I've been playing a LOT of Mass Effect multiplayer these last couple of weeks. It's surprisingly addictive. I'm still pretty terrible at it (though my quarian engineer is capable of taking the top spot points wise every once in a while), but it is fun ( Read more... )

The more I think about this the more angry I get. Yesterday I went to the school I work at to get things ready for when program opens next week (the trip was a total waste of time for reasons I won't go into here). While I was there I stopped to see how the garden the Kindergarten class planted in the spring was doing. It wasn't doing well. ( Read more... )

Given worrisome trends I feel like I had to exercise an extreme amount of restraint not to go off on certain posters at a particular comic community who felt like sharing their less than favorable thoughts on abortion. Oh, it was relevant to the comic scans, a character had an abortion (a rarity in and of itself in the comic world), and all things ( Read more... )

Woo, another snow day! A day to waste playing Mass Effect 2 and eating junk food...sounds wonderful ( Read more... )

I was a little surprised when I saw people at scans_daily ver 2.0 saying that their local comic shops don't do anything for 'Free Comic Book Day.' Here in London the four major shops (and one anime/manga shop) make a HUGE deal of it. They actually created a 'passport' that you get stamped as you visit each shop and at the end of the day the fully ( Read more... )