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My birthday was bad-ass, coco_b really went above-and-beyond to make me feel like my birthday lasted forever. She had already gotten me Rock Band earlier in the month, which we've been playing the hell out of. She also threw me a killer birthday party, where a bunch of people joined us for a bit of the game as well as the final "Greatest Action Movie ( Read more... )

Here's a quick highlight reel from the past few weeks. I'm sure I left out some important details, so please forgive me for the quick buzz:
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My life over the past two days has been consumed with Portal and watching baseball.  Portal is the bomb.  I walk to work now and think about how it would be awesome to shoot a portal there and there...  I even had portal dreams last night;  It has reached the Tetris level of puzzle greatness where it consumes most of my thoughts during the day.  I ( Read more... )

This weekend was the Brainwaves Festival over in Arlington, which was a ton of fun. Jon really did a great job pulling the whole thing together, and while I wasn't in to every artist, it was great seeing so many different bands. The highlight for me was The Dresden Dolls turning out a great set (even if they seemed out of place in the midst of ( Read more... )

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Last night, after some Quake IV with the coworkers, I gave the new game "The Ship" a spin. When I first heard the description of this game, the first thing that came to mind was the real-life game we played at CSH called "Death by Dagger". The jist of "Death by Dagger" is that each player is assigned a dagger with another player's name on it. To ( Read more... )

This was a crazy weekend... Friday night I went over equalize's place to watch the first World Cup games (Tivo delayed, of course). There was chili to be eaten, booze to be dranked, and friends to scream and yell with. Before lots of people got over we played some pass-around Worms. We had to play passaround because people had to wait until Sunday to ( Read more... )

Kingdon and Juice get some love in today's Democrat & Chronicle

Let's take a moment to thank notweak, who managed to send a million message undeliverable notifications today; one for each message he has saved in the past year or so (to the author of said message). I alone got 100+!

In other news, the Nintendo DS Zelda game looks badass.