If one peruses video/computer game reviews, one frequent complaint is tied to game brevity: If a game only has four hours (or so) of gameplay, reviews will generally present that information as if it were a bad thing ( Read more... )

As a long-time fan of Chad Underkoffler, I was going to enter the Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies Logo Contest. This entails using their "original" logo in some new and creative fashion.

Unfortunately, while perusing my old records for inspiration, imagine my surprise when I discovered that this logo isn't so original after all!


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Well, I'm doing what I can to uphold my Lenten vows (which, as you may recall, centered around veganism). So how'm I doing ( Read more... )

Lent is coming up in a few days, and this year I'll be going a bit "hardcore" in my ol' sacrificial garb. I'm giving up the usual sweets (which I tend to define fairly broadly), but I've also decided to go vegan for the duration. It certainly gets me contemplative, and maybe I'll lose a bit of weight ( Read more... )

Quoting CNN.com's front page:

Lawmakers said they had resolved the differences between the House and Senate versions of a $789 economic stimulus bill...

I don't think that's going to help very much...

According to Comic Book Resources, Chris Claremont is writing a new out-of-continuity X-Men series set after 1991's X-Men Volume 2 #3 (Claremont's last issue of his old run).

(Fans of the X-Men remember, of course, that that X-Men #1-3 was the storyline where . . . um . . . I think there was an asteroid thing? Something about Magneto dying? Wasn ( Read more... )

Being proficient with keyboard shortcuts, I am many times more efficient than those who mouse-click through life. (Whenever I was new in an office job, people were always amazed that I could accomplish a task that took them 5-10 minutes in, literally, 30 seconds. "How did you manage to select those paragraphs, delete them, paste them to the ( Read more... )

Sam! Knock knock!

Me: Who's there?

Sam! A pineapple! [Sam! laughs uproariously.]

* * *

Sam! Knock knock!

Me: Who's there?

Sam! Chicken nuggets! [Sam! laughs uproariously.]

* * *

[Repeat for every noun Sam! can think of]

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Still, he's funnier than any Eddie Murphy movie made in the past 10 years.

The first rule of Fight Village is, you do not talk about Fight Village.

The second rule of Fight Village is, you do not talk about Fight Village ( Read more... )

The missus and I drove 15 hours yesterday from Indianapolis to Dallas, visiting her family here and then going on to Austin ( Read more... )