Saturday started off with a massive kitchen-scrubbing session. Our counters and cabinets now look like maybe we aren’t cavemen.

ladymondegreen, akawil, and I met bugsybanana for vegetarian dim sum in Chinatown, a meal consisting chiefly of wheat gluten. Tasty wheat gluten, but still. Then we saw Napoleon Dynamite, a weird, charming movie about nerds, the assholes who torment ( Read more... )

Slim-Fast has announced that it’s dropping Whoopi Goldberg as a spokesperson after her comments about GW Bush:
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" in Goldberg's remarks at last Thursday's $US7.5 million fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York ( Read more... )

Went up to the Hoboken Historical Museum today, for some shorts from the Hudson County film festival. I walked, which almost was a mistake, since Hoboken’s north-south numbered blocks are two or three times as long as the Manhattan blocks I use as internal calibration when judging how long it’ll take to walk some number of blocks. I got there about ( Read more... )

Only played two games at GC-in-exile, but they were both new to me.

One was Medici, which joins Lunch Money and Grass on my list of games rendered far more frustrating than they need to be by bad graphic design. It managed to be a pretty good game anyway, and I’d probably say that even if I hadn’t won due to a really lucky combination of ( Read more... )

I played but a single game of San Juan at GC last night before a bunch of us went off to see Kill Bill Vol. 2. I wish I’d bought a ticket for bugsybanana; the movie does enough recapping that you can probably enjoy it without having seen the first. Lots of cool fights, lots of references to other movies, lots of melodramatic over-acting by a guy with a great ( Read more... )

Fell hard off the diet today. The company I’m freelancing for took all the Professional Services people out for dim sum in Chinatown. I passed up dim sum on Sunday, but hey, on someone else’s nickel, well.

There weren’t any comics out this week for me, but when I got home today I found the my copy of the first volume of the Prophecy Anthology had ( Read more... )

I hung around in lower Manhattan today and spent way too much money.

Big purchase #1 was a folding keyboard for my new Clié. I was aiming for the Stowaway, and I went to J&R figuring that they’d have a model I could check to see if the TJ37 fits in the keyboard that accepts the TJ35. They didn’t have any Stowaways, but they had Sony’s own folding ( Read more... )

Games Club was interrupted around midnight by a fire alarm, but not before I managed to win the Puerto Rico game with 55 points, my highest score yet. I spent most of the game paying attention to my money generation, which does seem to pay off better than playing a shipping game. (Last time I tried concentrating on shipping, I did horribly.) I even ( Read more... )

The office served pizza today, as a celebration for the completion of a particular project. I skimmed the cheese and toppings (meat and olives, yum!) off of two slices. Dominos, so the cheese was on the thin side, not very satisfying. I would up getting lunch anyway.

I’ve just finished Eleanor Arnason’s Ring of Swords. A good, thoughtful novel, ( Read more... )

bugsybanana came over from Games Club last night. Aside from Puerto Rico (with expansion buildings, which I don’t like since they’re unbalanced) I played just one game, Web of Power, a neat, simple placement-based boardgame that I’d like to play again now that I understand the advisors scoring.

Today Bugsy and I went out to see some movies. We found The ( Read more... )