I am amazed at how certain things lodge in my head and will not let go. If I see or hear a comment or remark and think it is wrong, stupid, or incomplete I have an almost irresistible urge to correct or argue with it. Naturally, this is extremely abrasive. I have tried to cut away at the cynical side of myself but still find it ridiculously hard ( Read more... )

Facebook does not quite suck yet, but it gets close sometimes. For awhile, it did suck. Then they finally let me block applications, so the suck lessened. The integration with things like Twitter is nice, but the clutter has skyrocketed. To make things easier on myself I went through and trimmed out "friends" that I have not talked to since I ( Read more... )

What happens with friends? I have had a long and consistent history of falling out of friendships slowly and with no other cause than lack of communication. The annoying part is that there is no moment of turning around and realizing that I have not spoken to someone in years; I know it is happening the entire time. But I give the time it takes ( Read more... )

Okay, so all the things that happened in Guatemala and all the stories are too much for one post. I figured what I can do is post packets of information for all of you in the ether and hopefully I will get most everything important out of the way ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I don't think most of you have a clue what the phrase "Dreaming in Whispers" means ( Read more... )

I finally broke down and purchased my own Xbox Live account. I was lucky enough to nab 'MrHen' for my gamertag. :D ( Read more... )

So, there is this guy I know that got his face on Reuters.

He's the one to the immediate left of who happened to be the focus of the picture. :P

Rock on to Austin, miss ya way out there! (though even if you weren't out there I'd still miss you because I'm, uh, elsewhere)

I just re-watched Solaris.

Before I get into how I liked it, I should probably explain how I happened upon this movie.

Pete Wall is a good friend and fellow CS graduate from Bethel and one day in the lab I noticed him with a Solaris DVD. I consider Pete to have good taste in movies and so I was curious and asked him if the film was good. He ( Read more... )

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Cyan Worlds is back. Which is cool. I think they weren't expecting us to get all scared... :P In any case based off of an interview I read with Rand Miller (co-founder) in the back of a strategy guide for Myst V (yes, I bought that... haven't installed it yet...) the Myst series is over for now and they have other things in mind. He hinted that ( Read more... )