My unobjective review of Ikaruga

My opining on Ikur

Obsessed with Twitter right now…

Please excuse the lack of substantial updates right now I’m somewhat obsessed with Twitter right now, if you look over there to your right you’ll see the RSS feed for my twitter site or you can click here and look at it. Behold the mediocrity of the minutiae of my life!

On to actual news – with the job at the Capitol and the move into peak legislation season DMS will most likely only receive substantial meaty posts on weekends. During the week between work and my life there just isn’t time to sit down and write a good post. Oh, my review of Ikuraga should go up this week over at Gamestooge.

This is how I spent my day today:

My review is up! It’s Over at The Growing Life

The review of Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational is back up! Just follow the link on over to my friend, Clay Collins site take a poke around when your done reading it.

If you’re just coming here from The Growing Life, poke around here too! DMS is all over the place but it tends to focus on book and game reviews, with some of my own personal writings throughout.

Thanks for stopping by.

Just took down my review of Predictably Irrational

Look for it to appear on another site as a guest posting, I’ll post the link when I get it.

Just finished reading Wired 16.05

There’s an article in the latest issue of Wired called Peak Water (Link incoming, their sure to post it within the week) reminded me that I have sitting around Mark Reisner’s prescient book, Cadillac Desert, which 15 years ago painted the bleak picture were now starting to see.  If you want to make millions in the coming years and are a cynic get a law degree and specialize in water rights. Cities, counties, states, and nations are going to be fighting over water more and more in the foreseeable future…

Help from my readers

With me working at the Capitol from 9 to 5 weekdays now, I’m finding it hard at times to work on DMS (Di Mortui Sunt). That being the reason my once a day posting has dwindled to a once every 2 weeks or so, I’ve looked into Tumblr and Twitter as ways to post from my cell phone while at work, just small snippets maybe about what is going on at work or a grainy picture of a piece of Capitol history. Tumblr seemed perfect for this and I’ve set up a Tumblog (is that what they’re called?) My problem is that I don’t know enough about WordPress, CSS, HTML, or web design in general to get my Tumblr posts to appear here.

So I’m asking my readers if any of them happen to know anything about such things and if they’d be willing to help me tweak the back end of this site (which is the bare bones simple stuff WordPress gives you)? I just want to make it so that whatever I send to my Tumblr site via phone or IM gets put up here?

All replies appreciated!

A short review of the Pope’s book, Jesus of Nazareth

Now seems like an apt time to talk about my reading of Pope Benedict the XVI book, Jesus of Nazareth, considering he is in the middle of a historic visit to the USA. The best that can be said about it is that it’s short. It could be shorter, there really shouldn’t be so much to say about a carpenter who lived in the first century AD, and who either fancied himself a demi-god or happened to have the right group of friends who fancied him to be. If you’ve walked through your local bookstores religions section though you’ll notice a great deal of thick books expounded on Jesus’ remarkable role in the history of the world, they’re also usually full of greek and latin words. These are the types of books that look good on a bookshelf. I suspect though that if Jesus’ message was so simple and clear you wouldn’t need several 1000 pages to explain to someone. But anyway back to the Pope’s book

It’s all right I guess, I’ve been told by numerous sources (New York Times, Washington Post, etc…) that Benny is one smart guy, he was John Paul’s head theologian. The man can certainly string an argument together and he does, but it always falls apart when we get to of Jesus. Which is the problem with Christianity (or Islam, or Mormonism) Benedict really wants us to believe that Jesus is God, and he holds up the Bible, and the fuzzy feeling he and millions of others get when they think about him as justification for his beliefs. This doesn’t work for me, because Scientologists get the same fuzzy feeling from reading Dianetics and thinking about L. Ron Hubbard, and I know at least two guys who get it when thinking about Playboy magazine. Perhaps I’m missing something, but I can’t see why the age of the Bible and the number of its followers should separate it from the weirdos in the latter two groups.  The Judeo-Christian God isn’t any more legitimate than the Flying Spaghetti Monster or He-Man, he just happens to be followed by a hell of a lot more people. Which brings us to the ultimate problem I have with Jesus of Nazareth, I don’t have any faith. I can follow the Pope’s arguments up until he makes the leap that leaves logic behind and goes head-long into faith…

I could also mention the Pope’s tired argument that if everyone just believed as he did all our problems would go away. If we all just scurried back to the 12th century where the Catholic church controlled their lives but also their thoughts. I’m sorry I don’t believe a sincere belief in Jesus as the Savior of the World and the Catholic Church as his instrument here on earth would stop people from finding reasons to hate and kill each other. In fact the history of western civilization only confirms my belief.

Earth Hour

Diana and I did Earth Hour last Sunday, like many others did (I hope). We turned off all the lights, unplugged all of our power strips and lighted several candles throughout the house.  For an hour we sat at her table playing cards and talking. It was a wonderful experience! It brought the two of us closer to each other and the thousands of others who participated that day/night. Talking about it afterwards we thought it would be nice to do on a regular basis, maybe once a week. We aren’t religious people but I feel we are spiritual and at the moment we don’t have an outlet for that emotion, we felt that we could turn Earth Hour into a time to share with each other, our neighbors and our greater community, the plants, animals, soil, that surround us and which we spend so little of our time thinking about or recognizing. Taking an hour out of our busy schedule to reflect on this, while giving a little back just seems right to us.