I said I was going to Vegas, but I lied. I am holding down the fort here in Funcouver instead. I got bumped in favour of a booth babe. I may be cute and polite, but I am not pretty and friendly. I will not know the chaos of this convention.

Hopefully it will prove to be a useful experience; I now have time to figure out a few crucial life matters. ( Read more... )

Just got my hands on a whack of Meshuggah. For those of you who don't know who that is, they are a heavy metal band that were playing shit that people still are trying to decipher and imitate. They were doing this in 1995. "Turned the metal world on its head" is the phrase one may come across when reading reviews about them. "Polyrhythmic" is ( Read more... )

Some underlying principles by which I live my life I have found recently not necessarily to be shared by some. This caused me to re-identify them and realise that they can be reduced to pithy sayings. Read, and know me ( Read more... )

GenCon is actually pretty fun. Despite an absurdly long drive down, some intense disappointment, and many hours pitching my game to people who sometimes just go, "K. Thanks," and walk off, lots of the people and lots of the events are good. Highlights include ( Read more... )

So I was in Deutschland. We made many connections, I gave many pitches, and fun was had by all. The con was MASSIVE, like 7 halls full of gamimg. Mostly board gaming. And a strangely high number of booths selling real live armour and boffer swords. Yes, they do boffer LARPS in Europe. A LOT. Pretty fucked up, huh ( Read more... )

TMI



What is your salad dressing of choice?  Ranch, baby! Or Italian, if I am feeling vinegary.
What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Jack in the Box kicked my ass the one time I went.
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? I have many. Sha-Lin? Feenies? Memphis Blues? Marcello's? Nick's? Hell, I couldn't choose.
On average, what size ( Read more... )

Greetings from Champaign, Illinois. It is nice here. My girlfriend and cat remember me and still love the hell out of me, as I do them. The University is very pretty. If I had decided to come here, it would have been pretty goddamn nice.

Anyways, I'll be back on Friday evening.

"If there was a day I could live, if there was a single breath I could take, I'd trade all the others away." - Lamb of God, 'Laid to Rest'

"It's life: the dark that binds you." - In Flames, 'Bullet Ride'

These two quotes represent perfectly a certain strain in contemporary culture and thought. The realisation that something looms large just outside ( Read more... )

The core statement of philosophical positivism is that 'The only true knowledge is scientific knowledge' -- I almost want to capitalise True and Knowledge there. 'Scientific' is basically defined as verifiable or falsifiable by experience. Whether you verify it or falsify it naturally depends on the type of statement it is: if I were to say that ( Read more... )

I am about to move an oversize bookcase down 9 floors. That's 18 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS.

Why?

Because it won't fit in the elevator, silly.