I just listened to a podcast where a role-playing game publisher talked about RPGs' lousy reputation with the mainstream public. He cited a time he was at a concert trying to chat up a lady: when he said he published role-playing games, she expressed curiosity about what that meant. He said, "You know, like Dungeons and Dragons!" and she turned and ( Read more... )

I had two very good meetings, in two very different roles - in one I was like arr I am a good leader and in the other I was like arr I am worth what I'm paidBought two books. One is "How to Start a Business in Massachusetts" by O'Neill and Warda. Ha ha, horse before the cart, yes, but it's a smartly written summary and I've already learned a lot. I ( Read more... )

I am having a good day.

In the wee hours this morning I played two games of Tic Tac Toe against a bot with the Volity web client. The application is not in a state where anyone other than me can use it, but we have nonetheless acheived target depth. It's all lateral digging from here. I IMed radiotelescope around 1a.m. to share the moment. He said "WTF, mid- ( Read more... )

So the year is half-over. Well, it had to happen eventually. Let's take inventory, pillar-style.

Volity Started ramping up in late March and really went into overdrive two months later when I had a conversation with daerr about how the web client ought to work. I've been working on that by myself since then - about one month, now - which is great, ( Read more... )

It has been a full weekend ( Read more... )

Wednesday classicaljunkie and I went to Six Flags. It was weird and nobody had any fun. Basically, her approach to amusement parks is to ride the 500-foot coasters over and over until she can't walk anymore. Mine is to go on the baby rides with my eyes squeezed shut while I go FUCKFUCKSHITCOCKNONOAAAAAAAAAAA, and then sit for a while to recover. A basic ( Read more... )

I went into last weekend feeling really weird and doomed and came out of it... well I guess I still feel doomed but at least it's the good kind.

Saturday was a day for conversations. I had a conversation with daerr about the Volity web client, and later had another with classicaljunkie about the nature and direction of our relationship. I now feel on much better ( Read more... )

The super-cheap Apple refurbs that keimel linked to a while ago seem to be long gone, sadly. So with that temptation gone, I have commenced to beat up on my debt in earnest, laying $2,200 into it just now. Contrary to initial plans, I split this first payment across my credit card and personal debts. The latter involves a significantly larger total, and ( Read more... )

Currently, the most obvious classicaljunkie-enabled change in my behavior is that I no longer have any inhibitions about chugging Pepto Bismol straight from the bottle.

Woke up this morning with a terrible headache. Three CVS-brand Excederin-clones and a half-hour nap later it's just barely contained. I think I may have caught it from dictator555, who was also having similar pain earlier, but are there illnesses whose only symptom is a headache? I don't really get them all that often anymore, and it's not like it's from ( Read more... )