Restful, and full of reading.

I started Harry Potter 7 on Friday evening, abiding by my self-made mandate to read at least one book between each of the Potters. The intervention this time was a book that my boss' boss handed to me at work, a business book on developing, maintaining, and utilizing relationships through the internet and social ( Read more... )

it's called "i'm in like with you" -- read about it here.

it's in closed beta right now, which means that you need an invite to participate -- I have 6.

I'm about to leave for the day, but if you're interested in an invitation, leave me your email address, or email it to me. First come, first served.

Peace :D

Taxing the creative capabilities of the brain too soon after regaining consciousness is seldom productive. Indeed, I've heard tell that car engines emit 95% of their pollutables (it's a word if I want it to be) within the first five minutes of "waking" -- the pistons are only nominally efficient in the opening minutes of awareness ( Read more... )

sensory smorgasboard

At first, Wren didn't notice -- it took a unusual commitment of his attentional resources to concentrate on the Psalms in front of him for tomorrow's mid-term while the couple next door blasted their infernal playoff basketball on the television. Soon, he thought, they'd retreat to the bedroom and fornicate passionately, leaving the volume loud for ( Read more... )

Amelia's Part Two

read Part One hereThe creation of Woman is a commonly mistold part of the Genesis story-one that has lead to an imbalance between the sexes for thousands of years. Indeed, the apron-clad vision of Eve, her dark hair clamped high on her head, safe from the whir of vacuuming, fell away 17 centuries ago, torn from the Codex ( Read more... )

Onward, my son ( Read more... )

Most guys count themselves lucky when their girlfriends and wives allow them to escape for an evening of professional sports spectatorship. So Paul considered himself especially fortunate to have found a female who not only condoned his fandom, but supported it. But Lesley's participation in this particular NBA playoff experience came at a cost: a ( Read more... )

Here's an essay I wrote two summers back. It's about the videogame industry, but I don't think I ever posted it to LJ -- if I did, please leave a comment to that effect.
I haven't re-read the whole thing, but will at some point Friday. It probably rambles at points. Ah well.
Read on, if you're interested in the videogame media...

The Pitfalls of ( Read more... )