There are a number of objects on my desk. Chief among their number, set aside from everything else on the desk, in a neat little clearing all of their own, are my wallet and comb ( Read more... )

As most who read this know, I am a veteran fan of webcomics- I started in about 10th grade, reading Megatokyo, and branched out from there. (One of the few memories that I recall very vividly from that period involves being in a computer lab reading Megatokyo with Greg and Scott. I tripped over my bag. For some reason this is imprinted very firmly ( Read more... )

First, it seems awfully strange that the convention of indicating the content of a written work by entitling it, 'On X' seems to have fallen from favour recently. Most books on X are simply entitled 'X', or some variant therof. This, however, is tangential to my main point ( Read more... )

I love my dreams ( Read more... )

Tonight I discovered that the world is a strange and wonderful place.

Ironclad matchup vs. Khador to follow soon.

There's a story in Mark Rosewater's column archive, where in the top level of a Pro Tour or Worlds or some such (I can't remember which) there was a guy who was about to swing for the win- if he played his combat trick. He thought his opponent might have some trick in hand, and so, being all sneaky, he asked his opponent, 'Do you have any fast ( Read more... )

I just managed to cross the horror threshold of the entire upstairs suite. I am SO GOOD at this game!

I read a story tonight, a romantic story. The ending was less than satisfactory to me, with the main character leaving the woman he loved for no reason readily apparent to me. The ending made me angry, really angry, which marks perhaps the entry into double digits of times in my life in which I have been really angry ( Read more... )

You know those dream sequences that heroes sometimes have in fiction? The ones where faces from their past intermingle with faces from their present? Yeah, I just had one of those ( Read more... )

I just saw something brilliant. Maybe not all of you will get it, but this is a video for those who love words and playing with them.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7084489538066105747

Word dissasociation by Lemon Demon.