Okay, rules ( Read more... )

When leaving Australia I had several countdown consumable items in stock; Shampoo, toothpaste, cookies, alchohol. It became a sort of race. Though at times it seemed like the shampoo had been the predictor all along. Leaving vancouver it was bar soap and energy bars. The one countdown item I have this time is pickles. There are two pickles left... ( Read more... )

Okay, So I just got back from a first date with a like minded atheist. I cannot believe how opposite we are. She's self admittedly not very technologically hip. When we sat down she said, "I spied on you on the internet." Anyone I know would have said, "I googled you." It's not really spying if it's public knowledge. I mean, if she found any of the ( Read more... )

Fact of the day:
The word "agoraphobia" is an English adoption of the Greek words agora (αγορά) and phobos (φόβος), literally translated as "a fear of the marketplace". This translation is the reason for the common misconception that agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces, and is not clinically accurate.

I live in suburbia. I am surrounded by malls. ( Read more... )

Three days at work so far. Extremely disappointed in the tools. Now I know why companies refuse to show the tools before hiring people. It isn't because it reveals trade sekrits...it's because the smart ones will run the other way. The irony being that if they made the tools easy for stupid people, smart people would want to use them because they' ( Read more... )

Okay, shock and surprise...I neglected to post about the past few months saga of being layed off, interviewing at numerous companies and then subsequent offer and acceptance of a new position. Not only that, but I am now moving to Washington D.C. I've received a raise not only in number of dollars, but in currency as well (for as long as that is ( Read more... )

Horror as a genre is pretty weak for me. I can only take so much "boo!" before it gets old, and the older I get, the less tolerance I have for empty, baseless, poorly written scare factor props. After Bioshock was released I had hopes that the industry on the whole was figuring things out and that we could look forward to a new crop of higher ( Read more... )

I recently purchased a PS3. After many months of consideration and patiently waiting for the verdicts to roll in, the deciding factors were blu-ray, quiet, and not having a ring of death. Many friends report their xboxes in quite good health and have never seen red. I'm glad to hear it, though worrying that it might happen was enough of a deterrant ( Read more... )

I decided this evening that as consolation for a crappy day at work and in celebration of reasonable weather that I'd walk someplace new for dinner. I ended up walking up to Granville street and hitting a place called WINGS. That's pretty self explanatory. The sign offered EIGHTEEN FLAVORS!!! Anything with three exclamation points and all capitals ( Read more... )

Okay, with the release of this game the era of "video games can't be art" is completely done. Sorry, if you don't know how to properly experience this game as art, it's not the arts fault, nor is it the artists. If you think that sitting down in a poorly thought out environment with random distractions is a proper way to evaluate it, then you are ( Read more... )