Monthly Archives: January 2010

Lucy is a born Maker

Lucy was home with pinkeye yesterday (about her 1,000th bout of it, nothing really to report), and I needed some bits and bobs, so off we went to the hardware store. Now, hardware stores are not really the most family-friendly … Continue reading

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It’s the drum fills

RockBand. Drums. The fills make me want to weep.

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Iorich

So far, so good. The poignant self-flagellating seems to be mostly confined to the Cawti story at this point, which is nice. The rest of it has the “sure, I have enemies, but bring it” type romp that is continuing … Continue reading

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Omnivores unite

seeon on Digg: Animals have one right, the right to be tasty.

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“one monolithic volume”

text analysis of the bible …good thing we really know that it’s a historical account, written by dozens of authors over thousands of years. Because if it was one monolithic volume, then who’s the author of said? King James?

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Born to Run

humans are built for long-endurance running

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New iPhone discovery

I just figured out how to add my blog to the home screen of my iPhone! Now I can expound on my ideas at will. W00t!

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And now, a break for some XKCD

These guys are generally funny, but some of them are just precious. Zealous Autoconfig Kindle My Dad, the sociologist, doesn’t find this funny at all. Fuck grapefruit. [url=”http://xkcd.com/443/]Know your vines[/url]

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Games I missed — more stuff I’ll never finish

Here’s a list of apparently-good games that I don’t own (for 360 unless otherwise noted): The Saboteur Velvet Assassin Gears of War Elder Scrolls IV – Oblivion GTA IV – both expansions Forza 3 Halo 3 Batman – Arkham Asylum … Continue reading

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Winter is the time for videogames

Even with the strangeness surrounding Christmas videogame buying this year, I picked up a few good titles. With TV being awful (yay, reruns), this is the time of year that videogames become the household entertainment. It’s a bit like being … Continue reading

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