I don't know why I came here really - I don't have the money nor a drastic need for fun, nor am I passing the city's implicit test of WILL YOU DO WHAT IT TAKES FOR ADULT ENTERTAINMENT.

I just get so nervous.

You test yourself here in a way. That's why I wanted to come I guess. I just wish I were doing better at it. But as a kid in school I pretty ( Read more... )

All unpaid programming and system administration efforts are on hold until at least November 1, except in emergency cases. [Some folks reading this will be inconvenienced, and I apologize ( Read more... )

It would be called the Portland Credible and be printed (xeroxed) on both sides of a single letter-sized sheet. It would be published occasionally and contain articles about the psychogeography of the city ( Read more... )

Pie #1 is the Gas Huffer Pie, so named for being a grasshopper pie, only misarticulated. I started with a pecan pie recipe, but did the crust from here except with chocolate graham crackers (does anyone else remember the frozen premade chocolate graham crusts? They seem not to be sold anymore), then changed dark corn syrup and bourbon for light ( Read more... )

I decided not to get my customary large-ish coffee this morning, and even though I ended up relenting and having a smaller cup of the crappy work coffee, I can not stop thinking about... food.

Normally, lack of breakfast is not this big a problem! (And I don't feel hungry, even now. Just can't concentrate on account of wanting a pop tart.)

Pie experiment #1 successful... possibly too successful. Changing ratios may improve texture, but I'm nervous about changing it up right before game time ( Read more... )

'I'm a little bored of movies' - Peter Jackson

Had a great owlbear-game "playtest" on Sunday night (we never really played). Thanks to Ryan, Kelly, Matthew and Christen.

The game now contains the following rule: "On a roll of 1 through 5, upper management sends a disapproving email. On a 6, someone gets their arm ripped off."

The owlbear game still feels more like GMC than a "good project" as ( Read more... )

I keep having moments (like all the time) where I am sitting here in between other things to do, and I try to think of some project that it'd be productive or at least fun to work on, and I can't think of any. And then this momentary despair sets in. Nothing seems worth doing ( Read more... )

does it bother anyone else that the new "free and open source internet TV platform" is named "Democracy"?