Archive for May, 2005

Finals week

I’m sorry. My posts have been less than regular lately. Tuesday begins finals week at school, so chances are, I’m not going to get much more posting in until Friday at the earliest. You can expect a return to normal crazyness after that.

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Consoles

It’s official, next year’s big three will be the Sony Playstation 3, Microsft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Revolution. All of them putting on their shows at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo, for you non-gamer types). So I’m going to break them down by analyzing the consoles hardware, style, and appeal factors. I’m also going to be [...]

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Joy

My sister-in-law, Joy, came to visit today. She’s going to be staying through Wednesday. If I don’t have any major updates then you can blame her , but if I do update, then you can ignore this message.
I’m also probably going to be going to Florida for a month or so starting in June. [...]

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Time traveler convention update

The time traveler convention was yesterday, and from the site:

The convention was a success! Unfortunately, we had no confirmed time travelers visit us.

To anybody who would have thought of this it would be obvious why the convention had no time travelers, because time travel to the past is never invented. This can be obvious for [...]

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Video games make you smarter

Wired has an article called “Dome Improvement” which explores the increasing trend of industrialized nations to have rising IQ scores.
The article explores the idea and ultimately came to the conclusion that any genius probably already knew: video games, TV, and the internet make you smarter.
The interesting side-effect of this is that standardized test scores are [...]

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Time traveler convention

Alright, so some guys at MIT have a great idea, make a convention for time travelers, publicize it, and sometime in the future when time travel is invented, everybody will come back in time and attend the convention.
The strange part about this is that it could theoreticaly work. Time travel might be possible, and if [...]

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