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I decided to buy a couple games recently only to find my video card is not quite up to par. So, I hunkered down and went through a bazillion reviews/specs/models and came up with an XFX Radeon HD4870. I have always had good experiences with ATi stuff….any hardcore nVidia people out there? The new 250-260 looks pretty too. I’m also borderline on my PSU, but I’ll see what happens…these cards are pulling over 200W under loads. Any McCrappiacs out there done hardware upgrades recently with any input?
UPDATE:

New Video Card

I heard a rumor that smoking tobacco was bad for you. Seriously? This is the first I’ve heard of it! Well, Obama has yet again granted sweeping new federal powers to make all of our lives better, and be sure that we hear about this so-called ‘tobaccy’ and its many dangers.

The good:
Requires complete ingredient list to be put on packaging and submitted to FDA, so they can check whether there is a harmful additive or not. However, I can see this eventually turning into “tobacco’s bad, m’kay” and that being banned as an ingredient as well.

The stupid:
Can no longer use the words ‘mild’ or ‘light’. Seriously, have these idiots ever tasted the difference between a Marlboro Red and a Parliament Light? Those terms aren’t just smoke and mirrors, and I highly doubt ANYONE left in this society thinks any cigarettes are safe to smoke.

Sterner warnings on packs: As if this warnings about lung cancer and empysema and birth defects weren’t stern enough. I’m too stupid to read, I need them pic-chars to shows me hows them ciggyrettes are harmyful.

No Flavors: Goodbye cloves.

Federal powers: Now replacing your state laws, one at a time! Thanks gov!

So, whatever happened to an expectation of personal responsibility?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202970.html
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/22/obama-signstobacco-bill/

Quote I heard the other day…
A liberal is someone who measures the success of a government by the number of people it helps. A conservative is someone who measures the success of a government by the number of people it doesn’t help, because it doesn’t need to.

Well, I was just perusing some headlines and saw that Ed McMahon died. As I read, I noticed his publicists name: Howard Bragman, and I thought, “Well, isn’t that appropriate for a publicist”.

I’ve seen this type of thing many times and always chuckle, so I figured I’d make a post. Anyone else seen any funny/interesting/appropriate names recently?

So I’ve listened to every single This American Life and Radiolab at this point and I was hoping other people have some suggestions for interesting radio programs to stream at work. Sometimes I just like listening to that stuff more than music while at work…

PS. for those that haven’t listened to the above mentioned programs…you should. they are available for free streaming online and they are really interesting.

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Not sure if this is old news to everyone or not, but I know a good number of you have a Wii at home.  The newest Tiger Woods that came out last week includes an option to play disc golf on all the courses.  It uses the new Wii Motion Plus attachment too, so controls are pretty accurate.

Title says it all. Do your part to lighten up everyone’s Monday!

Things have been a little slow here at McCrappy lately, so I took the downtime to update the site’s wordpress installation. In the same vein, our theme was looking a little bland and outdated, so I started playing around with some new themes. I’m not a huge fan of the one I currently have up, so if anyone has a favorite, point me at it. Maybe we’ll have to have a vote if there’s a couple of popular options.

You can check out possibilities here: WP Themes.

Of course we all knew this before…but these photos were particularly interesting to me. Not even going to get into it…y’all can imagine what I think…

http://history.verdeserve.com/the-official-american-flag-salute-used-to-be-a-hitler-salute/

Also…notice how we stuck it to those Communist Pigs in 1954…HA!!!

Versions of the Pledge:

• 1892 to 1923: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
• 1923 to 1954: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
• 1954 to Present: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”

This is obviously a cultural bias, but THIS is a tad odd in my opinion.

This question just came up a minute ago here at work – anyone have any insights?

Imagine you have a single tic-tac suspended in the air somehow. An infinitely small string or something – doesn’t matter, it’s just magically floating in one spot and not acted on by an outside force. We’re talking standard Earth air and normal gravity in the picture also.

It would be possible to horizontally swing a baseball bat hard enough to shatter the tic-tac where it is as opposed to having it bounce off and fly somewhere else, correct?

I assume that it would be related or proportional to the amount of air resistence that would prevent it from moving plus the standard force it would take to crush a tic-tac – but that’s as far as I can get. What would have to be known or determined to figure out exactly how hard (fast?) you’d have to swing?

Last night, eric received an invitation to his 10 year high school reunion. I am anticipating a similar event from my high school. We had a discussion about whether we’d want to go, pretty up in the air. Beyond the curiousity factor, I’m not really sure why I would want to go. Has anyone here been to an event like this, and was it fun?

For lunch today I want to eat at Jone’s Good-Ass BBQ & Foot Massage, where they actually serve fried pies and beer-battered bacon. Check out their promotional video here.

Hmm…to follow up on the Phaic Tan destination…here are 11 actual great destinations that have something special to offer. I’m somewhat surprised at MSNBC for publishing this one…but I’m happy to see that these sorts of things aren’t taboo to report on

It could save your life.