Aya and I had a thoroughly good time visiting her mother, although if you had asked me before I went "Do you plan to go out for karaoke with an autistic teenager?", well, given the specificity of the question I might have answered yes out of suspicion, but yeah, that was unexpected. He was a nice kid, though, you couldn't exactly have a normal ( Read more... )

I just finished the game Mass Effect, which I must say lives up to most of the hype, although sadly not the salacious Fox "News" misrepresentations about the consummation of the romances, I've seen steamier videos on... well, I can't think of anything clever to say, so imagine something cool and attribute it to me. The game's writing is solid with ( Read more... )

Lets see... first of all, I bought an interesting book called "History Lessons", it's a bunch of excerpts from the history textbooks used by schools in various countries. Some of the entries are not so interesting, such as the ones from France or Britain, as they don't deviate that much for the standard line, the ones from Cuba or North Korea, on ( Read more... )

I bought an interesting book the other day, "What we knew: Terror, mass murder, and everyday life in Nazi Germany: An oral history." I haven't gotten that far into it, but so far from the accounts of the Jews interviewed I was struck by their hate for Germany and Germans. Not that I condemn it, for the most part, just that in the previous accounts ( Read more... )

Onion-esque headline that just came to me: "Actually it *was* Adam and Steve, God clarifies in shocker".

Played a board game with some friends today, and somehow managed to totally kickass despite it being my first time playing the game, although I have to admit that being really lucky at key times really helped out. The game's Britania, a simulation of the rise and fall of various peoples in Britain, and somehow through skill and fortunate dice- ( Read more... )

My brain apparently is once again way smarter than I am ( Read more... )

Watch Brick. That is all.

Lesse, what have I done of late? I went to a small cherry blossom viewing party, which unlike most such parties took place at my friend's apartment instead of a park, but it overlooked some cherry trees, so I guess that counts ( Read more... )

I've been watching vids for the Wii game No More Heroes, a massively messed-up game made by the same company as Killer 7, and it has some great lines.

"If challenge were a taste, you would be quite delicious."