Morning Ramble #2

World Cup

Pretty excited to see that the United States Women have made it to the World Cup finals. They seem to be a fairly good team. Especially their goalie who as far as I can tell has only given up a single goal during the entire world cup championship. I suppose I am a fair weather fan in that I only pay attention to soccer every couple years when somebody is having a World Cup or maybe the Olympics are on or something like that but I find the sport somewhat interesting. Of course being an American, the low scores are kind of offputting and I do like to see a bit more action than kicking the ball around a little bit, but I do enjoy some of the strategies. Also, for whatever reason I, seem to feel that the women's game tends to have less dramatic acting from the players. Whenever I watch a men's game it always seems that somebody acts as though they have had their leg chopped off as as they try to kick the ball when nobody was around. It really gets annoying seeing these people pretend to have been injured when camera angles clearly display there was no contact. In any case, I wish the American women lots of luck in their game Sunday.

Monopoly Movie

I guess monopoly is going to be made into a movie.

I believe they are basing it off of Atlantic City and the boardwalk area there, but it sounds kind of interesting. I'm not really sure how they are going to be able to make it that exciting since you're simply buying properties, buying houses, building hotels. I guess if you're Donald Trump or a fan of real estate television you might enjoy these type of things. Not sure how they're going to get much action into such a story. But then I was very skeptical about the battleship movie before it came out. It was a fairly decent film and I enjoyed the action in it so I guess perhaps they can put something together for monopoly. Maybe aliens are trying to buy up everything around their landing zone in Atlantic City?

World of Warships

Speaking about battleship,

I just got an email indicating that World of Warships is in open beta right now. I really enjoyed the World of Tanks and I had some fun in World of Warplanes even though I didn't play it that much. I think the Warship experience could be a lot of fun. I'm downloading it as I write this and will see how the game plays at least in its beta phase. I haven't checked but since I enjoyed the iPad World of Tanks game I would play the World of Warplanes or World of Warships on an iPad. I'll have to see if they have those games out.

Real True Blood

Apparently in England, they are going to be starting human tests in 2017 using artificial blood. This blood uses lab generated red blood cells to supply oxygen to the body. According to New Scientist, there has already been a few subjects that received similar treatment back in 2011, but since blood donations are significantly down in the UK (a decline of 40%), they want to move forward with testing this substitute. While I think the Vampires will be excited with this True Blood development, I strongly feel that people should donate blood whenever they can so synthetic blood is only needed in emergencies.

Morning Ramble #2

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