I can actually keep up writing in here! See?

I'm going to talk about the projects I'm currently working on, which means I'm going to start by listing the projects I'm currently working on, and a little about them. This is necessarily both non-exhaustive and overly-broad because I'm sure to forget something I'm thinking about but also probably ( Read more... )

I've been thinking that I want to have a journal again. Even if no one reads it, which, I expect no one will read this. I'm even making it public because I doubt it even matters ( Read more... )

Time for my yearly post about Christmas.

Some people reading this will probably want to get me Christmas presents, although you don't have to. I'd really prefer that you donate to a charity instead: Child's Play, the Wikimedia Foundation, Stop TB, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are all ones I donate to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I learned about a site called Tip4Commit (I'm not linking to them). I learned about them from a thread on Hacker News complaining about them. Here's how it works ( Read more... )

There's a relevant Penny Arcade about the "Mega Man 9 Effect," which is pretty much how I felt after my first game of Age of Wonders 3 last night ( Read more... )

- Had my check card canceled, because of bullshit. I'll be able to fix it tomorrow, likely by switching banks, because this isn't the first time ( Read more... )

Books are heavy.

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Unpacked in the house.

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Well, we live in the new house now. Cassie's father came yesterday with his truck, and we moved almost all the big stuff (two things we forgot about, but we can get those later). We moved the bed, the couch, the dining room table, and some more games. After he left we went back for more car-sized things. We stayed here last night, then today got a ( Read more... )

I sort of went nuts on eBay the other day and ordered a few slide rules. Today the first ones came in: a K&E "beginner's slide rule" with only four scales (A, B, C, and D), and another little pocket one with some trig scales, but no folded scales and broken indicator. I realized these were in pretty bad shape when I bought them, but it was $5 for ( Read more... )