At my birthday party back in December I was given a very special present: My closest friend, sunjun was flown out from St. Louis to visit for the weekend. It was amazing and I looked forward to doing the same for him when his birthday came. Thankfully, despite American Airlines' best efforts, I'm here in sunny (and humid) St. Louis and enjoying every ( Read more... )

I've always hated the MMORPGs ("games" like Everquest, Ultima Online, and most recently, World of Worcraft) but always lacked a simple, elegant reason to hate them. This is the articulation of that reason. It's beautiful...

This is the kind of wise-ass that I've always wanted to be. Sadly, I've always felt that my efforts fell short...

The real reason that I never got into paper RPG games.

I can literally feel the life being sucked out of me by this place. A couple of years ago my job was kinda shitty, pretty thankless, and altogether dull, but at least it had a moment now and again of being challenging. Now the stuff I'm grinding away at makes me want to shoot myself. I spend more time trying to stay awake than I do actually working ( Read more... )

I was talking to one of the programmers today and somehow we started talking about BitTorrent and downloading and etc. He mentioned that he was all about Bob Ross (the mellow guy with the fro and the beard who was always painting cool shit on PBS) and was trying to find and download every episode ( Read more... )

( My first draft in a while )

...and this past Friday showed me that. My experience of pounding shots with police supervision was a bit rougher than I bargained for ( Read more... )

So yesterday I got a call from a friend who had an interesting opportunity for me. His brother is a cop here in Raleigh and they needed to train their new officers in sobriety testing. How do they do this? They get people to come in (typically relatives and friends and the like), liquor them up, and then run them through the tests. He even asked me ( Read more... )

...as I bask in the radiance of the admiration of teenage nerds everywhere. Kneel before your champion, mortals.