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Dinner with the parents, overnighting in Boston on their way north from a Florida trip. Surprised and dismayed to learn that my mother, who turns 80 next year, is crossing over from battiness to dementia. This came out not in explanation but in demonstration, apparent to everyone else in the room -- including my father, who looked on, saying ( Read more... ) -
10 here.
I'm a little late with this, but it's not like a have a firm date on it, so: Right around now is the tenth anniversary of my coming to the Boston area to live. I've lived in five homes over those ten years, four of them in western Somerville.
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Hadean Lands funding goes bonkos
So yeah, Andy's thing has gone bonkers. It's on the front page of Kickstarter, where it's reported as "185% funded". Wouldn't be shocked if that gets to 200% before the week's over, or if it's at 300% by the end of the month.
Blogs with big mainstream-geek/gamer readerships like MetaFilter and Rock Paper Shotgun have started to pick this up as a ( Read more... ) -
Zarf's kickstarter
Howdy y'all.
My friend and colleague Andy "Zarf" Plotkin (radiotelescope to you LJ faithful) has decided to chase his dream to become a full-time interactive fiction author, starting with Hadean Lands, a new, feature-length text game that he plans to sell in the iOS App Store (for starters).
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The Warbler's Nest
Hello friends,
I am pleased to announce that the 16th annual Interactive Fiction competition is now underway, and that I have an entry in it: a short work of horror fiction called The Warbler's NestCompetition judging is open to all, so if you have an interest in (or a curiosity about) interactive text games, I'd very much appreciate it if you ( Read more... ) -
POX
So apparently the "sunburned" feeling in my right arm was in fact the onset of shingles. They started poking their little heads up through the fertile soil of my right hand on Thursday, and are now in full bloom, all over my fingers and elbow. I've been whacking at them with enormous antiviral pills since Friday, after visiting the doctor yet again ( Read more... ) -
Re-armed yuk yuk
Doc ran battery of tests, and localized the pain source to my elbow. I was a little skeptical, but I must admit that it was the only place that actively hurt while we wrung out my whole armal region, from shoulder to wrist. And it hurt rather a lot.
He pronounced it as lateral something-or-other (feel dumb for not writing it down now), took X-rays ( Read more... ) -
Cause and effect!
(Tyiping this with left hand only.)
Bless all of you, and especially cnoocy for coming down hardest on forbidding me to type or mouse with my ouchy hand until I talk to a doctor. I have spent the last six hours playing xbox games, then board games, then Wii Fit. Arm still feels weird, but the pain is already mostly gone! Not gulping pain pills any more ( Read more... ) -
Ask Dr. LJ (srsly)
So something went b'doink in a non-TMI region of my body. Coincidentally, I have a physical coming up in a couple of weeks. I am looking for confirmation that it's OK to wait for that, or if I should run-not-walk to the doctor's office to escalate this ( Read more... ) -
Lonely dudes
I find the depiction of men crying due to loneliness deeply upsetting, even when it's not really meant to upset. Memories from three different media:
• My trigger for thinking about this is last panel in this set of comic strips. It's meant to be darkly funny, but I find it heartbreaking ( Read more... )