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THINGS THAT PLEASE ME

Just a couple things in my life recently deserving of kudos:

*The Animatrix. Just got it on DVD... definitely worth seeing if you haven't. Striking images, and once the canonical stuff at the beginning has been done away with, half-a-dozen neat little manga riffs on the Matrix universe.

*ASUS PC motherboards. Once again, I did something rather stupid messing around with my computer's guts last Thursday, that evidently played temporary havoc with the voltage... the Asus motherboard just bent like a reed, leaving the videocard to bear the brunt, blowing it out in fact. Basically, the system failed as planned, which is always refreshing to see. I have never, ever, been disappointed by an ASUS product. I can't say that about many hardware companies, if any, to date.

CONGO UPDATE: IT'LL ALL BE OVER BY LABOR DAY, APPARENTLY

If Maurice Baril actually said what he's paraphrased as saying here, he's a damn fool. (He's going to merge the militias into a national army? Those would be the cannibal militias? By himself?) And does that "10,000 troops" number have a basis in any reality more tangible than the usual cockeyed UN optimism?

AHEM

Back to square one.