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Today be “Talk like a Pirate” day! I had hoped to be splittin some funny booty with me mates, but all my wit seems to have been boonswaggled (not a pirate word, but very very fun). Instead I’ll say that I hope to post something up later this week (I don’t want to wait a year! I’m impatient) and tell you about Puzzle Pirates.

First off, byt the time you read this, my WoW account is closed down. Seggers is no more amid tearful goodbyes and the giving out of thousands of gold worth of gems. To compensate until Tabula Rasa comes out, I picked up a month of Puzzle Pirates. I didn’t expect that much out of the game, but its quite addicting and fun. I really like the concept of everything being a puzzle. For instance: Sword fights are a falling blocks type game (Think Tetris or, more accurately, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean bean Machine), Rumbles (fist fights) are a Bust a Move type game, ship building is matching… the list goes on. What I like is that I don’t really have to worry about gear or any of that crappy MMO stress. I can just log on, play some puzzles, and go plundering with 50 people on a ship. Its a good time.

Now I’ve lapsed out of Pirate Speak so, Yar I’m off to the bar! I’ll scrounge up some mead, and plunder indeed!

Note: This post somewhat breaks my “No politics” rule. If you don’t want to hear it, don’t read it. If you have an opinion, leave a comment. I’m about freedom of speech and if you want to say “You suck” or “Amen to that” you can feel free to email me at snarky(at)thesnarky.com just please don’t leave that as a comment since I want comments to go somewhere discussion wise. Oh, and Kanye if you read this, please drop me a line.

Today two albums came out today. One is 50 Cent’s Curtis, the other is Kanye West’s Graduation. (Ok, three if you count Kenny Chesney’s newest as well *grin*). I have a very wide taste in music, there’s no genre I completely dislike (though individual artists, as you’re about to find out I am very specific about) and that taste does include Hip Hop/Rap (as well as Country). Both these artists are rather large in the Rap world, and its very interesting that they ended up releasing on the same day. Also interesting is that they both appeared on the same TV show (106 and Park) this afternoon. I decided to watch, as I’ve got mixed feelings on both artists and felt it’d be very interesting. Boy, I hate being right. Where to begin? (Note, if you don’t care why I feel this way, skip down to the “Tell Kanye off with your wallet” section to see what I’m doing about it)

Friends, Coders, Net Junkies, lend me your ears,
I come to praise Windows, not bury it!
The good of code like this is oft talked up;
The cost is buried in the legal crap.
So let it be with Windows. The noble Gates
Hath told you Windows quite cheap and good.
If it were so, it is a coding feat,
And Windows rightly spread across the Earth.
Here, under leave of Bill gates and the rest –
For Bill Gates is an honorable man,
So is Microsoft, honorable all –
Come I to speak ’bout Window’s legal state.
I don’t use it, it costs just too darn much.
But Bill Gates says it is quite cheap and good,
And Bill gates is an honorable man.
It crashed each day and disappointed me,
Then crashed my bank, ’cause good code don’t come free.
Did this in Windows seem affordable?
I saw BSOD, but Windows didn’t care.
Good code, I think, should always try() and catch().
Yet Bill Gates says it is good code, and cheap,
And Bill Gates is an Honorable man.
You saw they were accused, “Monopoly!”
Convicted guilty and then forced to change,
But they did not. Is this good business form?
Yet Bill Gates says it is quite cheap and good,
And sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Bill Gates says,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all have used it ’cause “its all that’s out”.
Why then do you not cry “Monopoly!”
O Judgement, thou are fled to stupid beasts,
And men have lost all reason!
Bear with me.
My heart is buried with my lost choices,
And I pause til I afford Vista.
–Snarky’s Life, Act 21, Scene 8