Author Archives: 'Ley

Fools and Money

After a particularly long night out on the town, I was smoking under a lamppost outside of one of late night downtown haunts. Looking very l’homme fatal, I saw a man I knew going up to people and asking for change. I do not really know him but his turf seems to be around my

Ancora Imparo

When you wake up in the morning there is an impulse to look back over the previous day and look for omens and portents. At least this is how I feel when I am staring at the ceiling from a lonely bed. I normally resist these urges but yesterday was a bit of a different

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I awoke to the sudden application of faint whisper, the type of whisper that is like a sledgehammer to the temple, that I am “Doing it wrong!” Looking around my bedroom there was nothing that could have stirred me from my slumber but now I was awake and nothing could be done about that. Groping

Final Fantasy XIII: Addendum Review

I have been playing Final Fantasy since I was a small child. Now it seems that I have been asked by Nietzche’s Demon/ Angle to play every one of these games in endless cycles and not sure if I am happy about this or I am going to end up in a pick up truck

The Citizen Kane of Video Games

No, I am not loudly announcing a new Citizen Kane in video games – which seems to have become popular around every major serial’s release, but rather to examine what a Citizen Kane of video games may look like. The problem I see every time somebody attempts to label a famous title as a Citizen

2012

So I was somewhat dragged to the 2012 movie for a midnight showing. I had no plans on seeing this movie and thought it would have been stupid. The only movie I liked by Ronald Emmerich was Stargate and that is only in way that I think it is a relatively stupid movie that is

The State of the User

Since this is an inaugural post from a computer elite philosopher let me start things off with a discussion on the three major desktop environments that people may be using in order to get here. This means I will be discussing the Juggernaut that is Microsoft Windows; Apple’s Mac OSX, including their interesting thoughts about how a computer should be sold; and finally GNU/Linux, which I simply refer to as Linux. So let’s get things rolling with and start with Windows.