CE Wills

    Hey, everyone. I am having a fun day, here at the green retreat. I have a number of things I'd like to talk about, if I don't get sidetracked. Firstly, about deflate-gate and the Super Bowl. I think that anyone who went back and watched the last three years of the playoffs on film and studied the last few minutes of the games closely during the miraculous comebacks, would find food for thought. Specifically, watch the play of defensive backs on many of the losing teams. I think that the deflating of footballs would seem minor, all of a sudden.      The other day I was at Wal-mart and got a wild hair. I had never looked at one of the game guides for the AAA games. They are pricey, and I only played I-Pad games for years. So, I had no reason to read one. I bought one for Far Cry 4 . Why? I just wanted to try one. Heck, I don't even own the game. Seems dumb of me, but I write about video games and I wondered about this phenomenon.   ...

     Hey, everyone. I have been doing an inordinate amount of gaming lately on P.C. and it is fun to play a variety of titles. My latest binge has been Wolfenstein: The New Order . Since I added RAM to my P.C. and turned down the graphic demands on the options page, the game plays well. Glad I didn't turn in a bad review on this game because it wouldn't have been fair.       Firstly, let me say that the storyline is quite compelling. Imagine if Hitler had won World War 2 and took control of the planet? History would have been so radically changed as to be unrecognizable. Well, that is the premise of this game. By the way, don't you think that the German people would like to see the end of movies, games and books that bring up this era? If it was me, I'd say, "Please, enough." I know that there are similar things in most countries' history, certainly America's. With us, things like slavery and the way we treated the Indians would be an exam...

     Hey, everyone. It is a cold , rainy day at the green retreat. The temperature is in the mid-thirties and there is snow in the mountains just west of me. I always hated this weather when I had to get out and work in it. If it had been colder, the precipitation would have been snow and though inconvenient for traveling, at least I wasn't soaked. Now I don't have to get out in it. But, after all those years, I have become somewhat ambivalent about the weather. I went for a drive and walked a track in the rain. I would have preferred to walk in the woods, but no one was walking but me, which is how I like it. Therefore it was a fine day for a walk on the track.       Though I wasn't walking in the woods, I did see some wildlife during the drive. The first was a woodchuck. He was running up the road on this old, narrow, country lane. His fur seemed very light-colored and I thought, perhaps, that he had tinted it, just a little. I wanted to...

    Hey, everyone. I watched a terrific, older movie tonight with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. It's called Roman Holiday and begins with Joe Brady (Peck) finding Anne(Hepburn) sleeping on a park bench in Rome. It is late and Joe hates to leave her on the bench. She is scarcely homeless, since she is a Princess who has ran away from home. Princess Anne is weary to death of her velvet prison, the tedium of royal B.S. I'm sure Prince Harry could identify. I would hate to endure the endless boring affairs and social functions. I don't think I would like my underlings telling me what to do and where to go and throwing 'my duty' in my face. Of course, it is very similar with our President, I suppose.       Anyway. Joe doesn't know that she is the Princess of  wherever. He doesn't know that her handlers have given her a sedative. He takes her to his apartment and honorably, some would say stupidly, lets her sleep on his couch. Joe is a report...

   Howdy. Tonight was the start of the final season of Justified on FX and this post will have some spoilers.      First off, about that title. Dewey Crowe is a character I love. He is so delightfully, deliciously stupid. I loved the guy, I should say. Well, his cousin(?) Boyd shot the ole boy tonight and I felt saddened by it. That's when you know that someone has created a cool character. When the fans grieve for him. Of course, Harlan County, Kentucky is a dangerous place.     Let me say that Damon Herriman stars as Dewey and does a wonderful job. What a great actor. Damon is an Australian bloke, by the way. At any rate, Dewey was working for Boyd Crowder, a ruthless but charming criminal in Harlan. And, when Boyd loses trust in you, bad things happen. So. Dewey is no longer with us.      Let me also say that I am aggravated with the hero of the show, Raylan Givens. (Tim Olyphant). Raylan is a U.S. Marshall and ha...

    Hey, everyone. Many years ago I was amused when my Dad or Grandmother would watch Wrestling on TV. It was so patently staged and faked that a child like myself could see it. I'm talking 50 years ago. I tried not to say anything, like everyone else. Clearly they loved the sport and thought it was real. They got a hurt look in their eyes when someone was less than enthused at the bad acting.       I have been a fan of NFL Football since 1958. The last few years have seen some odd things in the playoffs. Shocking rallies of several touchdowns in the last five minutes of games. Defensive backs flailing their arms comically as the ball lands in the receiver's arms. Game hinging calls made two opposite ways in a matter of hours, after slow motion review. It is time for me to quit watching football. It is either that or watch my kids' amused faces as I yell, "Watch him Ref! Can't you see he has salt in his waistband?"

   Talk about odd things to spend a few hours on. Yesterday, for no apparent reason, I studied the quagmire that is the End User License Agreement. As you know, this is the thing you sign for many downloadable games, software and the like. They would have had a tough time inserting this stuff down the throats of Americans many years ago but now most of us are sadly amenable to clicking the "I agree" box.       I read a lot about the agreements over on the terrific site called Wikipedia. The Eula is a device which is intended to form a contract with the user. Its intent is to give the owner of the software more power in copyright than the law allows for. It is many things, including a salve to company insecurities. Many times a court of law will rule them 'unconscionable'. That is, a judge, in good conscious, can't rule for a company that manipulates a customer's young age, ignorance or careless disregard of reading a long boring document, to sc...