The Game Has Passed Me By

I used to play EA's NCAA Football games, probably too much. When I was finishing seminary, all by myself at Berea Lutheran Church in north St. Louis, I played it a lot. When I was living in The Bachelor Pad, my roommates and I had a league. I used to be really good at it. For some reason, I stopped playing it at about NCAA06. I'm not sure why.

Back in September, I picked up NCAA10. Again, I'm not sure why.

The game is way too hard for me. I completely stink at it in every way. It has gotten even more complicated and I simply don't know enough about football, and there are too many new features to digest at the same time. I can't play on a high level. I even stink at the lowest level. Thankfully, they have cheats you can turn on to make it even easier. I have to play with the settings making eat as easy as humanly possible to win.

It is sad. Brett Favre can still play real football; am I too old to play NCAA on Xbox? Horrible.

It looks incredible in HD, though.

Another Reason Why I Hate Wikipedia

Wikipedia stinks for many and various reasons, although it does have its uses for those who realize its limitations.

So I am wondering about Moldova (don't ask why I am wondering about Moldova during Holy Week when I have a zillion other things to do, but I was) so I decide to check out the Wikipedia page for Moldova.

In pretty much anything that has anything to do with a foreign country, there is always some joker who goes through and changes everything to the foreign way of spelling it, and justifies it by saying it's the "right" way.

For example, Chişinău is the capital. The CIA World Factbook, as well as the website of the Moldovan Embassy in the United States and the official English-language Moldovan government website, spell it Chisinau. But some jerkface has to go through and add all the little marks all over.

Note to foreigners: the English Wikipedia should be in English. I don't go through the Moldovan wikipedia's five or six pages and change every American place name to the English spelling, do I?

Some Polish dude did the same thing to the Casimir Pulaski page. We have a stinking holiday named after him! He's an important dude in our history! That is how we spell it in English! Leave us alone!

Why I Am a Facebook Luddite.

I had lunch with a friend of mine yesterday and he was talking about Facebook. Bah.

Facebook stinks.

The truth is, I have no real reason to be anti-Facebook. I have been a computer nerd from way back. Email, AIM, IRC; I was chatting on a BSS on dial-up 300 baud modems for crying out Pete. Why am I such a Facebook hater?

"But I have gotten in touch with so many people I went to (elementary/high school/college) with!"

If they are so great, why did you lose touch with them in the first place?

People used to call their friends or write letters. Then we got email. Email was awesome. Now, these people check Facebook to see if someone sent them a message. They can set it send an email to them when they have a message from someone. That's like having the post office send you a postcard to come pick up a letter that somebody sent you.

I will probably end up doing it. I realize this. This is probably one of the other reasons I am so opposed to it, because I know I will give in, just like I did with the mobile phone.

Bah.