After something like 3.5 hours of playtime on the Pyramid of Shadows in Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracles, I finally defeated the level tonight.

You can watch the final, successful attempt, here: https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?t=5395&v=iXkfDzAlIf0

When I was 18 or 19, in one of my last dental appointments while still living at home, I got an x-ray done, and the dentist told me that all four of my wisdom teeth were impacted, and would eventually have to come out. At the time I had just finished up with a ton of orthodontia a year or so before, and it didn't seem like a huge priority at the ( Read more... )

I worked out why this feature of our API doesn't work at all the way the documentation says it does ( Read more... )

I beat the original Mega Man today! I did it by super-cheating, but it's a common form of cheating; I also used a walkthrough because trying to determine which enemies weapons work against each other isn't really practical ( Read more... )

This weekend, Jess and I went to the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort. Specifically, we stayed in the Bretton Arms. It was a nice chance for me to get away from work, something I desperately needed to do after a long couple weeks of stress ( Read more... )

Since the launch of YouTube's Gaming property -- essentially a competitor to Twitch -- I've been partaking more of our live streams there, and have even done some myself. (on a new channel I set up, Chris Plays Games.)

Some things I've learned:

• These people work marathon hours. It seems not-atypical for people to stream for 8-10 hours a day, for 5 ( Read more... )

Things that are -- or have been -- on my mind:

• Attempting to make myself seem sufficiently palatable as a higher-level employee on paper that I can get promoted.
• Deciding who is the next winner of the Awesome Cup, and writing a reasonable valedictory speech to pass it on to the next winner. (Made more difficult by my distance from many of the awesome ( Read more... )

What are the reasons that I should get a different iPhone than an iPhone 5C?

I woke up at 3am today from a dream/nightmare that I was having. In this dream, my YouTube account was suspended, because my videos were loading data across a link which was severely impacted by a fiber cut.

You know it's been a long week when your dreams start to combine the two (terrible) aspects of your work week.

So, Kristan is dating a guy-long distance. She just visited him and came back, and said "Wow, this really sucks and it's only been two weeks. How am I supposed to make it the next two months until I see him again?"

So, I thought to myself: Let's go look what I did!

Luckily for me, my whole mental history of that time of my life is online, so I ( Read more... )