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  • "This is my favorite time of the year...it's cold and bitter, just like me!" (Waldorf)I had a thought last night. (Alert the media). My druid in Warcraft needs to continuously pay money in order to advance further in the…

  • Remaining very annoyed and moody. I can get two or three hours when I feel like "myself", then I sink back into the mire. We hates it, preciousss. My hope at this point is that I'll get angry enough at this miasma to for…

  • To PDG: Only uncanny? Hm. Given how many of the plot threads spun off into all the other X-Creta, i doubt you'd be able to follow it very well after the end of the Byrne/Claremont era. (AKA "The time when it didn't suck"…

  • Time to discuss the prezzies! (What the holiday is all about. I mean, even if you're religious, you can argue that God gave all of humanity a "Get Out Of Eternal Damnation Free" card, right? So the damn holiday is ABOUT …

  • Haven't commented for several days, so, my rating here is appropriate:Greed:Medium Gluttony:Medium Wrath:Medium Sloth:Very High Envy:Medium Lust:High Pride:Medium Take the Seven Deadly Sins QuizAs to why I haven't commen…

  • So, I sleep in the afternoons and code in the wee hours. It's a lot like when I lived in NYC, except then I was in my mid-20s and there was a 24-hour deli with very interesting customers shopping there at 3 AM. Here, the…

  • This is the way we kill time while queries churn. I'm in the slow part of edit-compile-run-debug. The 'run' now takes 10-15 minutes, and I can't trim it, since what I'm testing is the full end-to-tend production process.…

  • You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderst…

  • "I waste the half-dragon reaver with my +3 Smith&Wesson!""I rolled a +5 on my Witty Rejoinder check!"I'm talking, of course, about this. It really is amazing what people will do, given the most basic tools with which…

  • Feeling vaguely and unaccountably depressed. I hate this. You wake up, there's nothing wrong, but there's this huge sense of loss and emptiness that's just overwhelming. I suddenly feel very small and alone. This too, sh…

  • So. King Kong.Peter Jackson makes epics. He didn't used to -- he used to make small little films about monkey-infected zombies and perverted puppets. Today, though, he is a maker of epics, and, dammit, we need epics. We …

  • 'nuff said.

  • So I've spent the whole week fighting with code. With a moment's time while a process runs, I hop over to Amazon and find a whole suite of programming books "recommended" for me. I can't help but take this personally. :)

  • Ear bleach! Eye-gouging spoon! DIY Home lobotomy kit!

  • Following Celia's lead, here's the first sentences for each month of the past year from my blog. Looking back at the early entries was a bit interesting -- this year has seen an awful lot of changes in my life.Beth is ba…

  • So.Chronicles of Narnia.An awful lot of thoughts bouncing in my head from last night, especially since, due to a slight confusion about dates, we didn't end up seeing it until much later at night than I usually see movie…

  • Alas, poor Skitter! The vet had an opening and Skitter was momentarily out from under the bed, so, it was time for him to go! The instant The Cage Of Doom was visible, all the other cars paniced, setting up a desperate y…

  • Yay! A total stranger's unscientific test say me are smart! M self-esteem is restored! W00t!  Genius You are 76% knowledgable and 92% intellectual. Amazing!  You have an incredible brain (intellect) and a powerhous…

  • Only on the internet can you go to a freeware font site and discover a category for 18+ fonts.Looks like the song is true.

  • Everyone else is playing...You Are DasherYou're an independent minded reindeer who never plays by the rules.Why You're Naughty: That little coup you tried to stage against Santa last yearWhy You're Nice: You secretly giv…

  • Bah. Better Cthulhu than Disney.

  • Gods, Davan is me. Except I'm even older, crankier, and more cynical. I figure I'll hit some sort of cynicism singularity by the time I'm in my 50s, my soul becoming a black pit of pessimistic gloom so dense that no l…

  • Y'see, here's the thing. Lots of sci-fi predicted things like USB drives -- small, highly portable data storage devices everyone would carry with them. No big. But very few people ever predicted they'd be shaped like s…

  • Who SAYS capitalists have no sense of humor? My favorite.

  • "It is then that we must understand, God's sense of humor is very different from our own. He does not laugh at the simple "man walks into a bar" joke. No, God needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem m…

  • This is the way we watch data churn... In other news: Conversations with Cats Me: Skitter, how about for once I got through the night without you adding any new perforations to my feet? Skitter: POUNCEbitegnawclaw…

  • As promised, I did the Child's Play thing, donating a Wallace&Gromit DVD to the local sickly urchins. This was the best compromise between affordability and "Lizard thinks it's cool" I could find. I didn't want to…

  • Probably shouldn't give Josh any ideas... "Collateral Darren was another local legend. His specialty was destroying role playing games with point based character generation systems. In don't think he did it on purpose…

  • The scariest thing a programmer can get in his in-box is a message beginning with the words "Everything is looking good...", because those words are inevitably followed by endless changes, fixes, enhancements, revisio…

  • As promised, some images of the new household addition: Blurry image of cat on bed. Skitter "helpfully" keeping laundry from overflowing basket.

  • So, I ended up going to Wal-Mart to buy holiday decorations. Naturally, most of what was available was tackier than an explosion at a Crazy Glue factory. One ornament in particular stuck out for me -- an angel in bell…

  • As online quizzes get stranger and stranger....You are mRNA. You're brilliant, full of important,interesting information and you're a greatfriend to the people you care about. You mayhave sides to you that no one underst…

  • Made my writing goal for the weekend...5K words on giants. Still half what I used to do, but, hey, baby steps back, you know? Somewhere in the back of my mind, I had something actually non-trivial to say, but I don't …

  • Well, started writing again, in depth. Finally away from Mars, at least for a bit -- got to do some quick edits and enhancements tomorrow. I'm not sure what my NDA is on the current project, but I can say it involves…

  • I've got a bad feeling about this...

    That's no moon...and you all know the rest of the line. If you don't, you probably found this blog completely by accident. But it is a moon, of course -- Mimas.

  • Attempted Felicide

    Well, send over Grissom. Last night, Tasha got herself up on the bookcase behind the couch, which is slightly odd in itself, as doing so is a lot more effort than The Cat Who Never Moves is usually willing to expen…

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