I was called into work last night. I don’t mind, it meant I got to spend my night running around a Bookstore trying to help people instead of wallowing on my couch telling myself that I was going to start cleaning my apartment in five minutes. The nice thing about coming in when you’re asked is that you get to set your own departure time — on the phone before I went in, I asked to leave at 9, and I actually made it out the door about 9:10.
About five minutes later, I was standing on the Farragut North Metro platform. It wasn’t as packed as it had been when I’d gotten in at 5:30ish, but there were still a lot of people waiting for a train. And it was late enough that trains were only running about once every twelve minutes. Or, well, let me specify: only trains carrying passengers were running every twelve minutes: one train, packed to the gills, followed by one dark train that continued through the tunnel.
Guess how long it took me to get home. (more…)
This is an awesome news story about the dangers of evil video games. It just so happens that the evil video game in question is, uh, Scrabble.
Tonya Carrington, 36, gave her son Ethan the Nintendo version of the much-loved word game, enabling him to pit his wits against ‘virtual’ characters.
But she was horrified to discover that the computer-generated players were laying down words containing crude slang and abuse.
Any doubt was removed when the next word the computer offered was ‘f*ckers’, which it defined as ‘a slang word for chavs’.
My first thought is that I want to run out right now and buy a Nintendo DS and a game of Scrabble for it (I won’t, because that’d be my grocery bill through March, probably).
My second thought is, what the hell is a ‘chav’? (Wikipedia defines a chav as: “The stereotypical image of a chav is an aggressive white teen or young adult, of working class background, who wears branded sports and casual clothing (baseball caps are also common) who often fights and engages in petty criminality and are often assumed to be unemployed or in a low paid job.”)
