Jay McGavren's Journal

Oh, my %$#$@%$#@@%@$%ing GOD!

One copy of Burning Crusade will upgrade ONE WoW account. Another $40 to upgrade the second, which I wouldn’t even have if it wasn’t required to play from 2 PCs at once. Not only that, there’s no way to purchase a key online (that I could find). I had to run to the store after another freaking box, just to get the %$#@ 26-digit code inside.

Fuck you, Blizzard. Fuck you.

I'm sure it's too late for most of you, but...

If you hear Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” coming up on the radio, change the station. It’s not that it’s a bad song, it’s that you don’t want something that depressing stuck in your head.

Best Buy is offering a World of Warcraft map for $2 - shipping is free. Pre-expansion, but it could be useful anyway. Just ordered ours.

> More than just a map, this giant lay of the land is a work > of art. At 24” x 36”, this two-sided map makes a great wall > hanging in any room. On one face, the map shows all flight > paths, including the Horde, Alliance, Neutral and > Druid-only travel points. On the flip side is an unfettered > map of Azeroth displaying a beautifully rendered view of > the topography of the islands.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8206069&type=product&id=1165610667161

Popped next door to Target and bought a Burning Crusade box ($40) as well. Lessee, and we’re dropping, what, $30 a month to maintain two accounts? Man, Halo 2 was a lot cheaper…

This article suggests that a minimum wage hike is essential not just to everyone’s livelihood, but their safety as well…

> If the gap between rich and poor gets too large, and if > those at the bottom feel they have no meaningful route to > the riches at the top, then the fabric of society will > fray, or even come unraveled entirely. … > Shortly before I arrived in Brazil, a British tour bus was > hijacked and robbed in broad daylight on the way from Rio’s > international airport to a ritzy beach area. While I was > there, two Supreme Court justices were carjacked on the > same road. > Overall, the murder rate in Brazil is five times that of > New York City. … > The New York Times reported recently on a World Bank study > concluding that if Brazil had the much lower homicide rate > of Costa Rica, Brazil’s GDP would have been three to eight > percent higher in the 1990s. > As one economist explained in the article, “You have money > spent on guarding stuff rather than making stuff.” And when > international investors look around the globe, they choose > safer places.

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/economist/19750

Boosting the minimum wage is just giving a man a fish, though. Let’s teach him how to fish by raising education funding as well.

It seems I never just sit down and pick a programming language up… I flirt with it for a couple years, trying to convince myself that I really need it.

Well, I’m really liking Ruby now. The reason is the whole “Ruby classes are never closed” thing. Feel like going back and adding methods to a class? Go for it. Want to add methods to an individual object? It’ll create a virtual class for that object behind the scenes. Mixins aren’t so mysterious if you view them as a batch-adding of methods to an existing class.