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Out of Touch
I'm moving in to a new apartment and grad school starts tomorrow. Yay ( Read more... ) -
Brainstorming
I'm doing some brainstorming for writing a story. I decided to come at it from a different direction this time, by building a glossary of concepts, places, people, titles, etc. instead of trying to define the geography or the characters themselves. This lets me build the world before I start trying to write in it, to understand where the world ( Read more... ) -
Father's Day
I'd forgotten today was Father's Day until someone reminded me a few minutes ago. That sounds really shitty, and in a way it is, but I've got a decent excuse. Those of you who don't know me may not know that my father passed away almost two years ago on 26 July 2005. His name was Jimmy Ray Ezell, he's the one who taught me about computers but, ( Read more... ) -
Gun Nuts
AJC post about a proposal for gun control.
I posted that link as an example of just how extreme the opinions of some people in this country seem to be regarding gun control. (Look for Brent if you're trying to find my comments.) On grounds of common sense and tactics, it makes no sense for heavy automatic weapons (crew-served weapons, such as an ( Read more... ) -
First Exalted Run
Well, tonight I ran my first session of Exalted, something I've been waiting to do for a while. A chat game just came together and we ran with it ( Read more... ) -
Bush now complying with FISA
The Bush Administration has announced that it will now be conducting wiretapping by getting warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, reversing its previous stance on the Terrorist Surveillance Program. As a result, they are now actually complying with the terms of the 1979 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( Read more... ) -
Democrats Win House and Senate
Well, this is an interesting if predictable outcome. This vote was as much a commentary on Bush as it was the legislators ( Read more... ) -
Too many people...
I just drove across the Atlanta area this morning, from Snellville to Carrollton (that's a bit northeast of Stone Mountain to about ten miles short of the Alabama line, for those not from the area). I got up at 5:45, was on the road at 6. At 6:15 am, US Highway 78 was already showing heavy traffic. Not slow, mind you, but quite heavy ( Read more... ) -
Firefox 2.0 released
Firefox 2.0's been released in case no one saw it. I've got it running. Seems stable. Of course, I don't really use any add-ons, so there's not much for it to break, but still. Anyway, see you around.
(Also, you're going to have to download it by hand; for some reason, the auto-updater isn't catching it. Go to www.getfirefox.com to get it.) -
Tetris
I have made an important discovery regarding the One True Nature of Tetris. (Yes, I play Tetris. My preferred flavor is LTris on Debian Linux, what's yours ( Read more... )