{"id":1676,"date":"2007-12-02T19:28:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2007-12-16T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T01:46:07","slug":"on-snow-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"On snow and games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, we were hit by a snowstorm that apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nova-scotia\/story\/2007\/12\/02\/weather.html\">took everyone by surprise<\/a>: After finishing shopping in the local mall, we walked and drove through the very first winter storm to hit our area. This comes right after the Weather Office&#8217;s prediction that this year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2007\/11\/30\/winter-forecast.html\">going to be the coldest Winter<\/a>. Worst yet: Right on the road to the mall, for some explicably stupid reason, I decided not to bring my camera.\n<\/p>\n<p>CBC had many reports about the elections in Russia: the most memorable report was the one about the pro-Putin youth group <em>Nashi<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4491633.stm\">BBC link only<\/a>). It looks like Putin&#8217;s party will be winning which will (apparently) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/europe\/12\/02\/russia.vote\/index.html\">make him a prime minister at the end of his presidential term<\/a>. If that doesn&#8217;t sound absurd.\n<\/p>\n<p>And the last thing I want to bring attention at is the <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/jeff-gerstmann\/gamespot-editor--on-fired-reviewer-328775.php\">GameSpot incident<\/a>. In short: a games editor\/reviewer gives a game a bad review and is fired afterwards. A good summary can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualfools.com\/games\/jeff-gerstmann\/\">Virtual Fools<\/a>. I generally don&#8217;t read online game magazines because I don&#8217;t agree with the superfluous rating systems each of them uses: additionally, I&#8217;ve always had my doubts about magazines that review computers games and have the games&#8217; ads prominently on display, simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we were hit by a snowstorm that apparently took everyone by surprise: After finishing shopping in the local mall, we walked and drove through the very first winter storm to hit our area. This comes right after the Weather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11],"tags":[228,47,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}