Well, it's been 2.5 years since I posted, so it seems like an OK time to jot something down (it'd be too long for facebook, since I don't like long posts there, after all).  Also, my avatar reminds me that I still haven't located my Cthulhu plushie OR my dragon plushie since moving from CT.  Grr ( Read more... )

So, I got some games while in Albany on a spending splurge.  One of them has the wrong disc in the box.  Ok, it was the Saturday after Black Friday, honest mistake.  Then, upon digging around for the reciept, and finally finding it, I realize that they didn't give me the 10% MVP discount.  Less cool, to a certain extent, since I had handed the guy ( Read more... )

Let's start with Robert Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, since I've spent the longest on them recently.  Very good story, but very poorly executed.  That is to say, I really don't see how the man won Hugo awards and the like with a writing style like that.  Specifically, I found character introductions and developments to be distinctly lacking.  Random ( Read more... )

Ok, Portal was totally worth beating JUST for the end theme.  That being said, it took me a while to figure out how to beat the boss.  Mostly because I made progress, but THOUGHT I had done it in a way that didn't advance anything.  That probably makes no sense, and I shouldn't worry about about spoilers, being the last person on earth to play the ( Read more... )

There's an argument to be made for me being a rock god.  It's full of wholes, certainly, but it's an argument, to be sure.

In other news, we got our first decent IC_50 today!  Friggin awesome!

So, first off.  I've been playing Enchanted Arms, having bored myself of Mass Effect (which, while excellent in story, is fairly short, and there are only 3 or 4 actual side quests, but you spend 70% of the game solving them 30 times).  And, my main problem with Enchanted Arms, other than the fact that the manual does NOT outline the most important ( Read more... )

So, amidst the myriad messages offering me a larger penis, bigger breasts, greater memory capacity, accelerated lovelife and jobs working at Fortune 500 companies like McDonalds (none of which I'm all that interested in), I noticed one today that claims to have caught me naked on tape, and offers me a link to the relevant video ( Read more... )

After having had to go through multiple layers of redirection to get at XKCD today, I really expected there to be a comic update.  Alas, April 1, you win again!

Of course, if I just add dinosaur comics and Questionable Content to my regular daily read, I wouldn't have had this problem either.  le sigh!

So, my spycraft character can hit the broad side of a barn, but just barely.  He has a very nice pistol, but that whole aiming thing is an issue for him.  This means that in big firefights, he's not that terribly useful.

So what does he do in the big firefight?  Shoot the gas tanker a few times instead.  It's LIKE a fireball spell...

Good times.

So far, I (that is, my lab) have: 2 toasted monitors (that were on their way out anyways) and 2 toasted computers (one of which I don't care about in the least, but the other of which still had a measurable useful lifespan).  I haven't seen the first of those two computers, as it was our secretary's, and she sent it for repair immediately (which is ( Read more... )