I've been trying to work out how to word something and haven't quite found the correct way to phrase it. Here's the situation ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and I'd had a good nights sleep for the first time in a while. I got up and dressed and wondered downstairs to make myself some breakfast. I ran into Siz getting her own breakfast and we started talking about things, it became quite a serious conversation so we moved back upstairs, as we tended to do when things got like that ( Read more... )

I desperately need either two or (preferably) four people to take over this house next year. It is a truely epic house and has brought me a lot of happiness. It's significantly improved since we moved and the smallest room is bigger than some of the largest rooms in other houses I've been in. Seriously, this place is a steal, I'd have stayed here ( Read more... )

I've mentioned this paper before (Sato, 2010) but I've come across it again because it's going into my thesis under "Reasons that building predictive computer models can be pretty handy ( Read more... )

So I went back to the notes for that LARP thing, since I figured if it'll ever happen it'll be in the summer term. Since I (desperately) need something to distract me this evening I figured I could finish writing it. I have discovered what I can only assume to be a deliberate provocation from my past self ( Read more... )

Earlier today Charlie got me to thinking about series that, for some reason, feel the need to include a single musical episode. The Buffy musical episode comes to mind most readily, but I can think of a few others. I'm told that these episodes are always bad, which they most certainly are, but I also enjoy them a lot ( Read more... )

Did a quick simulation of my demons final battle, assuming that the players do nothing and skip town before the battle starts ( Read more... )

I just came across a paper discussing how similar friends are in terms of their opinions. Essentially it concluded that friends are more similar to each other than they are to random strangers, but are less similar to each other than they think they are. Apparently the reason for this is that when you infer your friends opinions discussions you ( Read more... )

So last time we got up to speed on the basics of the game, a few folks seemed interested so I figured I'd ramble on the subject a bit more. I'm also interested to hear what you fine folks have to say about the game. A few of my favouriate things ( Read more... )

Pokemon is one of my guilty little pleasures in life. I'm not sure what it says about me that I consider fetishism a regular pleasure and playing a childrens computer game to be a guilty pleasure, I try not to think about questions like that too much. Before I get distracted writing about what I intend to write about, I know this is a something ( Read more... )