Aaah. The guilty pleasure of having no children: Waking up at 10:50am Christmas morning. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Heading out the door to an annual Christmas Eve party.

Best wife ever. I'm working late (at home, where I work) and she's bringing me Timbits.

Tonight is going to get crazy! I'll be doing my part for the soldiers. Those demo men need more than a toothpick and plate to put us down.

wanting to contribute to the soldiers, but laughing my butt off to http://ping.fm/uI3n8 cause I'm a scout. #tf2

Putting on my helmet and doing my part to fight for the side of #Soldier in the Demo-Soldier war #tf2

http://gamejolt.com/ is looking better and better. I would love to put some time into game dev again, soon.

Fixed my downed PC. Swapped out the power supply with an older and almost incompatible PSU. Will be buying a new PSU soon.

Wrapping my head around "Ant". Also compiling an .exe from a .jar while inside Linux... well, trying to at least. Head, meet desk.

11th hour bug-squashing.

Looking forward to a Chili dinner with some family tonight.

Was there some sort of Grey foozeball game thing today?

I just jumped on the Left 4 Dead bus.

Heading out for Grandma's birthday party. It'll be wild.

I woke up just in time. 1 minute until the Steam sales switch over.

What's this? A home for something I've espoused about quite a bit? http://the-vector.com/ My thumbs go up. Up in more espousiness.

w000000t! I'm feeling good. Just finished one-heck-of-a-task. Might still have a bug or two to squash, but it's functional :)

#DesertBus is still going strong. Almost $47k raised. Proceeds go to Childrens Hospitals. Donate at http://desertbus.org/

Watching #LRR sing The Darkness' "I believe in a thing called love" for #DesertBus of Hope. http://desertbus.org/

I'm disappointed "Rainslick Precipice" hasn't been on sale in recent memory. Episode Two is already over a year old.

Done lunching. PC is set up and working properly with Ubuntu 9.10 and I've re-configured my Firefox. Next time I shouldn't have to do this.

Everything backed up, I'm removing my Ubuntu 9.04 and 8.10 partitions and installing 9.10 in their place.

When the chess game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box. Dungeon was a fun experience. http://ping.fm/nWPc4

Finished the main quest of Torchlight in 12 hours as a level 41 Warrior. That was fun.

I just read a nice article about Indie Games and their potential future. http://ping.fm/fHYrY

The Overlord Complete Pack (1, 2, & Raising Hell) at 75% off ($8.75)? I'm there! Steam ftw.

Just watched "Orphan". It was predictable, but still a good movie.

Making a run for Tim Hortons. I need a caffeine and timbit fix.

Rocking even more Java SWT programming. This is a nice breather from web development.

Going crazy with Eclipse and SWT. When I click my app tray icon, it displays. Now if I can get it to display only on Double-Click...

Going on an "I own it" spree at Amazon.ca so they can stop recommending books I own and start recommending awesome books I don't.

Reading a great article at Lost Garden re: Testosterone in gameplay http://ping.fm/0VMiW

Resisting the urge to start a new project. Or to buy a new game. November is going to be a very busy month.

4 groups of kids so far, I'm handing out the cavities at record pace. "Take what you like" has been half the bowl so far.

I'm done! The game is done. Information here: http://ping.fm/3YC4a

Whoop whoop! I just won "dinner and a movie" on the radio. Hello, Rogers movie rental and Little Ceasars Pizza.

Getting a whole lot of grunt work out of the way. 170-something instances of closing a database connection on try-catch-finally exception.

What a lucky day! I just got an ABS Mechanical Keyboard in the mail. Thanks, @GameXpo and @gdevnet http://ping.fm/9ZZZV

Rocking the java game programming with Beer Bottle Rocket Man: http://ping.fm/gEZVU

More Pomplamoose goodness: http://ping.fm/76lbA (1st half music, 2nd half show info)

Watching "Night of the Living Dead". It's in the public domain, so you can download it, too. http://ping.fm/NT9y7

Just as I'm shopping around for a laptop, my old laptop (5 years) decided to repeatedly lose power while plugged into the wall.

I have a love affair with Steam. It's what I imagine shoe shopping is for women. Steam prints money $5 at a time (when I give it to them).

Let's give this "productive day" thing a go again. Distractions are put away. Let's write this login page.

Just spent half an hour reading section 43 of the Canada Criminal Code. Is spanking a child illegal? No: http://ping.fm/6rh9n

w00t w00t! I've just been informed I'm a lucky winner of a GameX GameDev.net prize. http://ping.fm/ifszK

Did some work today. Currently playing Neverwinter Nights. I never did finish that, back in the day. Half way through chapter 2 (of 4?).

Another article: Resources for the Cheap-Ass Game Developer. http://ping.fm/V8f33

New Article: VirtualBox Network with WinXP Guest in Ubuntu Host http://ping.fm/EiCKu Quite the puzzle when it doesn't work.

Just watched Trick 'R Treat. Great movie. I'd watch it every year. Like "The Grinch" but for Hallowe'en.

It's "living room re-arrangement day" in our house, today. That translates to "make room for your stuff in your office day", too :-D

I shut off all distractions this morning and I got so much work done by 3pm. I wonder if it was a fluke... Yeah. A fluke.

Heading out to visit my Dad. Bringing the obligatory pizza (and maybe beer).

