Honkbal.

Hey, one year to the day since the last time I posted.

What up, internet.

11 weeks to the marathon, Eleanor's a mercurial emotional hyperlexic weird awesome kid, Elly's pilot is about to have the finishing touches put on it, work is work, and I'm playing a bunch of Diablo 3 with Martin and Ayumi and it's a total flashback to ... 2001? 2002? Probably early 2002, with D2 with Martin and Kate and Craig ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/1362/

This is a nice place to go for some peace and quiet.

Still here, still reading infrequently, still fighting the power and still sticking it to the man ( Read more... )

Sup, internet. If you're reading this on an RSS feed you should probably login and see all the locked entries. Yeah, I'm talking to you. You know what I mean.

I did well in the Canada's Arctic 1-day, coming in 24th of 169. I whiffed on two questions: "Who was the British rear-admiral and former governor of Tasmania whose expedition was lost in Arctic Canada in 1845?" was Sir John Franklin, I went with Frobisher, several centuries off, and "This biennial multi-sport event started in 1970 with teams from ( Read more... )

A little over a year ago I ended up in a desk-sharing arrangement at work due to too many worker bees and not enough hives. (Just go with it.) As a result I worked from home 50% of the time, Tues/Thurs/alternate Fridays, sharing a desk with Stephan. In late August I switched projects and was requested to be in the office 100% of the time, so WFH ( Read more... )

2014 has a lot of games coming out ( Read more... )

LearnedLeague is starting up again on Tuesday with a minileague on Classical Music. I am going to get shellacked but I am going to learn something. And on the following Tuesday, a minileague on 90s Action Movies. I am going to place in the top half in that, but get crushed by someone who can yippie kie yay with the best of them, although the ( Read more... )