Archive for October, 2006



Free Online Simulation Games

(Update: Of these games, I am only currently playing AstroEmpires.)
Anything that is free is good. Well, that’s not entirely true. A lot of free things really suck, including online games, so I thought I would post about a few of the online simulation games that I have enjoyed. With these kinds of [...]

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been receiving letters from Washington Mutual (WaMu) saying that my new credit card is “on its way.” I have found this to be rather strange, because I used to have a Providian card and they were bought by or merged with WaMu, so earlier this year I [...]

Children’s Books And Propaganda

I visited the local library a week or so ago and I was surprised at some of the books I saw. For instance, in the children’s section there was a book about rape. I would hope that’s a topic that a young child doesn’t need to know about and, when s/he is older, [...]

Seeing as how I am on my way toward becoming an English teacher, I thought I would lay out a few of the still-far-too-common mistakes I see in writing. With the rise of the blog, less reviewing of articles happening, more simple errors are making it online. Fortunately, OSX has built-in spellchecking, the [...]