Oooooh. I really want Dragon Age: Origins. Just finished reading the novel tonight. Steam and D2D have the pre-order up starting today.

Caught in the stumbledupon trap! http://ping.fm/aaYRP Not productive!!!

Kicking butt and chewing bubble gum at work. And I'm all out of bubble gum... lame throwback to the 90s and Duke Nukem.

The deadline for Beer Bottle Rocket Man is getting closer. So is the finished product. Yeah.

The internet is awesome today. The DragonAge character creator is available: http://ping.fm/RLgYW

Happy Birthday, World of Goo! Fans: Name your price. http://ping.fm/yin7R

Installing WinXP within Ubuntu. Wait, is that not allowed?

Awake early (relatively) on this Canadian Thanksgiving day. Getting some work done because none has been done thus far this weekend.

The GameX http://gamexpo.us/ and GameX Industry Summit http://ping.fm/6SLdKsummit/ is coming up soon. What fun! I wish I could go...

Wow. The Left4Dead deal on Steam is uber-tempting. Almost expecting a $5 Left4Dead with pre-order of Left4Dead2 (closer to release date).

I just thought of something that felt important but now I forget what it was. I hate when that happens. Oh. There goes the recycling truck.

Up late last night with my mind that would not shut off. Effectively a zombie today. I LOVE ZOMBES!

Spending a nice afternoon playing Mario Kart and reading Digg between circuits.

Taking my wife out to dinner. Like a boss. Because it's her birfday!

Reading http://ping.fm/aBcPs

Just watched Bored to Death. It gets two of my opposable appendages in upright positions. Will watch it next week.

When you're on the high seas and your crew throws a fit to head for the shore, whatcha gonna do? http://ping.fm/SMJIK

Me wife got outta tha house 'afore'n I could talk Pirate to her. Blast me luck and grogginess.

Refactoring G2DP in a massive way. Stripped demo code from it. Now exists solely as a library. Learning from mistakes.

Just a reminder, tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day. You still have time to catch up on Pirates Attack! http://ping.fm/4MEjc

Encouraging you, enthusiastically, to play "Time Fcuk". http://ping.fm/iBLH4

I'll be the first to admit, I haven't (yet) put much thought into the levels. http://ping.fm/qdB6C #alpha

w00t! Helicopter Ninja now has level transitions. Still have to create the end-game and menu plus a few more tweaks.

Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming! September 19, everyone. Why not check out "Pirates Attack!" http://ping.fm/8KYVX

I picked "Best. Concert. Ever." at #PAX. Finally getting around to watching it.

I've been playing Braid throughout the weekend. I'll just say: I enjoy it. I enjoy it for myself. Not because I'm supposed to. Great game.

Everyone's favorite Helicopter Ninja gets a minor update. http://ping.fm/6Kpj6 He's smaller and carries a sword.

Spent the last hour playing Braid. The parallax looks awesome, but I have a feeling that is done in 3D rather than layers.

I'm done writing my #PAX notes gathered from professional (and indie) game developers: http://ping.fm/lmj2s

Hauled my office chair downstairs to use the bigscreen PC. Writing out my notes from PAX in blog form.

Ooh! Braid is only $5 this weekend. Methinks I should make a purchase... in the name of Research. And stuff. Oh! And celebration. Of work.

WTF! I haven't received texts since Saturday and now I'm getting a flood of them... ALL OF THEM since Saturday #telusfail

I'm working. No-fooling honestly working. Gotta build up that stockpile of savings again.

Some Helicopter Ninja alpha linkage http://ping.fm/7Ohkj

The 7-day game I'm making is called "Helicopter Ninja". Details here: http://ping.fm/bjXgh

Nice! Looks like I'm in the "50% ad revenue" bracket on GameJolt. Here's to making a little bit of monies.

Started to work on my first "made-in-7-days" game. I'll try to post the results this weekend, though I started on Tuesday.

I'm activating the KOTOR code that BioWare was giving #PAX attendees. Free KOTOR, everyone. Check your swag bags.

Listening to "Underbeard" by The Grammar Club. By Sunday, I was rocking my own Underbeard at #PAX09

Back home now from #PAX and it was a helluva time. Just looking through the photos. Will post to Flickr soon.

About to go wait in line before getting into the line-up room. Doors open officially at 10am.

Met up with 5 other Canadians. First thing we talk about? The half-priced beer. Cheers all around.

Hanging at the Green Tortoise in Seattle. Meeting other Twitter Shitters. #PAX To my wife: Miss you. But still having fun :D

w00t w00t! 1 hour until I'm on the Greyhound to #PAX. The Seattle station is right next to the Grand Hyatt. Convenient badge pickup!

Drinking some sort of a Firetruck. Had Jager in it. Tasty. Tasty and effective. Shower and bedtime now. Bus leave in 9 hours.

Heading out on the #PAX journey, heading to Checkpoint A (Kelowna). Leaving from there tomorrow morning.

My (slightly silly) business cards are ready to pick up, in time for #PAX. http://ping.fm/kx4Lj

Back from Dentist. Taking care of your teeth through the year is like making tiny payments daily. You could just pay up once at the dentist!

