Two days off of school because of the weather. Pretty remarkable.

I feel like I should be worried, but inside my third floor apartment I don't really feel too threatened. Sadly some people will likely die from the chaos. I sort of have to keep that in mind, lest I think "how cool".

I see kittenwench asked for political commentary. So here are the basics ( Read more... )

The thing that keeps striking me about Mitt Romney's 47% comment isn't that it's motivated by awful ideas ( Read more... )

Unexpected downtime today. I'm only working on two games, and I only have real work I have to do on one of them. Meeting got pushed to Sunday. My team is down two people (out of five), so we're having a bit rough of a time in general. Add to that the fact that this particular group has $#%#% dynamics and it makes making a playable game (already an ( Read more... )

School continues to be both really interesting and really challenging. I would warn anyone considering a Masters degree that the amount of work they expect in no way resembles an undergraduate program. I think that I am at least as busy as when I was working political campaigns from 9 to 5. A little less exhausted, but that's mostly because my ( Read more... )

I saw this sign in the subway the other day. It was quite confusing. Any explanations?


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I made my first game today! Not very exciting as a game, but still ( Read more... )

Had the introduction-to-school stuff today. It's kinda wild doing this at my age. But they did a good job of hooking me in the welcome stuff, and making me feel a little less like "Ack! I don't know how to do anything ( Read more... )

If you can't make sense of the various swing state polls, try to follow this simplified logic. If Obama wins Ohio and Virginia, he wins. There's no reasonable scenario which allows Romney to win while losing those two states. If Obama wins Ohio or Virginia, he still very likely (more than a 95% chance, in my estimation) wins ( Read more... )

"Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe". - Rakim

So, now a lot of people are talking about Romney's taxes; specifically, that he won't release them to the public. Even Republicans are starting to line up to tell him to do so ( Read more... )