No time for personal computer use means I'll be updated very infrequently. Thanks to Google Docs, I can write a few words a day and come up with a viable journal entry in a week or two (the body of this current entry was last edited 5 days ago, says the Google).

( On with the reviews! House of Leaves, Blindsight, An Inconvenient Truth, Ice Age )

I haven't been doing much reading. Almost finished with Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Slowly working through Borges' Collected Fictions. Haven't yet wrapped up my William Hope Hodgson anthology. You'll mostly find video games below.
( Reviews ahoy! )

My Story Now post was linked to by Dev Purkayastha, owner of a "tumblelog" (I'm guessing that's a blog made of links with minor commentary) I discovered by way of his discovering mine: 10 by 10 room. I've been reading it and there's some great stuff on there! The latest D&D Communism in D&D post is, I think, my favorite ( Read more... )

Autohagiographical post ensuing ...

2005 was an amazing year, for many reasons. What I would consider most interesting to my slim readership:

• New Job: Started my career as a video game programmer. We've already shipped Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for GBA, with great sales (if Amazon is to be believed).
• Lifestyle ( Read more... )

ßehemoth: ß-max & Seppuku (Book, Peter Watts): A single book in two volumes1, ßehemoth ends what Starfish began and Maelstrom continued. Bisected, it still does the job, since Watts already wrote it in two distinct parts. The first half takes place at the bottom of the Atlantic, the setting that first gripped me in Starfish. The second is a trip ( Read more... )

I, Robot: (Film) A shallow action film revolving around Will Smith's robophobic cop and a great iMac-inspired robot. Smith can't carry the film by himself and his human companion seems more robotic than the iDroid. In fact, the poor robot is the most human of the bunch, though that doesn't take much effort. Don't even try listening to the ( Read more... )