On hold on the phone. They've got "The Cranberries" screaming in my ear :P

Reading the tail end of the series of articles by @tinysubversions -> Effective Networking in the Game Industry http://bit.ly/YzUIH

Hello, Sunday. You're pretty cool, like the day of the week that shows up late to the party and doesn't even care.

In mere days I'll be heading to Seattle for PAX. Loading up my PSP with all the Pure Pwnage eps for the bus ride.

Being a zombie in front of my computer. This time next week, I'll be singing along with @jonathancoulton (from the crowd)

Updated the G2DP blog. You can see how my game is coming together right here: http://g2dp.n3wt0n.com/

Done with my foreground-rendering problem. Time to teach the Shadow Queen who's boss. Then on to Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Approx. 3 weeks until Fission Chips wraps up. It's not too late for you: http://1889.ca/9aw

One of my gouramis got stuck in an ornamental castle. I got him out, but he's hurting something fierce :-S

The urge to get the Metroid Prime Trilogy Collectors Edition for the Wii is pretty intense. BDay present for the wife... right?

The Camera object is complete. Backdrop now plays nice with everyone. http://ping.fm/bnQYj

Quote should be: "Reggie, I write HTML. Do you know what HTML is?"
"Of course I know what HTML-"
"If it's proprietary, I'm doing it wrong."

That was a fun quote :) I'm reading "The App" here -> http://ping.fm/UDy4a

%u201CReggie, I write HTML. Do you know what HTML is?%u201D %u201COf course I know what HTML%u2014%u201D %u201CIf it%u2019s proprietary, I%u2019m doing it wrong.%u201D <-- "The App"

Still kicking it with Mario. It has been a long time since I sat down with a game as long as I have tonight.

Rawking Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door for Nintendo Gamecube. I got it years ago. About time I finish it.

Well, Generic 2D Platformer gets a few more bugs worked out. http://ping.fm/sI2wY Time for some zombie stories.

Hooray for Friday. AFAIK, I've got no plans for the weekend. I smell... horror movies? My wife holds the veto.

Giving Dr. Awkward a listen. Considering drawing up another tileset while I'm waiting on laundry. Boring and loving it !.}

Sincerely working on the backdrop layer manager for G2DP. Maths is hard wurk.

This tweet started it all: http://ping.fm/UR6vq

Working on G2DP. Writing a "backdrop layer manager" for the illusion of depth.

Oh snap! What's playing at the drive-in? G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Star Trek. All. Week. Long.

Spent the day with PHP and MySQL and Apache... Rewrote the Medievia Auctioneer. http://ping.fm/hg1pK

Grooving to "Brad Sucks", a musician from Ontario, Canada. http://ping.fm/F8iEm Free music for the poor.

Some last minute coding and writing before bed. Another small step for G2DP. http://ping.fm/boQNz

Spoke with my former employer. Still no work for those of use who were laid off. Continuing the job search (and game development).

Hating on the only job postings (Monster, Workopolis) being advertised by recruiting agents. Agents == my job search stigma

G'morning. Oh, shiny. Something of a short attention... Mmm, coffee.

Looks like stardom will have to wait. Was about to fill in an application for movie extras... but they're asking for a $25 registration.

Late night sleep-challenged fiddling: http://ping.fm/CY6x0 More work on G2DP (nifty tiles).

I just discovered "Develop", a print and eZine that appears to cover the game industry. http://ping.fm/WLvFq free

Putting some caffeine to use. Reading "Everything you always wanted to know about going indie (but were afraid to ask)" http://ping.fm/GJ4rL

Whoa! DSOrganize, ftw! How did this escape my attention?

Messing around with DSLinux. Getting the DS ready for PAX.

I am computering.

Today's accomplishment: http://n3wt0n.com/ <-- Putting to use the last month's creative images (Updated Theme).

K... so I haven't started on the packaging article yet. But here's how to set up Eclipse for use with Slick: http://ping.fm/AJZId

Writing up a quick How-To sign and package Slick and lwjgl for jnlp webstart.

Getting down and dirty with the #PAX schedule. http://ping.fm/xsXbo

Trying my hand at The Great Old One. http://ping.fm/Ps7QQ

Looking forward to the #Perseid #MeteorShower tonight and tomorrow night. Might even head up the ski hill after midnight.

Waaaaaah! Two hours worth of bug hunting, and it comes down to two lines of code, only 6 words, to fix the problem.

Clowns and zombies! My creative efforts today combine the two. http://ping.fm/1KJCG & http://ping.fm/mxrbo

Introduced sound and a "camera" to G2DP. Note, will ask to launch as webstart: http://ping.fm/I5Gst

No longer listening to wizard rock. Maybe I got a bad batch. Seems that @hipsterplease already found the best of the bunch.

Listening to wizard rock and programming on G2DP. Wizard rock, fyi, is Harry Potter inspired tunes. http://ping.fm/AbLha

Just fixed up my "Auctioneer" script for the MUD Medievia. Does anyone else play MUDs these days? I'm a level 91 multi-class Warrior.

Home from a nice night-time motorcycle ride. See, if I say "bike ride" then people think I'm peddling my butt around.

Currently sitting in the top 4 of the Future Shop hunt leaderboard. http://ping.fm/VJh8q

Club Penguin got back to me for the first time ever. Hopefully this is lucky number 3 (times I've applied over the years).

