video games

I haven't been playing Fable much lately. My brother got me another RPG for XBox and I haven't played that yet at all. I played The Sims (I) a little last night. I made a Sim named Teena who wants to be a model and she lives in a trailer and there's all garbage in the yard and stray animals running around. I had to move her exercise machine inside the house because the trash outside was making her so unhappy.

My brother got Halo 2. I haven't talked to him since he got it so I don't know if it's good. I was never too great at the original Halo. I'd play with my brother in multi-player mode and I got good enough that I could kill him half as many times as he killed me.

He also recently got Dance Dance Revolution Extreme. I like a lot of the songs on that. I was doing Only You and where it goes "mumblemumblemumblemumble hands up!" I put my hands up. My brother said "they're saying 'all the hoochie mamas put your hands up.'" I listened more closely and that is, in fact, what they were saying. D'oh! So I said "I guess I'm a hoochie mama" and he said "...you know that's not a good thing" and I said "I know what it means!"

On the dance pad, I can get an A on Only You on Heavy mode. I was also like The NeverEnding Story but I can't remember whether I was on Heavy or Standard mode. They're only one foot different. Except it's little bars, it's not feet any more.

Something wrong, there

Look at this graph of what types of food people eat while driving. There's one problem with it: 55+34+33+24=146. So what do the numbers mean? Is '55' the percentage of all people who eat fast food while driving? Or the percentage of those who eat fast food among those who eat while driving?

Along the same lines, as much as I love fuckthesouth.com, I think there's something they could be more clear about: the divorce statistics are per 1000 people; they don't take into account that in some states, more people get married than in others. It's still true that in the blue states, there are fewer divorces per capita but (I haven't looked this up yet) it's likely that there are also fewer marriages per capita in the blue states. What the statistics are saying is not necessarily that a smaller percentage of marriages end in divorce but that fewer couples in the blue states rush into a marriage that's going to end in divorce. What I've heard is that the national divorce rate is about 50%; in this case, it doesn't mean that 50% of all people get divorced, it means 50% of all married couples get divorced. Anyway. The blue states are still better. I'm just saying. ETA: one of the links does talk about how people in the red states might be getting married younger and that partly accounts for it. So the links do mention it.