Meanwhile, in the universe next door

San Francisco 49ers: 45
Pittsburgh Steelers: 28

My 49ers win the Superbowl! Game MVP was running back Drew Hasty, who piled up 201 yards rushing and 4 touchdowns. Great animation when you do this.. confetti everywhere, fireworks going off over Joe Robbie Stadium, my head coach getting a Gatorade bath, and finally, everyone hoisting the Vince Lombardy Trophy.

Ran the team through the off-season stuff. Did very well in free agency and the draft. Now I'm going to take a break from Madden and learn MLB 07 The Show.

Expect a new icon for that soon.

Writer's Block: Desert island

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1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder. Through this book I came to look at history not as a series of events, but the people and actions that led to those events. World War II started when Adolf Hitler couldn't get into art school in Vienna. I often look around at crowds in a mall or at traffic at a stop light and think "and what paths brought all of you to be here, now?"

2. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Half ripping yarn and half treatise on the ethics and philosophy of the military. Reading World War II histories made me want to be a soldier. Reading Starship Troopers made me understand why I should be one.

3. Traveller, Book 1: Characters and Combat, Book 2: Starships, Book 3: Worlds and Adventures by Marc Miller, et al. To say these books influenced and changed my life would be a gross understatement. :)

Samuel L. Ipsum

You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for murder. After the avalanche, it took us a week to climb out. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other, but I know that seven of us survived the slide... and only five made it out. Now we took an oath, that I'm breaking now. We said we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two, but it wasn't. Nature is lethal but it doesn't hold a candle to man.

Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb.



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