Finally got the WebStart working in Generic 2D Platformer. You, too, can control a stick man. http://ping.fm/efsrD

It looks like I'm all set for the Penny Arcade Expo. Greyhound: check. #PAX 3-Day pass: check. Green Tortoise hostel: check.

Applying for a job at Club Penguin that looks dang-near tailor made for me. Best part: it's only a 50 minute drive from home.

Fiddling with Generic 2D Platformer. Today I have goals (and I got my creative work done yesterday). w00t for Wordpress scheduling.

Sharing the free entertainment via a poorly worded article: http://ping.fm/R6xAr

Alrighty... here goes. In preparation for PAX, I'm turning on incoming SMS messaging for certain PAXers.

Can anyone confirm that with Telus, incoming text messages don't count against a monthly text message limit?

Getting flubby and doing something about it. Crazy how it just creeps up on you! w00t. 20 situps. K, I'm done 4evar.

Heading out to watch "The Proposal" with my wife. All the ladies I've talked to said the movie was good.

Oh! I forgot the link! http://ping.fm/Yv81R Torchwood x The Office!

Laughing out loud (yes, I literally LOL'd) at "The Chaos Book". It's like "The Office" meets "Torchwood".

A (very) short story inspired @doctorow's story I, Rowboat (among others) http://ping.fm/2CYGt

31 days exactly to pax http://ping.fm/iHu4n

Reading a series of articles on "Effective Networking in the Games Industry" http://ping.fm/3yjq2

Hooray for the BC Day long weekend tomorrow.

Preparing for tomorrow's "Creative Juices." Expect something like an angel, someone locked in a box, and something else.

Stirring up trouble... in my frying pan. The frying pan of *doom*.

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day, everyone. In appreciation of the guys and gals who keep the internet running, I'ma drink beers.

The burgers are done, and now the night of horror begins. We have: Various Hellraisers, A Haunting in some place called Connecticut and more

Making myself an early dinner. Early first half: 3 hamburgers. Later second half: Licorice Allsorts (because no one can tell me otherwise)

w00t w00t! I just got the "Level Up 2009" Intel Swag Bag from @gdevnet It's full of swag!

Working on my daily Creative Juices. FYI, that's one image, one haiku, and one 50 word story. All original.

Listening to Optimus Rhyme. They sure know how to drop the funky beats.

http://n3wt0n.com/ sees a *long overdue* update. Small changes. Time to get a little less "me" and a little more "professional".

This 32°C weather is surprisingly bearable when you strip down to just your boxers. Looking forward to the lightning storms tonight.

I'm on today! A trio of robots: http://ping.fm/fg4jO & http://ping.fm/zcOXw & http://ping.fm/Oerrv

I need to take a lesson in selling myself. Phone pre-interview: 1, Kyle: 0

Elegent solution found. I've got a stick man walking without complications. http://ping.fm/S4lfh #g2dp

Just applied at two different companies re: PHP/SQL programmer. Crossing my fingers.

Puzzling out an elegant solution to a problem in Generic 2D Platformer. The physics library has my hero colliding with tiles on a flat floor

WHOA! Bear Hugger, from Punch Out is from the small town where I grew up, Salmon Arm, BC, Canada. http://ping.fm/PANnF

Keeping indoors, reading, playing games and listening to music. It's like I'm on autopilot since I'm the only one home.

Looks like we're going to have a repeat of last night's strange weather. Uzumaki over my house.

Hooowow. It's hot out. Taking the bike out to help cool down.

Chickening out. I'll just stink. Quite the storm going on outside (for the last 3 hours)

Going to brave the lightning because I need a shower. The clouds seem high enough anyway and the thunder is quite delayed #famouslastwords

Harvesting ADAM from Little Sisters. The time is about right for a second playthrough of BioShock. Evil this time.

Browsing through "Comic Con" photos on Flickr, wishing I could filter out all the Twilight cast.

A tribute to the current Kelowna fire http://ping.fm/9AqXU #kelownafire

In an effort to escape from the absolutely strange: The Lapine Terror http://ping.fm/liSAl

RT @1889ca My guest post on n3wt0n is live: 6 Easy Steps to Making Stupid Things Smart: http://1889.ca/9jm

Online justice begins... ambiguously. And fictionally. http://ping.fm/hWkWx

Ash is starting to settle here in Vernon. Not the demon slaying ash, but the other kind.

Watching Ninjas rock *HARD* on guitars. http://ping.fm/q1ch3 Totally wicked. And awesome. And Ninja. All of those.

Heck, yes! Another season of Hell's Kitchen starts tonight. Oh, Gordon, you are dee-lite-ful http://ping.fm/wdDOT

Peter Sjöstrand's Mega Man 2.5D site has gone live. This is worth checking out! http://ping.fm/P8rA4

I'm listening to NiN and folding clothes. I can housewife, too!

A trio of android goodness: http://ping.fm/y9nDz http://ping.fm/M4ZvE and http://ping.fm/1uHVM

Today "The Vector" is released upon the world. http://ping.fm/lUsnO Don't miss out on the karate, guns and bio-hackery. ThumbsUp++

Watching my 3 favorite Nerd-Artists on stage *at the same time* http://ping.fm/f2zAf @mc_frontalot @beefyness @mc_lars

Just freaked out my Chihuahua by walking out of a darkened room while wearing camo pants. He was focusing on the camo pants.

