If I'm trying to work at my desk, and a cat jumps on the desk -- you know, to stomp around, head-butt my hands and walk back and forth in front of the screen -- then I pick up the cat, hold it like a baby, and do some squats. Repeat until cat voluntarily leaves the room :3

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So late this past summer, I had a hard drive fail on me. This was pretty upsetting -- I had all of my *code* checked in on github, but it still had a lot of files on it that I didn't want to lose, so I took it to one of those data recovery places, and they were able to get the files off of it. It was kind of expensive and something of a hassle, but ( Read more... )

So it seemed like a good time to start a new blog. I used to journal all the time over on LJ (oniugnip), but somehow got out of the habit of that. My friends have almost all trickled away from LJ, and it's kind of sad ( Read more... )

You know what's undignified? Human bodies ( Read more... )

Last weekend, Martin and I headed up to Seattle for the fightgames tournament!

I wrote about it at length on my tumblr (Day 1, Day 2), but the upshot is that we had a great time, and that Martin is the raddest for coming along and being supportive and asking questions. I think he finds this whole fighting games community hullabaloo fairly ( Read more... )

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My maternal grandfather, Stan Shaver (jr), who usually went by Granstan (his decision, and he sometimes spelled it with the camel-case!) passed away this morning ( Read more... )

Feb 2015: a young man of Jewish extraction hops across the ocean with his German coworkers to meet up with their Japanese coworkers, in Tokyo. They will discuss various planned improvements to a computer program capable of translating between every single human language that has more than 100 million speakers ( Read more... )

I have kind of a lot of miscellaneous feelings, and maybe writing about them will help sort them out. Or maybe I'll just free-associate for a while ( Read more... )

Hey, I should write here more often ( Read more... )