I've been trying melatonin to aid in my intermittent insomnia. Last night was day (er, night) two of the Grand Melatonin Sleep Experiment. So far, I think it has made it easier for me to get to sleep, but it is hard to say, since it is intermittent insomnia. Maybe it is just intermitting at the moment. In any case, as I was doing research on ( Read more... )

Hello world. I still haven't figured out WTF to do with my LJ since I moved all the zombie stuff over to The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse and, just today, installed a basic wordpress blog at blog.corycasciato.com to link all my writing. So, I guess this will just be for random updates about my life, incoherent thoughts, etc. I'll probably still put ( Read more... )

Another stunning victory for Talk Nerdy to Me at the British Bulldog Geeks Who Drink pub quiz. This time, we increased our margin of victory to TWO points. Watch out, we're unstoppable now!

On the down side, the soda machine's carbonation unit was busted while we were there so I was forced to drink iced tea. Sobriety really limits one's beverage ( Read more... )

I started watching Lost a couple of weeks ago. I'd avoided it out of disinterest since seeing the premiere episode and bits of a few more the first season. For whatever reason, it didn't capture my interest then. I think it was because I just wasn't that into TV/movies at the time. Now, after catching bits of the current season (Abby and Curt are ( Read more... )

So for the last couple months, we've been pub quizzing at the British Bulldog with the Geeks Who Drink crew. We have done consistently decent but keep falling short of winning, usually by just a point or two. Sure we've snagged second once or twice, but second place is just first in a long line of losers, right? Well last night, after my absence ( Read more... )

Dre' Bly released by the Broncos after two crappy seasons. Thank god! The guy was useless. He couldn't cover anybody. I spent the entirety of last season yelling at the guy as he ran after a guy that burned him.

Overall I am pleased with the direction the new regime is taking. There have been a couple guys cut that I am moderately sorry to see go, ( Read more... )

There will be no more (okay, perhaps very little) zombies on this LJ. Despair not, oh lovers of zombiedom! The reason is not that I have abandoned my love of all things undead. Oh no, quite to the contrary, I am turning the dial on all things zombie all the way to eleven! I'm just now doing it at a dedicated site. Welcome The Inevitable Zombie ( Read more... )

I promised some links to things here a while ago and some links to things is what you will get. First, if you want to read my more focused thoughts on Otto; or, Up with Dead People, there's the link for that. Then, maybe you want to read my latest piece for Topless Robot, about mad science disasters. Finally, how about my first piece of hate mail, ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to one and all! 2008 was a year that had its ups and downs for me. I'm not sorry to see it go, in large part because I am a bit superstitious in terms of measuring time. Basically, I tend to act as if a new year is a chance for a new start or way to leave behind old baggage and that is what I am hoping to do. I've got a lot of plans ( Read more... )

After playing fantasy football for the past two (or is it three?) seasons, I decided to take this year off, mostly because I slacked on finding a league to join. Then my brother ended up joining a league he didn't actually want to play in because he was bored one day and wanted to do a draft. I inherited that team, which was shortly thereafter ( Read more... )