Watching Vernon become engulfed in smoke while the Kelowna forest fire burns. http://castanet.net/

I've got an additional 3 Heroes of Newerth (DoTA) beta invitations. Friends or strangers, Windows, Mac or Linux, you are welcome. Just ask.

Today's Creative Juices: A blue kid http://ping.fm/KtqE4 Immature Love http://ping.fm/4eu2D Mature Love http://ping.fm/JUa9h

What Zombie Kindergarten might be like: http://ping.fm/IuQkL And a super-hero plumber: http://ping.fm/6D0eQ

I finally get around to writing my resume. Version 1.0 is here http://ping.fm/dYtsQ Programmer seeks means of purchasing food.

Today's 50 word story, an exercise in recursion? http://ping.fm/qH6zP

There's no valve on this keg of Creative Juice. I can't stop the flow! http://ping.fm/42QlS

Still looking for work. The ThinkGeek job (Perl-code-monkey) would be sweet, but I'm still just a Perl-Chimp.

w00t w00t! The last of my order, "The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless" just arrived at my door.

Creative Juices, day 2, starts with an anniversary. http://ping.fm/yfBPV

Making slow but steady progress with Generic 2D Platformer. That's what I get for letting my java programming skills slip for two years.

w00t! Two books from my latest order have arrived. Clive Barkers "Mister B. Gone" and the collection of short stories "The Living Dead".

More juicy creativeness. Picture: http://ping.fm/GHxlT and Haiku: http://ping.fm/h6OMs

The creativity begins. Fries With That: http://ping.fm/H4h4s

Waiting on the "Intel Swag Bag" from GameDev.net to arrive. In the meantime, development of G2DP continues.

Home, Sweet Home. Showering and getting to sleep.

Happy Free Slurpee Day, everyone!

Trying to come up with an original premise for why a hero should enter a series of worlds to kill off a big bad guy.

Back home from Medieval Times. Great show. Definitely recommended.

Heading out to Medieval Times for dinner and a show.

Tonight's activity: 3 Royal Seats at Medieval Times restaurant. This is going to be awesome!

"It's a dry heat" is not what you'd expect to hear in Georgia. Especially from a GA native. It's wet here. Humid.

Back on solid ground after 40 minutes flying in a 4-seater Cherokee Warrior 151 with my Dad.

w00t! I just ordered these books -> Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless. The Living Dead. Mister B Gone: A Novel.

Back from Six Flags. Relaxing tonight and tomorrow. Had a fun time today.

Heading to Six Flags for a few hours of Roller-Coaster'y fun.

A new, @1889ca approved TorrentBoy story is available! "Pirates Attack!" today! http://ping.fm/F2W4D

Played two rounds of Pink Godzilla Dev Kit. Three hours later my Brother wins one and I pwn him in the other.

Finished a two-hour round of 3 player Killer Bunnies. Played with the Blue, Yellow, Violet and Red decks. My brother won. Now for PGDevKit.

Heading out for our anniversary dinner. I hear most people only get one first wedding anniversary.

One full year of marriage? Check.

Heading out to my old high-school for 4th of July fireworks.

"The Chaos Book" sounds interesting. A collection of stories about an efficiency expert for the supernatural. http://ping.fm/yQo6m

Just got home from Turner Field. Didn't stick around to watch the Braves game, but it was cool being shown around by ex-Braves Brian Jordan.

Trying not to get too far behind on my RSS feeds. Only 42 new articles left to sift through.

Soaking in a caffeine bath. (Not really). Been awake since 7:30am, June 30. Survived 12.5 hours over three flights and layovers. Mmm, coffee

Leaving on a jet plane.

Sitting through my last day of work. I wonder, am I expected to focus? I've heard stories of people indulging on beer on their last day...

I've got 28 candy bars sitting on my dinner table... I'ma eat some.

One of these days I should reply to a "You're the winner of Lottery". I could have helped my whole family tree retire by now.

Another minor milestone met for Generic 2D Platformer. Heading to bed where I'll no-doubt be dreaming of stick-men and red dots.

Preparing for my trip. Spending almost two weeks with family in Georgia. Best way to start July :)

Listening to Rhyme Torrents Volume 7 while I write Perl.

Moving a futon from one room to another (for the second time). Note to self: Yes, you need to take it apart to move it.

Having my butt handed to me on a crystal skull in Spelunky. Great game. http://ping.fm/qR38d

Blowing up balloons for our company's farewell party/bbq.

Playing "How to Raise a Dragon". http://ping.fm/rMiTO

Whoa! Whoa! One does not simply purchase id Software. How can one purchase id Software? What? And a BioWare/Mythic merger? World upside-down

Learning the *stuffing* out of Slick and its conventions. July and August are looking to be great months.

Feeling the urge to rework http://n3wt0n.com Thinking of transitioning from Wordpress to Drupal.

Just printed off MakeUseOf's "The Productivity Guide: For A Computer Geek". I'm productive today! http://ping.fm/K29sL

Bobbing my head to RhymeTorrents Volume VII. Setting down for a couple hours of programming.

