Yesterday we went sledding. First, in the back yard. This was fun on some intellectual level where you're amazed that the sled will actually move across ground that's only 50% covered in snow and where you have to go over several small sumac trees ( Read more... )

I swear I've eaten more chocolate in the last 2 days than should be allowed. Oddly enough I don't appear to be gaining weight because of it. Perhaps I've fallen into some sort of atkins-style fad diet where my body simply can not digest as much sugar as I'm throwing at it. Maybe I'm actually burning a marvelous amount of calories playing donkey ( Read more... )

Ahh, it's that time of year again when I go off to spend christmas eve and christmas day with the family. There's two things you can be sure of on a trip like this. There will be tons of frantic, last-minute present wrapping to help with, and there will be no internet access ( Read more... )

Still the most interesting things to write about are things I can't talk about because they're all surprises for people. All I can say is, Reebs, I hope you're planning on wearing clothes you wouldn't mind getting crude oil on ( Read more... )

I was intrigued by this recent Anarchy Online offer. They give out their basic version of the game for free, and you can have an account for a year for free as well. Sounds great, no? I knew AO was a bit dated, and was actually counting on this to guarantee that performance would be decent. After 36 hours waiting on the bittorrent link, you know, ( Read more... )

I think it's starting to hit me that I don't have any classes anymore. It's nice because it hasn't yet hit me that I don't have a job lined up and that my bank account is draining fast, like a water-balloon falling on a bed of nails. Well, maybe not that fast, but I will definetly need to find a job sometime soon if I would like to continue, you ( Read more... )

I just came across this review of Mario Party 6 done up by Wired. Now, I'm going to admit, I'm a fan of the series, but even taking this into consideration, the review is a piece of crap. It reads like the reviewer sat down and tried to include every general cliche that a review usually contains. Either that or they read the description of the game ( Read more... )

I know I've linked to this before, but it's still cool to see some of the world's stats ticking up in 'realtime'. I think they were linked by a few popular sites today since the site failed to load on the first try for me. Just hit refresh a few times if you can't get in right off the bat ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I played a game where the objective is to plow Boston. It's also been a long time since I saw a 30-foot-diameter mint candy, or a snowflake the size of a truck, but I have been spending a lot of time indoors finishing up school so who knows.

This is an amusing cross between a breakout game, penguins, ice, and a seesaw. ( Read more... )

If you haven't read the story about the psycho repo guys who have no clue about how the internet works try to talk to the author of a web server software package, then let me hook you up. Pretty amusing story. I would have run out of patience and reported the guys to the cops much sooner than he blocks them though.