I hate to say it, but I gave up on Linux. The dual booting kind of jerked my PC around and just generally annoyed me. I purged Ubuntu from my system, but not the idea behind it. Trying out Ubuntu opened my eyes to the Open Source community. I’ve come across some really great programs that were free. No need to feel guilty about stealing using a paid program because they are genuinely free. However, the support for some of these programs can cost money. But generally there are community forums for all the help you could ask for. They may take a bit of warming up to, but here are some programs worth looking at:

• Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
• Graphic Editor: GIMP
• Guitar Hero PC: Frets on Fire

Well, I dusted off the SNES… actually, I dusted off my SNES rom collection. I started playing some classic RPGs, namely Super Mario RPG. I was surprised by one specific situation that occurred. In one of the towns, a crocodile was mugging the villagers. The mugging crocodile ran swiftly past a Mushroom Person sentry and promptly left the village. Mario questioned the sentry why he did not stop the crocodile. This was his response:

WHAT?! Yeah, that was my reaction, too. Actually, I was surprised to discover the weapons technology of Mushroom People to be that advanced and violent. I like to think that it was a bazooka that launched flowers or mushrooms as projectiles. Or perhaps the word ‘bazooka’ was translated incorrectly from the Japanese version of the game. No? Oh well. I guess if you believe in Mushroom People to begin with, your bound to come up with some crazy ideas.