Chapter 8 of Fission Chips takes an interesting turn... Gare, the main character, doesn't know when to shut up http://ping.fm/2mkvj

Just got back from a Sunday afternoon with my Dad. Walked around a car show looking at classics, then had lunch at a pub. Happy Father's Day

Headphones, engage! >_< This just in, MCFrontalot fronts the most, 24/7. Me? I'm zoning out so I can refocus.

Tearing things back down to basics. Generic2DPlatformer gets a redesign, code-wise.

A can of Old Milwaukee in one hand, a bag of licorice in the other, a movie on the TV and my wife in my lap. What it is to be married.

Hrm... Will be so close to Nerdapalooza but my trip ends the day after Nerdapalooza begins.

My summer vacation is getting extended... indefinitely. Company lost contract, now lacking funds. Thank Canada for Employment Insurance.

I don't know how I missed this, but Intel has a Game Development contest under way. http://ping.fm/UiSu6

Done yet another project someone requested of me. Getting a feeling of what freelancing is about. Now if I were to actually charge someone..

Emptied out the staff fridge. Found items as ancient as August 2007. #ancientfood

It's saying something when in the winter you complain when a shower runs cold, but in the summer you complain when it's not cold enough.

Had a great day reading Penny Arcade and watching Star Trek TOS. Maybe tomorrow I'll get some programming done... yes... always tomorrow.

Me: "Hi. How are you?" Them: "Good, how are you" Me: "Great, thanks. How are you?" -- my bad habit :-p

Aha! I found the fix for LWJGL to work with Ubuntu 9.04. Development on Generic 2D Platformer commences.

Watching the main city bus-stop outside my window at work, three police cars roll up and cart some guy away.

I just "finished" Blueberry Garden. It took one "The End" before I had figured it out. Great game.

Showing support for Indie Developers (and artists alike). Just purchased "Blueberry Garden" off Steam. It looks awesome.

Hello, World. I've said this before, and I'll say it again. When I have children, I will read them these stories: http://books.1889.ca/

Looking forward to reading Chapter 7 of Fission Chips tomorrow. http://ping.fm/xoddI Heading to bed in the meantime.

I've just posted the alpha of "Auctioneer" for the MUD #medievia http://ping.fm/y7Ua8

Aha! Back on March 4th I responded to a post for some GitHub stickers! http://ping.fm/WQ2Bl

Just got a couple stickers in the mail (my wife phoned, I haven't seen them yet). I can't remember what they're about. "Delta Stickers"?

Enjoyed reading an article on teaching your children to argue. http://ping.fm/UfRud

Eating a can of beans in molasses. Oh, how I love beans. They are delightful. And the molasses feels good between my toes.

Help me get my name in print :D Read a great story while you're at it. http://1889.ca/9aw

Insured my motorcycle today. Just getting my legs back.

Eating bugs. I mean blueberry yogurt.

Heading out to watch my last unmarried sister get married.

Messing around with perl and SQLite. I've written an "Auction House" script to gather and parse in-game item and avatar activity.

Please consider making a $10 donation for a good cause. You're entered into a raffle, too. http://ping.fm/fbogg

Wow! What a weekend deal on Steam. $5 for the Penumbra series... if I bough it, though, I'd feel bad for not supporting the Linux release.

"I'm too sexy" by Right Said Fred just came on the radio. Does anyone else envision the scene from "Encino Man" every time they hear it?

Aaand the season of forest fires begins. Looking out my window I see clear blue skies... darkened by a uniform sheet of smoke.

About to get in on this Fission Chips thing. http://ping.fm/bsZfW Hello chapter one!

Chewing on Licorice AllSorts while writing SQLite queries.

It's beautiful how things just seem to fall into place at the end of some days. Done work, task accomplished. Time to head home.

Lifting weights of Perl... with my mind.

Two years after starting my profession I just started a stash of cola under my desk.

w00t w00t! I just finished a milestone with my current project. This calls for a PB&J & coffee.

Been listening to the Mass Effect album on loop all day. It's nice. Somehow it's keeping me focused on my work.

Farming a relatively low level zone in Medievia. Killing Quiet Monks & farming Holy Flasks. Feel bad for it, but it helps with a -1000 align

Checking out OpenGoo. It's like Google Documents, but Open Source and can be run on your own server.

Loading up the car and heading to Kelowna. Swimming pools and gamer geeks. Bad attempt at Beverly Hillbillies :-P

Breaking and fixing things in Generic2DPlatformer. Sleepy time now that it's stable.

Sweet! My regional library took my suggestion and are circulating some copies of BioWare/David Gaider's "Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne"

Putting away the Mozart and kicking it into gear this afternoon with some @mc_frontalot

Eating blueberry yogurt makes me think I'm chomping on bugs.

Whoops. Prey wouldn't run so I tried to install the latest ATI graphics drivers. Now I broke XOrg and can't even get to shell.

Just got my IR remote control working with XBMC in Ubuntu 9.04, now installing Prey (using the Linux installer from Icculus.org) w00t w00t!

Listening to a Mozart album. Co-Workers are calling it "Church music". Hmph! I'll show them when I gain focus. It's like Spinach for Popeye.

Backing up the contents of my laptop. It has been on the verge of death for years. Good ol' lappy.

Relaxing at home, reading an article on how to stay focused. I'm so bad at sticking to the task at hand.

Building graphs'n'stuff for the game Ikariam. Figuring out the cost/attack & cost/defend values for each unit.

