Today's educational topic is music.

To summarize: Music is good.

Now, I like music. I played instruments in elementary and high school. I sang with choirs. I enjoyed musicals. I even just got myself one of them iPod doohickies and used it to get music off of some tubes somewhere.

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What follows is a terrifying journey into madness, horror, and goblins. Well, ok, I'm making that all up. It's really just about a bunch of geeks playing games.

( Sid Meier, thou art a fiend most villainous! )

So there I was, wandering around southern Manhattan at 5:00 am, and a homeless guy is trying to sell us death sticks and crack...

( But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself here... (EDIT: Now with more pictures and tales!) )

So... it's a New Year. And like any New Year, it should start off with a bang.

( Well, alright, this was two weeks ago and all that. I'm slow. Sue me. )

Last night a game of cards was played.

( That's right, we can make even a harmless game of poker crude and tasteless... )

This weekend we had a LAN party. If you don't know what that means, don't even read this entry, and go watch this.

( Now that you've been suitably forewarned... )

( Cut Because I'm Telling Another Long Story )

The freedom to just up and take days off of work because you need some extra time is something I now realize I can't live without. If my job ever realized this, I'd be so completely owned, because I will never quit, even if I get demoted to official toilet scrubber. For 30+ paid vacation days a year, damn straight I'll scrub toilets ( Read more... )

Do not despair, loyal readers, for I have returned at long last from my annual odyssey to the epicenter of geekdom. Yes, I know, you didn't really miss me, and you don't want to know where I went, but I'm a professional jerk, and I'm going to tell you about it anyway. Gives my fingers exercise, at the least.

( Beware, for beyond this cut-tag lies pure geekdom. If you are cool, just clicking this link might burn you like God's holy fire. You have been forewarned. )

Never let it be said that I deny my geek ways. I play computer games. I've played RPG's. I have dice with more than six sides. Total geek. Right here.

This weekend was Ubercon III, a small but growing gaming convention near the Meadowlands. Far be it from me to pass up a nearby convention, so there I go.

Con details are boring, except for ( Read more... )