The most revealing comment of the previous week:

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."

The number in question? Here's a hint: it starts with a seven, and ends with some zeroes.

I am eating purple mashed potatoes. Because that pretty little bag of mixed color potatoes? Those purple-skinned ones included in the mix? They're not just purple-skinned, it turns out.

I am also eating leftover homemade (not by me) fried chicken and Brussels sprouts and a bottle of Full Sail Amber, but I wasn't going to mention those, since their ( Read more... )

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Ok, so aside from the journey of self-re-discovery, how was Burning Man?

Artistic as always. For execution my favorite was the Harmony: a simple dome, unlit from the outside, with a spectacular arrangement of lights and flourescent elements inside, and 6 homemade stringed instruments all wired to amplifiers. Sitting there, conversing with friends ( Read more... )

So I got back from Burning Man...

... and immediately failed to post about it, despite the fact that I felt like I couldn't post anything else until I did. There's method to that madness, though.

( You see, I came back as a different person. )

I've got a ton of pre-playa food shopping to do, and most of my packing to do tonight. So naturally it falls to me to represent our dev group at a recruiting event here at our office campus today. From 5 to 8 my job is to be on the other end of networking, the guy meeting a different person every 5 minutes and trying to judge their hireworthiness ( Read more... )

The Star Trek Experience is closing on September 1st. I am seriously thinking about how to squeeze in a quick trip to Vegas before the playa.

... and anti-inflammatory cream

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Huh, turns out that I've read the winner of the Best Novel Hugo before it won the award for once. Which means it's a good time to mention that I read it and loved it.


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Two new amusements

Braid is genius. It singlehandedly puts paid to the notion that more powerful hardware is increasing the A/V experience at the expense of gameplay. The core game mechanic is bone-simple, but probably requires a fairly powerful engine to really work. Or maybe it just feels that way? The puzzles, though really quite small, have ( Read more... )