I've read a random set of books recently, and had some thoughts I'd like to share about them. Some of this could be considered reviews, some is just thoughts.

( Last Call, Nth Honor Harrington, Crashers, Freedom(TM) )

Whew...finally home. Had an interesting experience with my flight from Miami last night. About 20 minutes into the flight, they announced we were turning around and flying back to Miami because of a security concern. Note, this is already about 9:30pm. We land, lots of trucks and cars with flashy lights surround us, and we taxi over to this special ( Read more... )

For the last few months, I've been playing around with Colossus, the Java-bases version of Titan. Mostly while I've been puttering. For a while, I was playing this wacky variant, called "Unified". It's pretty fun, though a bit silly, and a little degenerate because there's less temptation to fight to the middle. (But not as bad as before they fixed ( Read more... )

Someone stole my barbeque grille. Who the freak steals a grille?!?!?!? And it's friggin heavy!

(We have a theory, that being the construction workers working next door. After all, they'll have big trucks near our back yard. But it's not like there's anything to be done about it.)

Oh, the places I've been...


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