Mod parent up! I agree. In middle school (2003?) I would make programs to solve certain equations for me (Geometry and algebra, mostly), and I thought very much that it showed that I had a greater understanding of the subjects. Now I'm a sophomore in college, and I can say that the slipshod base I built myself in doing that still to this day comes back to bite me. I can find the power series solution to an ordinary differential equation, but I might run into trouble with some basic algebraic expansion. (Fortunately, because I identified this, I was able to mostly fix it, but for a while it was miserable)

I'm behind Google on the general principle, but did you actually use her Atrix at all, or instantly jump on it an customize it assuming MOTOBLUR was bad? I've had my Atrix for a month now, and the only downside I've had with MOTOBLUR was that it has limited customizability. It runs smooth as butter, and I feel does a great job at tying together the android experience in Motorola's own way.

God forbid a manufacturer customize anything.

100 paper planes?! That's almost enough paper for a BIBLE! How dare they litter.

The virtues are really where Ultima shines. If you've never played it, essentially, you get bonuses for being virtuous, and not through silly binary GOOD/EVIL choices like most games today.

When I played UO, I was a rare collector. Yep, a rare collector. My character was built for money making and self defense. I'd use my money to hire crews of warriors to go on live quests with me (or go myself, if I thought I could handle it) simply to get the rarest items I could. The nice thing about UO is that there were some completely unique items, and yet they were abundant enough that they weren't out of my reach. Sure there were perils, and sometimes I lost items worth many hundreds of USD to PKs, or even monsters, though I'd never have sold them anyways, but I still carried on. In my final days of UO I owned a castle with every rare I owned locked down in it. The castle itself was open to the public as a museum. That was my way of playing, sure it might seem lame, but no other game allowed me to express myself and play in my own unique way as much as UO.