Got my ticket. I'm going.

It was an impulse buy, really. I'd been waffling for quite some time, following a period of not wanting to go at all. But then I realized that quite a few people that I like are going, and then yesterday I had lunch with the guy who created the Colossus last year and the Temple of Gravity the year before that. We got ( Read more... )

a thrill runs up my spine
head swirls with warmth
mind fills with happiness
music is the perfect drug

Four days off. There's something just beautifully, terrible /wrong/ about taking off more days in a week than you spend working. I can't say I'm usually overworking, so it's not like it's a huge break from the norm, but I'm usually a pretty busy guy around the office, fully occupied with the project at hand. But recently I've been almost idle, ( Read more... )

I just came back from watching "Jarhead" with a friend. (We were going ( Read more... )

Has anyone else picked up Cory Doctorow's novels? I just started "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" last night. I was feeling pretty tired, not interested in reading anything serious -- and three hours later, I was feeling the same way, but still awake and many pages into the book. Not bad for a (legit) free download.

Oh, I forgot to mention: I went to a sweet little spot in the Sierras called Downieville last weekend. And OH MY GOD are the biking trails awesome. Quite seriously the best mountain biking I've ever done.

Photos are up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahflower04/

Out of curiosity... who's reading ( Read more... )

My desktop is resurrected! I had no idea what was wrong with it ( Read more... )

What a wonderful meditation on bushido and the ancient Japanese ways versus the invasion of Western forces. What a great story of a man discovering real meaning where he was missing a set of values he could believe in. A great film? Not by any stretch. But a great experience.

Now, I want to learn how to swordfight. :-)

Great column from Neal Stephenson on Star Wars as an example of how geeks and society relate today...

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