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  • The usual two-days-before-writer's-club-and-I-haven't-written-anything blues. I got a *little* done today on Biff Testosterone and the Space Lizards, though I'd rather be working on Shifting Gears. The problem with SG is…

  • This was written by one of my old gaming buddies from NYC, who passed away of a tumor at a terrifyingly young age (i.e, younger than I am now, by a large margin). Just stumbled across it on the net and figured I'd share.

  • You know, as a kid who never wanted to admit to himself just how little artistic talent he truly had, I tried, and failed, to do 'Kirby dots'. If only we had had the internet back then... (I could have been downloading p…

  • Zen Garfield. Go figure. And yet another viral meme.

  • Yay! Viral memes!You're Wesley! Which Angel character are you? brought to you by Quizilla

  • People who don't know diddly-squat about science fiction shouldn't try to write it. They just come off looking like idiots.I'm talking about this film. Check out the 'timeline'.Other than the obvious attempt to be Shocki…

  • The only cure for depression is creation. I've had an idea for a game supplement for a while. Consider this a sample of hypothetical opening fiction for the hypothetical supplement.============================= Th…

  • Don't know why I haven't been blogging as much lately. other than the obvious stress factors, I've mostly been drifting. I finished up my last two major writing projects last weekend, and so, for the first time in months…

  • So we are not a happy Lizard right now. Despite my insistence that I just wanted to stay home and nap, Jane demanded I go for a walk with her. During the fairly slim window we were away, someone decided to liberate some …

  • This was posted in reply to Tony's blog. I figured I'd repost it here, as proof I can still think about things beyond cool links and this weeks "What sort of lanthanide compound are you?" (I'm lanthanide silylamide, of c…

  • Now all we need are green eggs....And in other news...Yay! Viral memes! (And blue tigers)adopt your own virtual pet!

  • Why Jewish Mothers Are So Important

    Four Mothers Responsible for 40% or European Jews" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Jewish mothers who lived 1,000 years ago in Europe are the ancestors of 40 percent of all Ashkenazi Jews alive today, an international tea…

  • So, in the good news depatment, my WoW character got a helm. Helms are hard to come by -- you really can't wear them until level 25 or so, and they're pretty rare drops. I'm level 31, and this is the first helm I've seen…

  • Too cool. Way too cool.

  • All too true...

  • To AH:"...and takes half damage!"

  • Doing my bit to spread viral memes...something else making the rounds, sadly devoid of proper crediting to whoever wrote it.10 reasons Gay Marriage is wrong:1. Being gay is not natural. And as you know Americans have al…

  • Having trouble sticking to your diet? Check out this page.The little place around the corner from me when I live in SF sold silkworm pupae, BTW.

  • Here's a good example of what I was talking about earlier, of people doing Cool Stuff with limited technology. Of course, this is 'just because we can' not 'because we've pushed the tech to the limit'.

  • Time for another programming "Good Idea, Bad Idea"Good Idea: Going through your code and making sure all your server connections are closed when you're done with them.Bad Idea: Going through your code and closing your se…

  • You know you'll be seeing this in your WoW mail box any day now...Dear Trusted PersonYou do not know me but I am Dwarf Thorm Ironbears, son of LATE DWARF KING Grom Ironbeard, who die in tragic Orc attack. Before he passe…

  • Well, I burned my entire collection of CDs to my iPod, and consumed...about 2 gig. That represents, oh, about a decade or so of CD buying. So I won't fill this thing up until I'm 160, at that rate.

  • Great. The food on there sucks. You scored as Nebuchadnezzar (from The Matrix). You can change the world around you.  You have a strong will and a high technical aptitude.  Now if only Agent Smith would quit beating up y…

  • There is, apparently, no domain name called 'demonictrout'.I am not sure why I felt obliged to type that into my address bar, but I did. This probably says something about my mental state.

  • And if you thought Kerry was ugly...

    A perhaps unfortunate juxtoposition of ads on DailyKos, the liberal's blog of choice. This is not photoshopped or edited, merely screencapped and clipped. (If it's small or illegible on your system, click it. If it's sti…

  • There's a reason I try not to upgrade computers more than once every three years or so. (Well, two reasons. The first is "poverty".) But my old Vaio had hit the limit -- namely "It won't run a program I really want it to…

  • Before I shower, a random thought. Does anyone else have 'template songs'? That is, small snippets of tunes in which random words can be placed?I have a lot, but two of late seem to be burbling to the top:From the great …

  • What's that sage old advice? "Always begin the new year up to your eyeballs in debt". That's the saying, right? Right? Oh....foo.In a sign that I am slowly digging my way out the hole, CompUSA extended me credit. A *lot*…