Back in September, I bought a new computer ( Read more... )

On August 20th, Rifftrax (made up of former cast members from Mystery Science Theater 3000) is going to be doing a live spoofing of "Plan 9 From Outer Space," winner of the coveted "Worst Film Ever" award from The Golden Turkeys. It's a classic Ed Wood B-movie failboat cruise that I actually own a copy of on VHS, but this! This will be better ( Read more... )

Apparently, I can only go do things with my friends once a month. Last time I did anything was when Ryan was in town for his grandfather's funeral, a month ago. Then, this weekend, I did things again. I think I need to speed up my timetable, though, so I actually keep in touch with my friends.

SaturdayRyan flew in on Saturday, and he wanted to ( Read more... )

I've been tagged by fully half the people I know on Facebook and several people on LiveJournal, so I guess I might as well suck it up and follow the crowd. Here's 25 random things about me, which you may or may not have already known.

( Here's those 25 Things )

This past weekend, my family and I went down to Atlanta to see two exhibits that happened to be in town at the same time:  one on King Tut and the excavation of his tomb, the other on Shi-Huang Qi and his terracotta army ( Read more... )

I haven't felt well the past few days at all, despite the fact that I've been taking ginger supplements and have started drinking tea sweetened with ginger and honey. Apparently, it's a well-known home remedy for migraines, so I'm giving it a shot ( Read more... )

Someday, I will marry a woman and this will happen to her:


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I think I may have gotten a little too sucked into the world of Fallout 3.

"What brought about this revelation?" you may ask.
The first thing I thought when I saw this at ThinkGeek was "I could build a Pip-Boy with that."

I'm pretty sure I have a problem.

A while ago, I got the idea to get business cards printed up with my name, my e-mail address, and the title "Gentleman Adventurer." I haven't actually printed said cards yet, but it did give me the idea of making a gentleman adventurer costume for Halloween ( Read more... )

That's right. I'm one of those people now ( Read more... )