This year's Super Bowl was a huge disappointment. I mean, there was not a single decent commercial. The only - ONLY! - good thing to come out of it was Tom Petty's half-time show.

...towards men. I mean, just look at the way men
are portrayed in video games. In America, they are always "tough
guys" with attitudes. They have a hair trigger. When they speak, if they
speak at all, it's always some deep, manly drawl. It's almost as if they all had
their parents murdered in front of them during childhood. It's appalling. You
never see women portrayed like this. Even the most "masculine" of
female characters has breasts the size of cantaloupes and clothes that come
right out of the Kleenex company catalogue. Y'know, how women are supposed to
dress. Moving along, I'm tired of men constantly being portrayed as angry tough
guys in video games. I move for more realistic male characters, as we see in
Francis from Super Paper Mario and Makoto from School Days. These are all very
realistic male leads that more games should try to emulate. I say we end the
sexual stereotypes that male leads are subject to and afterwards stare at women
in short-shorts.

Fig 10.23b: Not sexual stereotyping.

As you may have already realized, classes have started once more, so my posting schedule has changed from a semi-daily, early morning schedule to a whenever-the-hell-I-have-time schedule. As a result, there will possibly be a loss of quality in the transition. Thank you all, loyal readers, for sticking with me thus far.

Also of note: it would seem that I have collected over one-thousand xanga "credits". It seems all they are good for is the issuance of so-called xanga "minis". Upon further research, there is a certain "mini" worth an astounding one-thousand credits. I'm thinking of either hording my credits for whenever they become worth something, or just blow them on somebody worthy. If you think you may be worthy for the "Mini" of Awesome-ness, drop me an essay explaining why. Better yet, write me a three-page essay regarding global free trade. Single spaced, a minimum of five sources listed in MLA style, and size-12 Times New Roman font. It's due next week Sunday. Thanks.

I think I am going to try and earn a Biggest A~~hole Award in the category of driving. I already have several bad driving habits that I think I can hone to perfection, so this one should be easy. Here is a list of some of the things I do to others while on the road.

Do not allow passes on the right - I'm a frequent left lane driver. Usually, this is because I drive faster than most of the cars on the road, but sometimes there is somebody going faster that decides to pass me on the right. I can't have that. When I see somebody coming up to pass me on the right, I, naturally, speed up. Nobody passes me.

Do not allow lane change without signal - I try to enforce this one as much as possible. If I see a car inching over to another lane, I will force myself just a little bit next to him so that he can't pull in then I match his speed. This generally causes the other driver to bob and alter speed occasionally, but I keep up. Most eventually hit their blinker, and if I'm in a good mood I let them in. A bad mood would result in me just accelerating and passing by him.

Tailgate – I tailgate. That is all. Speed up, slug heads.

The high-beam flash – This is more or less my subtle horn. I rarely use my horn to alert people, but the high-beams are great. Whether I'm letting you know that you've left your blinker on or that you are driving a mere five over the limit, I'm going to flash my high-beams at you. I can attest that this method of communication is very effective.

There are more, but that's all I feel like typing right now. Someday… someday I will live in a low traffic area.