I was in Queens and then Long Island this past weekend for the wedding of my college friend Mike to his partner Josh. Mazel tov! Mostly it involved a lot of driving, playing Tales of the Arabian Nights with friends who live in the same complex as they do, and then a Sunday morning wedding where the power went off thanks to heavy winds. Wheeee ( Read more... )

So as all y'all know, I tend to gather a lot of half-baked ideas in text documents that never see the light of blog -- because they don't come to any sort of conclusive point, or I'm just not happy with them. Occasionally I put them all in a post and air them.

I was going to do that here, but fuck, there are a lot of them. So let's break it down ( Read more... )

I don't need to tell all y'all that this past weekend was Festival of the LARPs. As usual, it was lovely and it felt like home - even with the influx of many new people, including RPI and Harvard regulars that are rarely seen there ( Read more... )

But it is in bullet form ( Read more... )

Some silly, some serious things today:

1. Mobile Usability for Cats: Essential Design Principles for Felines. By Jakob Nielsen. Favorite quote: "Given the average cat's paw size, we recommend tap target zones of at least 3 cm (slightly larger than one inch), although a Maine Coon might need more due to their unbelievably enormous mitts."

2. ( Read more... )

This is the third LJ post I've written today, but the only one I decided to post >.< Go figure ( Read more... )

1. I have an inbox full of emails (and LJ comment notifications) from excellent friends I need to reply to.

2. The Festival run of Cracks has a goodly number of signups after the first round--I just need more menfolk! (Eight more, in fact. Six, at minimum).

3. Trying out a new (to me, at least) restaurant in the Leominster area, Rye & Thyme, with ( Read more... )

I am feeling incredibly unmotivated to make my usual detailed con report. Maybe I'll feel more motivated later, but in the meantime, you get bullet points ( Read more... )

... was as awesome as RPI events usually are. Also rather strange.

Friday night, I ran Cracks. It went very well, despite the amount of stress leading up to it, and last minute drops and threaten-to-drops and printer snafus. Many thanks go out in particular to offside7, who had played in the first run as Noima, but ended up filling in as Thalela ( Read more... )

I've discovered what the bugs invading my house--the ones I've been calling "stink bugs"--really are. They're Geonosians!

... nah, actually, they're Western conifer seed bugs, Leptoglossus occidentalis. Apparently they've been having a banner year in New England, even though they're originally--as the name suggests--from the West Coast. ( Read more... )