Greetings.

So, I'm looking for a game in the same vein as Myst: Clever puzzles and strategies with a fun storyline. Actually, the storyline doesn't even have to be that good, as long as the puzzles are. Any suggestions? Remember, I'm a Mac User, but don't worry about checking. I'll do that. You just pony up the good stuff.

Thanks in advance.

Mr. AoD (and everyone else), I'm sorry I took so long reading it. I'm not done yet, but I can't stop thinking about it. I watched the trailer again and now all the scenes just pop out at me. I hope this movie doesn't suck.

It seems like nowadays whenever people meet invariably this question will come up: "So do you have a blog?" Everyone has one. I used to think we here on the Homestarmy were special because we had this blog for more than 4 years. And I suppose we still are as I have never seen anyone else doing what we do. But the fact remains everyone seems to have a blog. Good for them.

I like blogs. It gives me a chance to keep in touch with people (mainly because I am rather anti-social). Some people are really funny. Others have really poignant and intelligent things to say. All of them keep me reading. I have added a new folder to our Handy Links section (on the right column of the site) called Radar's Endorsed Blogs. This contains links to all of the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Some you already read. Others will be new to you. But I put them up on our blog to encourage all of you to check them out (and comment on their posts as I know they all like that). I also encourage each of you to put up your own folders with readable blogs as I would be interested to read them. Look for me to feature some of them in the coming weeks.

Below is a list of all of my recommended blogs and a very brief intro about them:
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"UTAH MAN"

VERSE
I am a Utah man, sir, and I live across the green.
Our gang, it is the jolliest that you have ever seen.
Our coeds are the fairest and each one's a shining star.
Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far.

CHORUS
Who am I, sir? A Utah man am I A Utah man, sir, and will be till I die; Ki!Yi!
We're up to snuff; we never bluff,
We're game for any fuss,
No other gang of college men
dare meet us in the muss.
So fill your lungs and sing it out and
shout it to the sky,
We'll fight for dear old Crimson,
for a Utah man am I.

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Seriously. What the hell is wrong with some people? Seriously!!!!

Special thanks the ThRhett for the video.

From time to time some of my friends post something to their blog that I think is fantastic. I used to wonder how to tell other people about it. I thought that I could just copy the post verbatim and then be done with it, but that just doesn't seem right. So then I realized (I don't know why it took me this long) that I could just link to it. I think I am going to come up with a better way to share some of my friends blogs. Look to the near future for an addition.

This was Well Said!

[Ed: I will be cross-posting any of my blog.joeysmith.com posts that I think might have general appeal, until such a time as I discover a better method of syndicating the two blogs together.]

I picked up "The Name of the Wind" on the recommendation of Radar- when I first opened the book, I was gravely concerned - my experience has previously shown that the more glowing reviews a book got, the more likely it is that the book would not have sold without those reviews, and this book had no less than three full pages of raves. However, I went against my own judgement and have thus far been glad. If you decide to pick it up, do me this favor - stick with the story long enough to see Chronicler deal with highway robbery. If you still don't like it by that point, at least I won't be able to say you didn't give it a fair shake.

So, Ancient of Days told me a while back I should try coLinux rather than struggling with a dual boot, VMWare, or KVM solution to that age old problem: How do I run Linux and Windows on the same desk?

I've struggled for a week now trying to get coLinux to do what I wanted. I didn't have a lot of time until today, when I was assigned a new PHP project to work on. Seeing that I now had the needed justification for investing time into this technology, I set about trying to read through the documentation.

To my surprise, I found that several people were packaging "out of the box" solutions that installed a windows manager and a bunch of commonly used applications - and they use Ubuntu Linux as their distro. I ended up going with andLinux since it was available from sourceforge. I installed it and after a quick reboot, it started working like magic.
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I saw this and thought that all of you parents needed to see this; either as a reminder or something to look forward to.

Hey Paul, my butt hurts. Is that a traffic problem?

So I had a friend of mine recommend a book a to a month or so ago that I was excited to read. The first book she lent me was what I consider a sad failure since I had been so excited to read it and it ended up being a flop in my opinion. I don't blame her for the book sucking so much at all. Her second recommendation, and book lendation also had great promise. Sadly it didn't fare much better. The book was called The Diaries of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain.

Mark Twain is and should be considered a classic author and personality in every sense of those words. I, like many of you, read Huck Finn in high school and really enjoyed it. It managed to keep me quite interested even as a freshman who hated his English class. He even managed to make his way to a two part episode of Star Trek the Next Generation that was fantastic. However, this book was not.

I am sure that back in the day this was probably quite fresh and funny. To me it seemed like he wasn't really trying. The humor was flat and contrived. Very predictable. I will be honest and say that I was expecting more than what I got. I don't think my friend built it up too much, I just expected Twain to be better than he was. If any of you have read this, then I would be happy to accept dissenting views. As for me, I just could not in good conscience continue reading nor recommend it to anyone else.

You have now been "Literized."

I know most of you already get Quote of the Day, but I really liked this one.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- HL Mencken

An acquaintance of mine is looking for a webprogrammer to help him get his pet project up and running.

It's a golf management system (that's all I'm at liberty to say at the moment.) If you're interested, I'll fwd your info to him and he'll be in touch. He's the CFO of a well established construction company and is quite responsible.

What the crap is Birdwood, NE?

Dr. Horrible is once again available for free viewing via Hulu.

Well, I recently spent a lot of time sleeping and dozing, but in between all that excitement I managed to squeeze in a viewing of the Prequel of all Prequels. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. It's been a little over nine years since its theatrical release and the prequel experiment as a whole has been widely panned (especially by me.) I thought I'd write up a few of my thoughts now that I'm a little older and have been exposed to the true spiritual sequel to Star Wars (the Firefly/Serenity franchise.)
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