Automatic driving got me home today. Was off in La-La-Land when I left work and suddenly I'm home.

Brushing up on even more Java. I'd shifted focus from Java to Perl in my last year of University (both great languages to know).

Just watched @garyvee 's 2008 Web2.0 Expo speech. Awesome, inspirational.

Heh. Just took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (INTJ-44/12/25/11). Career indicator: Computer Programming. Crazy.

Emailing my former Research Supervisor/Prof at University, thanking her for everything she'd done for me. #oneyearsincegrad

Donate to this worthy cause for a (possible) chance to win one of two computers. http://ping.fm/0NNMT

Can't get enough of the 99 Balloon Fights remix by Baddd Spellah (Sure I could if I tried). It would be nothing without @beefy #followfriday

Rocking the workday like Albert Einstein pwning a blackboard.

MCM's novel, "Fission Chips", launches today. http://ping.fm/TStsh Mysterious!

Responded to too many Nigerian scammers. Hard to keep track of them all now. Bright side, I won a car, and the Irish Lottery and got $1/2mil

w00t! I just performed my first Bridge to Rail (B2R) jump in QuakeLive. And to prove to myself it wasn't a fluke I did it a second time :D

Left the house for work this morning to find I'd left my car headlights on. Whoops. My wife, my hero. She drove me.

July 24 in Las Vegas for the Blink-182 tour sounds like an awesome time... last minute deals? Heh.

I'm not wearing any socks. They were just blown off. How did I miss the "Old Nerdy Bastard" album for so long? http://ping.fm/g3LIf

Up late, ripping apart Generic2DPlatformer and putting it together again all better, stronger, faster.

Drinking a strong coffee. 6 cups, 4 scoops. Less liquid, more kick. Mmm. #strongcoffee

#followfriday @1889ca (Author: TorrentBoy, Fission Chips, The Pig and the Box, +). @mc_frontalot @beefyness @mc_lars (Nerdcore FTW)

Putting my (almost Minor in) Philosophy to use regarding a new Creative Commons concept. http://ping.fm/LfnzO

I missed it in theatres, but July 21, 2009 I'm getting the BluRay Director's Cut of Watchmen. (186 minutes). Ah yeah!

Revelation: Any online trip planner (WestJet, Travelocity, etc) is cheaper Wed, Thurs, Friday regardless of when trip is.

A tip to Expedia customers: Shop for flights on Wed, Thurs or Friday. Seriously. It'll save you loads of cash. $400 diff from Mon to today.

Fire In The Sky: Crispy Duck #sixwordstory

Heading out to vote. #vote #britishcolumbia #elections #bc

Family tech support, Kyle speaking. I'm sorry, we no longer support Microsoft products. Only 5 more tries? Unacceptable. Try OpenOffice.org!

Daydreaming and listening to "The Darkness" makes a person write funny things...

Harboring a secret fantasy to rock out on stage wearing tight leather pants grinding a wicked axe while screaming falsetto. The crowd cheers

Playing with Phys2D, the 2D Game Physics engine for Java. What else would I be doing on a Sunday night?

Listening to tunes and reading Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".

Tip-Toe'ing around getting my collision detection working within Generic2DPlatformer. Playing with sound effects instead.

Received my Linux Format magazine in the mail. The joke is on me. It's the same one that was given away free via bittorrent.

Happy Birthday wishes from the internets to my Mother-in-Law. She won't get the message, but history says it's here on the internet forever.

Barbies FTW. Going to hunt for Kirk and Spock Barbie dolls this weekend. Original packaging 20 years later, anyone?

Experiencing a case of "I'm never going to use this in real life" like people say in school. Thing is, I'm at work.

Rawking out to "Dragon Ash" and looking forward to a nondescript evening at home. I'd have to say, those are the best kinds of evenings.

Suffering a case of "brain-dead" today. An awesome side-effect: 2+1/2 hours have passed like a fart in the wind.

Shifting gears at work. In the spirit of "body building", I wonder how my brain would look in a speedo at a "brain-building" competition?

Trying not to have my view of Orson Scott Card's novels skewed after reading that the guy is kind of a dick. http://ping.fm/7y2Z9

Saw Wolverine tonight. Awesome movie. Bummed about the liberties taken with Deadpool, though.

Spent the last hour wrestling with Eclipse only to realize my problem was with libgcj. Ubuntu users, don't install Eclipse from Synaptic.

It's Friday and that means today is *AWESOME* to the max.

GoDaddy doesn't want to fix their servers to properly display SVGs. So do it yourself: http://ping.fm/UGGdK

Feeding MegaHAL the text of Alice in Wonderland via a Perl script and the AI::MegaHAL module. MegaHAL needs more...

Perusing a "Swine Map" to track outbreaks. http://ping.fm/iR49a P.S., are you infected? http://ping.fm/6cGt5

How To: Install XBMC (formerly known as XBox Media Center) in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. http://ping.fm/U09lP

Perusing the behind-the-scenes activity of Introverision Software (@ivsoftware) and Darwinia+. http://ping.fm/Tq0Hp

Kicking back, tapping out some Java. Listening to MC Frontalot. So excited he's confirmed his participation for PAX.

Hrm... better make that "Content" because for some reason the "copyright-c" wouldn't display. �

I'm half-way through Cory Doctorow's "�ontent", and getting a lot out of it. Next up, Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".

