I have a Facebook. It links to other people. Other people link to it. At CES, every service and cell phone in the known universe announced integration with Facebook.

What does it *do*?

*Does* it do anything?

Does Metcalf's Law still apply if the networked endpoints have no actual functionality?

I signed up for a Facebook account, on the grounds that all the cool kids have one, so if I get one that'll serve to drive down the average coolness of the cool kids, by association ( Read more... )

I started to write something longer, but then Puppah intervened. But I still want to journal something, so here's my Notes To Self from Saturday ( Read more... )

Last year's 366 album project was terrific fun. I've spent the last three months re-listening to favorites, not so much to new albums. I'd like to continue listening to - and writing about - new albums in 2009, just not at so breakneck a pace. So, gentle readers, keep feeding me recommendations! I'm especially interested in new albums - what's ( Read more... )

Wheee! Let's play "Holy crap the roof is leaking onto my laptop and onto the control box for my electric blanket and spattering the bed!" It's not really as bad as all that. We're talking about one drip every 6-10 seconds, and the bed is easily movable away from the source of the drippage. Most crucially, the laptop is unharmed, and there were ( Read more... )

Went shopping with Mom today, before she and Dad took the hatchback down to Gig Harbor to meet up with a friend Dad met at Jazz camp. While they were out, I broke down and bought Valkyria Chronicles, which I played for six hours without so much as blinking. No eating, no napping, no checking email, no bio breaks; not so much as even shifting my ( Read more... )

...the tough go shopping. And the going did indeed get tough; I've never seen Whole Foods so packed. You'd think there's some major feast occasion coming up tomorrow, or something.

Also, I think it's time to downgrade the situation from "Snowpocalypse" to "Slushpocalypse". Yuck.

It's a lot easier to make the trek up and over the ridge at the *start* of a long walk than at the end of it. Still, that's a tiring walk no matter which direction you do it in. As a result, the hatchback is back in service, it is chains-enabled, and parked just down the street. I really hope tonight's snowfall amounts to little more than a ( Read more... )

If/When I ever run a game of Mouse Guard, I'm totally gonna use this as the in-game soundtrack. It'll be awesome.

Was originally planning on going into work today and tomorrow, but Snowpocalypse forced me to change plans. My work laptop is at work, I don't want to set up any of my home machines for remote access (corporate antivirus == evil), so WAH just isn't feasible. The Black Hole Sun came out to play - there's a big gap in the clouds from Magnolia to ( Read more... )