For some reason, I've been all about the meatballs and marinara; no idea why. Got a footlong Subway sammich after clubbing tonight and it was just what I needed.

The Merc was jumping by the time I left, 'round 12:15ish ( Read more... )

I got into Richard Dawkins by way of rabid atheism, but he's actually a biologist by trade/training. And he gave a talk on the origin of life at the Edinburgh Book festival, covering some truly amazing subjects, from panspermia to exobiology to forms of life not based on carbon; it's a fascinating set of subjects ( Read more... )

There's actually a bunch of us talking about trying to make our own, GOOD version of Spore as an open-source project. I've volunteered my services as a 3D artist.

I'm both amused and hopeful; I'd give a left body-part if this were to actually be--forgive the unintentional pun--pulled off.

Spore: Uninstalled.

The game is coaster-ware.

After getting to the center of the galaxy and seeing the thorough anti-climax THAT was, not to mention how annoying the Grox are, I went and had a cathartic blowing-up of Earth (yes, that's in the game if you know where to look), then uninstalled the living shit out of it ( Read more... )

Here's why, put better--and faster, and funnier--than I ever could.

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Heh.

...Spore just isn't all that much fun.

I took a creature from Cell to Space, and found it to be just one big exercise in frustration.
It's one of those games where you're just constantly under attack. As much as I'd like it to be--and it was advertised as--a relaxing, sit-back-and-mess-around, sandbox game, it's not; you just never really get a ( Read more... )

So I got to the Spore line at about 10, and there was someone already there, but only one. Funny thing is, he reminded me so much of aladnsane that I almost called to him by name at first. Heh ( Read more... )

Happy Spore Day to my fellow Sporians.
...though I'd love to know whafuck they wuz thinkin', releasing Spore on a Sunday; the stores don't open until 11, and they didn't do a midnight release. That's just not right ( Read more... )

...but I'm headed to Olympia, looks like.

Flea and I have made arrangements for me to go to our state's capital to go see her next weekend. I'm both psyched and nervous, yanno? I think it'll be good, I'm pretty sure it'll be good...but...well, there's that nagging doubt over what happened last time. Still, this time around, I'll have access to a ( Read more... )

A little something I posted on the Spore webboard; I'm re-posting it here, cuz I find it terribly amusing.
Someone was talking about how they thought the name of this galaxy was fuckin' stupid, so I said:

"The Milky Way"? Yeah, s'kinna weird; I think anyone who hasn't grown up hearing it would think it very odd ( Read more... )