Monthly Archives: March 2009

Mini Review: Halo Wars

I downloaded and played the Demo of Halo Wars, the new RTS game placed in the Halo universe. I really liked what I saw, and enjoyed playing Skirmishes with the computer opponents.

So I rented the full game when it came out, and I couldn’t even finish the campaign. There are a couple of

Running

In junior high and high school I had a gym teacher who demanded that we run for miles with essentially no guidance on form, how to train properly for running distance, or how to stay hydrated. She was constantly annoyed with me because I couldn’t breath well while running and because my knees started

The Housing Crisis

The more I read about the housing crisis and the eventual collapse of the financial markets, the less faith I have in our masters of the universe.

The newest bits of my reading are around the failure of the credit rating agencies like Moodys and S&P to assess risk because of market pressures. First read

Bobby Jindal’s Exorcism

Recently Bobby Jindal got thrust into the national spotlight to offer the republican rebuttal to the president’s state of the union.

Jindal caught a lot of crap for his just outright awful public speaking skills, and as the days crept on, lots of people wanted to get an idea of who this Jindal character is.

Well, turns