I just threw my wedding ring into the duck pond. I want you to know, Ms. Eley, that I will always love the woman I married. I had faith in her, and trust in her, and she justified that faith and trust many times over. She was there for the best times and the worst times of my life. She made me a better man.

You are not that woman. I don't know ( Read more... )

So I went to the Jonathan Coulton concert last week. With my dearest (
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 "Mr. Penn, before I met Jessica I was engaged to a young woman whose parents insisted that prior to our marriage we speak with a Jesuit. They wanted to convert me, and had in mind putting me under the fire of a large gun. The engagement was broken off later, for other reasons, but we did manage to see the Jesuit. We had lengthy discussions and ( Read more... )

This cartoon by A. Payne (who is awesome) pretty much sums up my time so far:


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Holy crap. I just got my first piece of fan art:

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"How do I know," asked Isaac Penn, "that you are not moved merely by vanity or curiosity. How do I know that you aren't here for the sake of the money in this family ( Read more... )

I’ve known kitanzi  for years. We’ve run into each other off and on, maybe a couple times a year, at various friends’ houses. She remembers that I asked her out the first time we met. It was at a party at Mark and Rachel’s, one where Dance Dance Revolution was the focal point, and given that I was younger then, I must have been either wired from silly ( Read more... )

Years and years ago, when we first saw Timecop, my friend Rich and I started making fun of what we perceived to be the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie pattern. Thin plot, excuse to start fighting, Van Damme gets more and more hurt and keeps fighting until things go ludicrous. We decided the ultimate distillation of the JCVD experience would be to ( Read more... )

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

- David Gelernter, Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology
(via the 37 Signals blog)

(Yes, so it's five days after New Year's.  Your point?)

2008, for the most part, sucked.  It sucked rigorously.  It sucked Dalmatians through a garden hose.  Were it not for certain events and people, it would trap light within its event horizon.

I can say with full sincerity that it was the worst year I've ever had.  I began the year deeply in love ( Read more... )