XIG The Four Elements
XIG The Four Elements is an award-winning puzzle game with actual puzzle pieces, as opposed to the game being a conundrum.
XIG The Four Elements is an award-winning puzzle game with actual puzzle pieces, as opposed to the game being a conundrum.
Some time ago, without notice to me, Berta unsubscribed to all of our magazines.
It has taken a while for them all to run out, so we still receive the occasional issue with one of those “This is your last issue” card stock covers, but for the most part, we just don’t get any magazines in the mail these days. I was curious what I’ve been missing, and then I got to thinking about whether I really need the dead tree editions of what information I can probably find online.
One of the bigger offenders lately is Wired. I’ve been a subscriber to Wired Magazine since the first issue, and I’ve always found their articles interesting and timely — until lately.
Still, they’re well on top of the curve, but with the internet I’m so connected into the ideas they publish that I’ll hear about them weeks before I receive their magazine. I used to look forward to their Fetish section, showing the latest gadgets, but they haven’t published anything over the past year that I didn’t already know about. Recent articles are all starting to have this distinctly leftist tilt that unnerves me in what I had previously considered a source of news, even if I tend to agree with the specific ideals that they promote.
You can get a continuous stream of great new product announcments from Engadget (leaning: pleasant and informative) or Gizmodo (leaning: snarky and staccato). The rest of the featured articles eventually show up on Wired Magazine’s own web site! So why subscribe at all?
If I can do without Wired, which is the first magazine I thought I might not be able to do without, then what about some of these others?
You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
I’ve been reading a book whose main characters place a significant emphasis on pursuit of knowledge. They accept scolding from physical laborers in high standing in the community for being layabouts, never contributing anything to society but sales of their books, a pleasure for simpleminded women.
And while I’m not in agreement with this attitude, I’m also not sympathetic to the attitude of the main characters, whose silent conceit in their intellectual superiority is superbly annoying.
Our house has been on the market since Friday, but we did not schedule it for showings until Monday. Over the weekend, Jean called and left a message concerning an interested party from out of town that wanted to see our house on Sunday. We rushed through our preparations and vacated, beginning the tedious process that this week has become.
Because we had to cut short our preparations on Sunday, we never really got to complete them. We’ve had showings of the house every night since then, so there hasn’t been any reprieve. As an example of the trouble this is causing, our air conditioner filter once again requires cleaning, since it has gotten to the point that the air is no longer cooled. This being another hot week, everyone seeing the house will now have to do so in 80+ degree temperatures.
Really, all that is required to fix the problem is cleaning the fliter, which I did last night. But with the house already so hot, it’ll take a while for it to cool off today after putting the dried filters back into the system this morning. And then the A/C service guy is supposed to come to service the thing this afternoon, so it’ll be shut down again. And I’m sure that he’ll cost us another hundred dollars or so.