Peggle

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I rarely plug any games here, but since I accidentially stumbled on a good one, I thought I would pass it along with a warning to never never play it.  I mean it, never ever click on the Popcap website and think “I have 10 minutes to spare, why not play a little Peggle?”  To do so is to fall into a pit of candy-coloured time sink-ing fun.  This game is a brightly coloured soother that I burbled and cooed over for an hour last night without meaning to.  It’s digital crack, a perfectly crafted thing, more of a fun toy than a game.  Don’t touch it, I mean it.

So, once you have ignored my warning and fall into a hole in the space-time continuum, don’t come crawling to me, ok?  I’m busy trying to get this level finished off…

Wikipedia says Peggle was named one of the “5 Most Addictive Video Games of All Time”…. Wikipedia never lies, so don’t click it.

Punishment

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It’s the purest irony that our bodies work the way they do.  After a period of sloth, abuse and excess, any exercise is rewarded with a couple of days of extremely sore muscles and pain.  If I had just kept working out and pushing my body towards some diminishing end point of “fitness” before the summer began, I would feel great right now.  I similarly felt pretty good before I started working out again, although I definitely didn’t look all that good.  Rather pasty, pudgy and perspire-ey actually.  So, there you go.  Our bodies punish us whenever we change states.  Stop exercising, become Jabba the Hut.  Start exercising, become Whiny McScreamsalot.

Where’s my exercise pill?  I’d probably need to eat them from a bowl like cereal at this point….

PropertyPlus.ca

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Unsolicited ad copy for PropertyPlus.ca:

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Then you must be thinking of buying or selling a home…

The next time you are buying or selling a house, you owe it to yourself to head on over to PropertyPlus.ca and save yourself some money that would otherwise go to some slick smarmy real estate agent to use for his BMW lease, or for his hair gel.

It doesn’t cost a cent to just list your home on the website, but then you wouldn’t get a spiffy lawn sign for kids to kick/steal/egg/burn.

So come on down and get yourself some new digs!

 

Caveat:  I do not write advertising material for a living.  I think it shows.

Church of England Apologises to Darwin

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The Church of England is to issue a formal apology to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution almost 150 years ago.  I’m kind of impressed by this, actually.  It probably won’t help the radicals come to grips with their prejudice, but it’s a nice gesture that might help to push things back towards sanity.  Any shift in that direction, however slight, is a welcome change these days.

Opposition to evolutionary theories is still “a litmus test of faithfulness” for some Christian movements, the Church will admit. It will say that such attitudes owe much to a fear of perceived threats to Christianity.

Huh, ya think?

We have talked about the Church of England before.  They seem remarkably progressive for a church….

Happy Birthday Court!

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Hey there honey…look at me!  I’m actually posting.  Sometimes it just takes a very important occasion to get me off my butt to do it.

I would say your birthday is just such an occasion.  Definitely worthwhile making an effort to post.  And with that, I am here to say….

Happy Birthday Baby!

Here is a tribute to the many faces of Court we’ve all seen in about the last 10 years or so…Enjoy!

Love ya baby,

Nik