Microsoft released Settlers of Catan for the Xbox 360. In related news, Microsoft recently got some more of my money. If any of you have 360s and are huge nerds (you fuckers know who you are), pony up the 800 points (about $10) and come get destroyed by me. My tag is JackhammerLove.

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Marmaduke cold sucks. And not in the good way, like up-and-coming post-punk emo band The Cold Sucks. He just sucks. And the internet will explain why ( Read more... )

I just finished Scott Sigler's Ancestor, a novel that was released via podcast and topped many of the podcasteries' hit lists for some time. The science and the conceits were quite interesting. The characterization was clumsy; I liked the security guard/romance novel author, but how am I supposed to take the Special Forces villain seriously if he's ( Read more... )

Today, on the subject of finding a new career, the dead Chinese guys say the following ( Read more... )

Was supposed to hit ground in Sacramento yesterday at 8 pm pacific. After they cancelled the second leg of my flight, put me on a plane to San Francisco instead, then sent my luggage to Sacramento anyway, it was 11 at night before my bags and I got to Joel's house. Fuck American Airlines. Fuck Sprint too ( Read more... )

I'm gonna be in California for a wedding from Tuesday the 20th until Monday the 26th. For my Cincinnati friends, that means no Patrick. For my California friends, that means a buffet of Patrick.

Any Ohio people who want a postcard/souvenir/trinket from the bachelor party skin-bar, make yourselves known quick-like.

"Speak not of revolution unless y'all willing to eat rats..." -The Last Poets ( Read more... )

Sitwell's, my local coffeeshop, went non-smoking on January 1. They also hired a really, really cute waitress. I think I lost on that deal; I've never been slapped by a cigarette just because I put my mouth on it ( Read more... )

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."

And as a bonus, Franz Kafka:

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."