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March 2008 Posts March 28, 2008  As long as they haven't redefined what Space Opera is, I wouldn't mind reading this book, and I can even have a try.
So, someone has finally cracked the kitten gene code and created customized fur patterns on kittens.
I will have a rant post sometime later but after we had the 18 hour power outage a few weeks ago, we began losing internet connectivity after a certain amount of time. I assumed it was the modem. It may be more of a torrent problem, but it strange that it happened after the modem went back to factory defaults. Also see this.
March 27, 2008 The yoshoku category is broad, and includes dishes that have become so integral to the diet that many Japanese wouldn’t consider them Japanized Western food at all, but simply Japanese food."This is definitely a cuisine I would like to try more often. I love Japanese curry though I barely eat. When coworker-J arrived back, she said most Japanese preferred Indian curries over traditional japanese curries.
I used to say that the purpose of this weblog was to update friends and family about what was going on in my life that they wouldn't hear in phonecalls and emails and letters. And since I barely ever communicate with friends and family in any of those methods, letting this die is not a good idea. More personal updates? To a degree. One must always avoid releasing too much out there especially when mom & coworkers don't need to know about the amount of pantie shots in the anime you are watching. TMI, right?
A rut. Rut am I. And I am not rutting. But I am in one. One so deep it might a crater left over from those asteroid movies I am so fond of. It's more a routine, a routine I am used to but not a good one. It involves going into work late every morning. Well not technically late as it is the time they suggested to me. But it means I leave work at 6:30pm every day. That means getting home sometime between 7:15pm and 8pm. And then making dinner and then either watching some TV or playing some video games. Right now? "Do you want romp?" does not mean so grindy grindy grindy, unless you consider the grind of WoW leveling. And we are only midway through season three of Doctor Who. And that is basically it.
So many plans, so many things on my plate to do. Three designs in the works for webpages -- mine, my photoblog (stalled again) and one for a friend. One promised for a friend and not fulfilled. I suck. The apartment still desperately needs to be PURGED. You know, it is really hard to give away old RPG books. Nobody will even consider taking them. Not for free. But it matters not cuz I am not boxing them, not listing them, not carrying them, not moving them.
Weekends? Laundry. Cleaning. Sitting. Staring. TV. More WoW. Some Dungeonsiege. Some TF2. Some more fighting with our new ISP. Some season 3 of The Wire. A movie or two DLed. More sitting. More staring. Not getting out the door. Not making tasty recipes. Barely ever going out to a movie. No D&D writing. No D&D playing. No CD covers. More staring.
It's weird because I finally got away from The Store. I finally abandoned the stress induced coma I was in there. But I retained the coma it seems. I got the new job and the new paycheck. I am fulfilled (to a degree, nothing is ever perfect) at work. I like my coworkers. But I cannot abandon the sloth that I sorry-for-myself provided as the excuse for everything when I was going no where at The Store. Maybe The Store was the excuse and the symptoms were deeper?
Eeeek. Maybe sometimes it's better to not update you about what has been going on in my life?
March 27 08 March 26, 2008
In 2001 I said, "a page made for 640 x 480 and a 28800 baud modem can still make alot of people happy." Do you think this can still be true? March 26 08 March 24, 2008 March 19, 2008 We don't own a home. We probably won't for a very long time. But constantly, family and friends are saying we should. They all seem to quote these Myths That Ruined the Housing Market.
March 18, 2008 Wow this is one cool robot. It can walk in snow and recover from falls. But it freaks me out a little as it looks like two guys facing each other carrying a heavy load.
March 17, 2008 A couple of years ago I made a drunken comment at a GTAB gathering about how we needed a social networking group for garlic lovers. Maria ran with it and created Garlicster. Nice she put my name on it even though I have not made a single post. But whatever-ster is no longer relevant; I think it is time for GingerBook.
LMAO. What else would you do if you were showing George Clooney aspects of the Internet that he may have overlooked? Well of course, show him 2 Girls 1 Cup.
March 14, 2008 March 13, 2008 The tribute blog entries to Gary Gygax continue to roll out (groan) but none are like these two gems: Gygax, a nerdcore rap and the There be (Dungeons &) Dragons Mixtape.
March 12, 2008 LOL. Photoshop Disasters covers unfortunate uses of PS in photo and image retouching. For example, how about love in the age of mutants?
March 11, 2008 March 10, 2008 March 06, 2008 Man o man, WE are watching the Watchmen. And what's up with these armor costumes? At least Roschach doesn't have Batman-style nipple armor.
March 05, 2008
I think Destroy All Monsters will be a good read. This came from the Time mag blog mention of the Dungeon Master. There have been a lot of good mentions like NY Times, Penny Arcade, Order of the Stick, Wil Wheaton, Jeff's suggestions, our own Joey deVilla, an LOLcat reference, Dork Tower, Wizards, etc. Many have tried to avoid using a D&D cliche to talk about his passing, but I think it's the best kind of memoriam. These are the terms that are ingrained in our heads BECAUSE of him. They speak of our fondness for the paradigm he created.
Ooops, forgot Full Frontal Nerdity.
March 05 08 March 04, 2008
Oh fucking no. Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator Dies at 69. Fuck. Man, I haven't felt a celebrity death like since the death of Jim Henson those many years ago. This man, even more so than Dave Arneson, made the impact on my childhood that lasted until right now. Gygaxian D&D was my idea of D&D. At least I was able to tell the man the impact he made before he went to -10 hp.
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