Okay, no, I'm not really much of a Vegas person. It's such a bizarre place, all bright lights and flashy shows and alternate realities (visit Paris, visit Venice, visit Rome, watch a pirate ship sink, all without leaving the Vegas Strip), but there's a heavy feeling of despair in the air. Particularly at the airport; LAS is the grimmest airport I' ( Read more... )

Yikes. Looking back I'm really not sure where the year has gone. The last month or so has been fairly dreadful - my grandpa has been very ill (we canceled Thanksgiving and we're probably canceling Christmas, too, because of it), I was down with the flu for what seemed like ever, I had a trip to California for work, I've spent a heck of a lot of ( Read more... )

People have incredibly strong feelings about Doctor Who, and I should know, because I am a person myself (or at least I think I am) and a fan of Doctor Who. I've watched more episodes than I can give an immediate account of, I've heard more of the audio plays than I haven't, I read books (new and old) and comics (new and old). I participate in a ( Read more... )

So I am probably maybe perhaps likely going to send out some kind of holiday card. It will probably maybe perhaps be out this month. Anyone who knows me will know just how cheerfully festive I am but, well, tis the season, right? If you'd like a card, please comment here with a mailing address and you shall receive. (Comments screened ( Read more... )

( Curiosity, depression, and the odd politics of hope. )

THE SORTING HAT MEME
// MY THREAD!

There is an on/off switch somewhere in my brain that I seem to have absolutely no control over. I have stopped caring, entirely, about a tremendous number of things that used to be very important to me. Maybe I'll start again and maybe I won't -- my own desires and interests are entirely mysterious, even to me. In the meanwhile, everything is cold ( Read more... )

Dragon*Con is officially over and it's been... I'll just say interesting. Some good interesting, some bad interesting, but I'll hit the highlights and endevour to spend the rest of the year forgetting the rest. (It's a necessity, or else I'll never go to a con again. Which I've already said I won't, but there's plenty of time to talk myself back ( Read more... )

I’ve been working on the Joystiq network (currently comprising Big Download, Joystiq, Massively, and WoW.com) for four and a half years now, back when WoW.com was WoW Insider and we got as much traffic in a month as we now do in a day. (For laughs, check out my first post on the site, about patch 1.10.) In my time on the network, I’ve written ( Read more... )

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