The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!

Reasonably SFW, a little noisy. Any video that has Abe Lincoln blasting Batman with an AK-47 gets a recommendation from me.

http://www.bafsoft.com/~catalyst/ultimateshowdown.swf


And I also recommend Brokeback to the Future, gleaned from greyweirdo. Very funny piece!

The owner of Flying Buffalo is running for Scottsdale City Council

I received this email from Rick Loomis last night, sort of gaming related. I worked for Flying Buffalo back in the mid 80's during its hey day. Their most recognizable product was a card game called Nuclear War, a very fun and cute game. It has spawned two more in the line, though personally I think the first is best. ANYWAY, the link here is that the designer of this SkyTran system, Doug Malewicki, is also the creator of the Nuclear War card game.

Unfortunately Rick apparently doesn't know how to use BCC on his emails, everyone was in the To: line and I have no idea who 90% of these people are. I really don't like my email address being exposed like that.


Hi! Just thought you all might like to know that last week I went down to city hall and filed as a write-in candidate for the Scottsdale City Council election coming up March 14th.

No write-in candidate has ever won in Scottsdale, but it turns out it doesn't cost anything and you don't even have to get any signatures. But you have to file.

Reason I did this is because the papers have been discussing "Light Rail" for some time, and Phoenix is spending millions of dollars putting a rail line down the middle of town. Scottsdale opted not to do this, and there has been much discussion in the papers of whether we are "missing out" by not having "light rail". (i.e. old 1800's technology). But the discussion has always been whether we should have light rail, or nothing. No one is discussing alternatives, such as SkyTran (www.skytran.net) - an overhead monorail mag-lev transportation system designed by my friend Doug Malewicki.

There are three council seats open for election, and there are four official candidates, and seven write-in candidates. It should be amusing. I doubt I'll get more than a few votes, but I will consider my campaign to be a success if I can get just one reporter to write one article about SkyTran!

Monday I'll be on tv on the local cable channel for a question and answer session with all the candidates. I'll try to tape it - let me know if you want a copy!

I'm not looking for campaign donations as I don't plan to spend any money. As long as I spend less than $500 I don't have to file any financial paperwork. But wish me luck!
Rick Loomis
Scottsdale City Council Candidate!
480-945-6917

I would find it so amusing if somehow he won!