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R.I.P., Frank and Bev Herbert

News ·Monday August 28, 2006 @ 21:42 EDT (link)

"I was an immigrant... my parents made us read dictionaries, ... memorize the dictionary... and write essays."
—Teresa Lin, Fear Factor

On one side, ladies and gentlemen, we have a girl who immigrated from China, whose parents encouraged her work hard to learn English, and who pulled herself up by her bootstraps and became a successful model. On the other side, we have entitlement-minded illegal alien Mexicans, who want to ghettoize and balkanize the country, who demand the government speak to them in their language, who refuse to integrate. I rest my case. Kudos to you, Teresa Lin, and to your parents.

Played Warcraft tonight; won against a level 19 Human (I'm level 12). He was going gyrocopters for some reason, and they just weren't all that good against my rifles. He tried to creep-jack me and my MK and I forced him and his Paladin to portal out, then we ran into each other's armies near his base, I wiped his out, and then bulled right into the base, where, despite heavy losses, I was victorious.

Last (Frank Herbert) Dune book, Chaperhouse: Dune finished. Touching obituary for his wife at the end; he died two years later (1986). He lived in the Puget Sound area. Now back to reading the Mallorean.

Work: frustrating since I have some timing-sensitive, remote-only, ship-only bugs (pick any two...), although when my build completes (and I have faith, really I do) I hope to be able to test the Japan-crash bug locally.