Last night I saw a commercial for a device called LapBand. It's an inflatable cuff that goes around the top part of the stomach. When it's inflated it puts pressure on your stomach so you feel full and stop eating. I started thinking about the psychological/emotional toll that something like that must take, not only admitting that you lack self ( Read more... )

The other day I bought Medal of Honor: Heroes II for the Wii to take advantage of my new zapper. It's a neat WWII FPS. There's an arcade mode, which is a rail shooter. You get to zip around France and blow away Nazis. Hannah just beat arcade mode. I couldn't be happier.

Imagine that you want to know all you can know about World War II. But the only sources of information you have are a copy of Newsweek from 2004 and a newspaper from the 1823. Also they're both in shreds. Also the shreds are in a dark room. Also you can only look into the room through a keyhole. Also there are tatters of other periodicals that have ( Read more... )

My giant-robots email is back up and running, many thanks to Paco. Who knew google had a mail server service?

My giant-robots email address is out of commission for a few days. Should have it back up in a little bit (thanks for the help Paco!). I'll post again when everything is good to go. Phone or AIM are probably the best way to get me till then.

Midnight Madness is an event (the first annual I believe) where a ton of stores on 57th street stay open till midnight and have crazy sales. Tonight I got:

• Free haircut
• My picture in the paper, receiving aforementioned haircut
• A page from a 1530 edition of "Froissart's Chronicles" for a dollar
• A pizza and two drinks for a total of $5.70

I also bought a ( Read more... )

Wednesday my stuff heads for Chicago in the wee hours of the morning. I'll be at Penguin pretty much all day if anyone wants to swing by and hang out.

I'm back! Hell of a trip. Lots of van time, lots of clastics, lots of carbonates. A fine mix of sedimentology and getting plastered every night for 15 days. I found a sweet 5 million year old shark's tooth, looked at ooids, managed to be one of the precious few who didn't puke the whole trip, killed a black widow (and may have brought more home ( Read more... )

NWSigil put up the Abyssal Market I made! It's a good thing school's about to end, for I am filled with a desire to build more planar places.

This is pretty neat.