First off, I should mention that I volunteer as a driver for RightRides, a group that provides free rides home to women, LGBTQ, and gender-queer individuals on Friday and Saturday nights. The goal is the elimination of gender-, orientation-, and sex-based violence. This Sunday, at the Mercer Street Babeland, there will be a performance of The ( Read more... )

Anyone else playing Monopoly City Streets? I'm "XODER83" on there, and I'd love to get a friend or two.

A friend is building a game for XBox 360 Live Indie Games market that he's calling Zomband. It's a classic rogue-like adventure game (like angband, etc.) with Zombies. His development company is The Hip Gamer, and he's raising development funding at Kickstarter. It looks like it's going to be really interesting. If you think so too, toss some bucks ( Read more... )

It is a ring made of a quarter. Specifically a 2001 New York State quarter. Erin got it for me as a birthday present, but I've been wearing it kinda as an engagement ring. I just want to get something straight: women wear such rings on their left ring finger, right? This is the same for wedding bands, right? Don't men wear the latter on their right ( Read more... )

Below is a very happy sight. NJTransit turns off signal lights when there are no trains around. So it is very nice to see the lights come on at 1130, telling you that you're about to head home ( Read more... )

Isn't it lovely? Found a few months ago in Penn Station ( Read more... )

I've got some LED lights that I got at Ikea a few weeks ago. They provide nice, diffuse lighting at very low power in a variety of colors. They're really handy as a sort of night light, so Erin doesn't have to turn on the harsh overhead light to come to bed ( Read more... )

Erin saw these at Ikea and said they reminded her of some tentacle monster. I don't remember which one ( Read more... )

Approved for Zipcar! Will have the card in 3-7 days.

One more cool thing about today: my license turns 1 year old, so I'm going to apply for ZipCar!