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Everything I need to know in life I’m learning from The Sims. Seriously. For instance, once you play The Sims a bit you realize that you spend most of your time cleaning up after your characters. If you hire a maid for a mere $10 an hour, though, your life gets incredibly easier. Well, two weeks ago Nick decided that life on Rannoch Road was getting unbearably messy. It’s true; we hadn’t vacuumed in months and the same sticky pots are always sitting by the sink. So Nick went out and hired us an angel. Her name’s Dana, she’s a middle-aged Italian woman, and she’s a gift from God. Friday was her first day and I almost didn’t recognize the house when I walked in. She must’ve been there for six hours. She even cleaned out all the lint behind the dryer. We love our Dana. Our lives are complete now.

Some more details on that “football player rapist” story are available through the South Bend Tribune. They never use the word rape; they just say “assault”. Apparently criminal charges were never filed against him. The victim claims that they specifically told her he would be banned “forever.” University adminstrators also apparently thought he was dangerous enough to warrant moving her to a safe room after they told him about the ban. The administration’s silence on this whole issue is starting to disturb me. I know there are rules about confidentiality in these cases, but it’s sending the wrong message to everybody right now. They ought to at least say something…

(Sidenote: There’s a National Coalition Against Violent Athletes?? Wacko.)

Forget that whole robot quiz… What enquiring minds want to know is, how good in bed are you? This site purports to tell you what somebody’s like in bed based on what they’re like out of it. It’s sorta like those quizzes that guess whether you’re gay/straight or male/female. The more people that take it, the better they get. You’re supposed to feed it details of somebody you’re interested in, but instead I pretended to be a guy appraising myself. My rating was a disappointing 3 out of 5 balls. But maybe I was being too harsh on myself… (P.S. Hi Dad!)

“Four held in Dublin over international terrorism.” EEK!

I know Jann was looking at alternative blogging systems, so he might be interested to know that a new one called Movable Type has just launched. The response to it so far seems to be pretty good.

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Tony Blair kicks ass. I’d vote for ‘im. 🙂

And who else thinks it’s ridiculous that a third of Americans can’t identify the leader of our nation’s biggest ally??

More Notre Dame news: I’m glad that Bob Davie finally got a win and all, but I really, really want one of those “Drinking because we suck” T-shirts.

Whoa. A girl at my university was raped in 1998 by one of the school’s football players. She reported it to the Office of Residence Life and the guy was banned from campus. He eventually transferred to West Virginia where he again joined the football team. This weekend that very team is returning to campus for a game. She thinks the ban should still stand. The school’s PR people won’t comment, other than to say they’ve been in touch with West Virginia. In the years since the assault, the victim has spoken about sexual assault at Freshmen Orientation and made a video that will be shown to incoming students in the future. All her work, she fears, will be jeopardized if this guy is allowed on campus this weekend.

Personally, I think if ND had any class they’d not only uphold the ban, they’d tell West Virginia that they’d rather forfeit the game than condone the actions of this guy. If he’d been a worker or a professor, there’d be no issue here. It’s only because he’s a football player (and Notre Dame has a multi-million dollar contract with NBC to broadcast home football games) that they’re even debating the issue. If ND really wants to be known as the Catholic moral force it aspires to be, they should take a hardline stance. We don’t allow criminals to play for our team, and we don’t want them coming into our community either.

Steve calls out all the companies using the “Osama Excuse” to explain bad performance and profits. They actually trotted that one out to us last week during the whole redundancy crisis. After the meeting (where it was mentioned twice), I asked someone else who’d been there what effect the tragedy could possibly have had on our business. We couldn’t come up with anything.

In response to a post at CamWorld, Foaf makes a good argument for NOT adding a Windows emulator to OSX.