So as you may know, for the past almost 2 years I've been involved in interactive fiction (IF), aka text adventures. I'm the organizer for a monthly meetup (next meeting is Monday, feel free to come if you want to see what this is all about), where we usually get 8-12 people showing up to talk about this topic for a while. We even host a place ( Read more... )

We're paring down some of our book collections. Please comment here to claim any or all of these books. Paperback unless otherwise specified. HC = hardcover, ARC = advance reading copy. First come, first served (unless any of these books used to belong, in whole or in part, to someone else, in which case that someone else gets first dibs on those ( Read more... )

http://www.bostonskillshare.org/2010/workshops

http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/

Anyone east of Weston should be boiling their water before drinking it for now, apparently.

Quick note to say that PAX was very good. I spent almost all of my time at the Interactive Fiction (IF) Hospitality Suite. Lots of people talking about IF, lots of ideas and energy generated, and I even made an IF game. I hope that a lot will come out of the IF community because of this, and I'm also personally more motivated to start working on a ( Read more... )

My big brother would have been 35 today.

Having dinner with my sister tonight, and I'm most excited about seeing my niece.

Got an email from NSTAR, and we've now signed up to get 100% of our electricity from wind power. There's a surcharge, but it comes out to around $2 per month. I'm not sure how much this does for the environment or for our "dependence on foreign oil", but it at least feels like something.

Did I lend these comics out to anyone? It's a set of 3 hardbound books, the story of this superhero kid and his superhero dad. I had the first three hardbound omnibus collections, and I recently bought the fourth one, but then discovered that I couldn't find the first three. I checked with two people I might have loaned them to wihtout any luck.

Back home from 2 weeks in Russia with my bride. We hung out with her family, saw Moscow, and spent some time at the dacha (country house). It's good to be home, but it's a little weird. I'm not used to being away so long (I'm not sure when the last time was that I was away for this long). Everything is familiar, but it will take some getting used ( Read more... )

I have an extra medium clear Icehouse piece and am missing a small black Icehouse piece. I don't suppose someone has the opposite problem?