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One thing I have done better at in the last few months is keeping to schedules. The first time I ever really tried to set one for myself was...probably 1997 or so, when I was having trouble staying focused in college and feeling like I was wasting a lot of time. So I tried to plot out my day, hour for hour, in order to get the most out of it. ( Read more... )

Near the end of this past semester, I said that my goal for the summer was to make major progress on writing something that would get published. My two options were an expanded version of the paper I turned in for my Philosophy of Theology class, and a novel whose major plot points and characters had been in my head for close to fifteen years, and ( Read more... )

Going to see movies at the theater is something I've more or less cut out of my life. For one thing, the films themselves generally leave me with that "I paid $10 for this feeling?" But worse yet, I generally pay that $10 not only to see a movie that I could have waited to see later for half the price, but to see it with a theater full of people ( Read more... )

I just finished recording the basic tracks for a new song, and I'm so excited that I wish it were all mixed and ready to play for people right now. I like it so much, I'm almost willing to just make an MP3 of it in its totally unmixed state and share it with the world.

But then people would tear it apart and ruin all my joy. So I shall wait.

I've more or less ceased updating my old faithful LiveJournal thanks to the massive amounts of writing I'm doing for school these days, and the fact that in my spare time I'm writing even more for other blogs. But those blogs are specialized, and don't have room for the particular political thoughts I want to get off my chest at the moment.

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Yes, this is the lamest possible topic for a post. Deal with it. Really, these are just things I have been thinking I need to do for a while, and making them public might actually guilt me into doing them.

1. Keep up with reading for my classes. I always start and end the semester on a good note with this, but I tend to get off track after the first ( Read more... )

I wrote before in a friends-only entry about my disdain for Ron Paul, and his campaign founded on the deeply problematic libertarian philosophy. I made the entry friends-only, because I did not want to run the risk of being attacked with the sort of nonsense Paul supporters tend to heap upon anyone who dares disagree with their hero. But now that ( Read more... )

I finally got a chance to play with the Orange Box this week, and I have to say that, aside from its length, I see no reason Portal shouldn't be considered a game of the year candidate. It's easily the most fun I've had playing a game this year, the writing is definitely the funniest and possibly the best I've ever encountered in a game, and for a ( Read more... )