I have come in dead last in four out of four games at the game foo tonight. (I am counting one instance of beating a newbie employing a random non-strategy as the moral equivalent of dead last.) You'd think I'd never played a game before. Or that the people I am playing with are all very good gamers, but it's lazier to blame oneself about these ( Read more... )

A midsummer reminder to my fellow humans:

No matter who you are, or what you look like, carpenter crack really and truly does not become you.

Gave "Curb Your Enthusiam" another shot. Sorry, it's just not working out. I hate saying something like "It's like Seinfeld except everyone is George (and also rich)," but that really is the best description. People act predictably badly, get their comeuppance, everyone's miserable in the end. A few funny moments, but mostly it's the big eh. Three ( Read more... )