Last November we leased a Nissan Leaf, an electric car. My wife and I carpool 60 miles round-trip and the gas was more expensive than the lease-plus-electricity, so the decision was easy. It's a 3-year lease so that'll give them some time to improve the range and drop the price, hopefully. It would be hard to go back to a gas car, it turns out ( Read more... )

Big Fish (my employer) commissioned an artist to draw some women's outfits based on popular male video game characters. It's quite a cool project (and the artist is the daughter of someone in my vanpool who recently graduated from art school, so it's doubly cool to give her a "break.") These are for our booth at Geek Girl Con, evidently. Leave a comment  1 

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I'm on a really slow computer these days, I won't be doing a lot of online things right now. (Everything's fine though.) Update some day...

I'm posting this with fingertrouble in mind, but it's of general interest.
This movie clip compilation "sings" Lionel Ritchie's "Hello" -- quite clever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHRVzNLxTiU

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Paul Simon playing songs from my childhood, my sweetie going home for the evening -- this could work.

This webcomic is a strange parody (?) of superhero comics:

http://www.godhatesastronauts.com/

I'm still running, slowly but surely. I started last November and just hit 240 miles, which is a far cry from my 10 miles/week goal but is way more than 0 miles/week. My 3-mile runs aren't getting easier but at least my leg muscles aren't perpetually sore any more, unless I go a couple weeks without running (due to injury or vacation ( Read more... )

- Went camping last weekend, was sore for a few days afterward from sleeping on the ground. But it was fun, and delicious, and had plenty of campfire. Now I'm tired.

- Very busy at work, my game should be done in a month or two.

- Rereading _Last_Call_, then I'll lend it out to people. (That's how I lost it last time, which is fine...)

Last week I saw a really cool piece of technology -- a tiny cube that plugs into a smartphone that lets small-time vendors take credit cards. You can even sign your name using the touchscreen! It's evidently a venture co-founded by Mr. Twitter, whose name I don't care to look up ( Read more... )