This makes illegal downloading MUCH harder to rationalize

The Disney Movie Rewards Program has made pretty much every rationalization I ever had for illegally downloading a movie a moot point now. All I have left is "It's not available on DVD" and/or "I like to steal things because I'm a bad man".

New DVD and Blu-Ray movies from Disney have a code in them. Take this code to their website and it works two-fold:

1) You get "Points" for the purchase that you can redeem for nifty little (or big) prizes... from free stuff (downloads) to awesome collectibles and all points in-between. But that's not what's going to make it hard for me to rationalize bootlegging...

2) Your purchase gives you unlimited access to a Digital Cloud copy of your movie! You can watch it streaming on your computer, mobile device, whatever... FOREVER! THEY GIVE YOU A DIGITAL BACK-UP THAT YOU CAN NEVER LOSE OR SCRATCH OR OTHERWISE MAKE UNPLAYABLE!!!

That... that's just incredible to me. Why hasn't the rest of Hollywood started doing this? This is *extremely* forward-thinking of Disney! I can hardly wait to start buying movies again instead of just rent-n-rip!

Her first

My darling wife, khristle, has finally had her first *real* Dungeons & Dragons experience and it's just so *cute*!

We've played D&D before, but it's always been 4th Edition which is an okay game and all, but it's just not Dungeons & Dragons. It's a turn-based MMORPG that you play on your kitchen table instead of on your PC.

So we've been playing PATHFINDER, which is basically Dungeons & Dragons 3.75... everything that was awesome about D&D 3.0 and 3.5 mashed together with all the tweaks and modifications that were supposed to get published in the next edition of Dungeons & Dragons if World of Warcraft hadn't come along and made them rethink the entire gaming system.

The biggest difference between our previous D&D sessions and our new Pathfinder sessions is that Crystal *really* gets in to it; there's actual ROLE PLAYING involved :) I can tell she's actually "getting it" now because she likes to talk about her character and her campaign and she'll tell anybody who will listen about this cool thing that happened... just like we all did back in the early days of our first D&D campaigns :)

It's just so darned cool to see it from THIS side, and know thatr it's something every new player goes through :)