Seriously. I'm not blogging here anymore. I'm blogging here. So if you find out by reading this post that I have blogged the latest playtest session, you're reading in the wrong place.

But go read the other post anyhow.

If you ordinarily follow my exploits here, you may be curious to learn that I am now doing my blogging at blog.ultrablamtacular.com.

That is all.

So, the other day, we took a family trip to the emergency room.

Both of my in-laws were ambulanced to the hospital. I was sitting in the waiting room trying to keep my son occupied by discussing the reasons for perspective (as an artistic technique).

This is the moment that the MS Elite Team calls me. Not, I might add, between 6 and 8 pm, as they had ( Read more... )

As everybody knows, the key to great comedy is timing.

I mean, there's the joke:

A: Ask me the secret to great comedy.

B: OK. What's the secret to great co--

A: TIMING!

So, I have to think that this is fucking hilarious.

What, you may ask, is so funny?

• My XBOX 360, which I purchased on launch day, has died.
• For the third time.
• Right before Guitar Hero 2 ( Read more... )

It's a DWYM!

OK. So it's not strictly a DWYM. But all I needed to see was "neural interface" and "mouse" attached to the same peripheral, and I was very, very afraid.

Both of the titular entities are in order.

First - Thanks to the Increasingly-Ill-Named Tweens for housesitting.

Second - Sorry to aforementioned IINTweens and also to
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The internet is is an enormously powerful tool. It can be used to great political, scientific, and social effect.

But it also does a great job of bringing together elements that are ordinarily left far apart.

Our theme today is kittens. Kittens and war.

First up, a classic. This is almost as good as the Penny Arcade spankalicious Strawberry Shortcake ( Read more... )

OK. I don't usually write about personal stuff. Mostly, I'm a political blogger, and that's deeply unsatisfying. But I wanted to put a post up to
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