How insane is it that Valve's marketing is so effective that I would consider buying a SECOND Orange Box because of the $9.99 price tag.

Just booked lodgings at the Green Tortoise hostel in Seattle for Penny Arcade Expo 2009. w00t!

Hooray for birthdays! Didn't pack a lunch today 'cause I knew I'd be eating cake. I love food. Hoping against obesity... and diabetes :D :D

Inspired by @doctorow and at least one of his essays, I think tonight after work I'm going to configure my Linux PC to play my BluRay movies

Installing Ubuntu 9.04 from the 11.1MB mini.iso

It's so tempting to download the latest Ubuntu on 0-day... The updates are terribly slow for the first week, though.

Eating my penne pasta like a game of Jenga, and there's no one around to tell me not to play with my food.

Yes! Robotic penguins. How cool is that? http://ping.fm/NCngM

Looking forward to Friday evening. I hope I didn't mis-understand that it's a dinner. Mmm. Dinner.

Just finished watching the first X-Men movie. The X-Men boxed trilogy is an impressive 9 discs large.

Just scored the last Blu-Ray X-Men Trilogy on the shelf at Future Shop. Best date-night ever.

Slowly convincing myself that XML is the way to go for storing and retrieving saved game information and individual levels/challenges. #java

Slowly rocking Slick with Java. It's been almost two years since I last sat down for some serious Java programming sessions. It feels good.

Putting some time into Generic2DPlatformer. Lots of grand ideas in my head. A few make it to paper. Will see what's do-able.

Busy day keeping the provincial exams in order... It's always busy when the exams are going on.

Running dungeons in Dungeon Runners. It's been so long since I logged in.

Broke my car key :-/ Crap.

Home with my wife's brand-new mountain bike. It's as much a gift for her as it is for me.

Working... but it's an awesome day to go for a walk around Rattlesnake Point. http://ping.fm/8lFBw

Learning vim. Look, Mom! I'm a real programmer now.

Enjoyed an evening of riding mountain bikes through a park with my wife. Squeezed in a pizza, beer and cake, too.

Starting to fear for my job. Wondering if this year will see a growing trend of "any reason to fire you" to cut costs. Hello, open source?

Listening to a couple co-workers tell a tale of their experience with a flash mob this lunchtime.

Daydreaming. Yeah... daydreaming. :-)

Backing up a tv-series boxed set... that's fair use, right? Thanks for believing in it, EFF.

Sale on TorrentBoy t-shirts until Wednesday. Save10.40% off your order. http://zazzle.com/torrentboy*

Forcing myself to get some work done tonight. Ignoring QuakeLive by booting into Ubuntu.

Playing with the Slick library. Loving that it's taking care of the menial setup.

Kicking back with Quake Live and looking forward to the Linux client.

Falling asleep to MC Frontalot fronting phat beats beside my bed. Touring Wonka's chocolate factory while sugar plums dance inside my head.

Crash, the lovable teddy-bear. He's my latest design: http://ping.fm/QpNxn*

How can a print-on-demand service (Zazzle) not support Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)?

Digesting birthday cake. And how!

I can't wait for the day that either a)PEBKAC'ers stop using computers or b)PEBKAC'ers start using them and realize there's a "new internet"

Sharing the free(speech)software love with my Strata council via OpenOffice. Someone complained about not having cash for MS Office purchase

w00t w00t! The Linux Journal scramble for a year-subscription is providing the first issue. Yeah!

Gaining some ground with my project. It's been so long, like revisiting 4th year university.

Going from motivated to zero in one sentence, flat. It's a great day outside.

After playing with the test examples for LWJGL I realize that OpenGL availability depends on whether or not I have OpenGL installed... duh

Reading up on LWJGL but I can't figure out whether or not it includes everything needed for programming OpenGL or not. /noob

Undertaking the slow process of modularizing these classes into islands that make sense. Slow going while warp speeding with uber-coffee.

Watching the brand-new just-posted-today Charlie the Unicorn. http://ping.fm/ycyH5

Brewing up a flagon of motivation-juice. Hello Caffeine. Hello, evening. Goodbye sleep ^_^

Looking forward to the end of the work day. I've got some overdue projects (ie things from the weekend) to finish. You know what you are.

Success:More effective to recruit self-selected volunteers than to manage buildings full of people who'd rather be doing something else ~ESR

Hacking away with the Standard Widget Toolkit. Trying to make sense of it all. Why do I think it will work better than AWT? 0_o

Being the "fifth wheel" at the kitchen table as my wife and her girly friends are watching "Mamma Mia!" in the living room.

Binge-night. Tacitos, jalapeno poppers, chips and salsa... cream-filled doughnuts. Yeah!

Looking for the tool used to update OpenSUSE. Usually in Ubuntu, after a new install, you have to "aptitude safe-upgrade" and "dist-upgrade"

Installing Debian and OpenSUSE. I think I'll attempt a week with each. Ubuntard right here.

I'm getting better with Inkscape... I think. Heading to bed. Might change the zombie avatar after a couple modifications.

Rawking out to Punk Goes Crunk. It ain't nothing but a G-Thing, sez Kyle in all his white-boy nerdishness.

w00t w00t! The Watchmen opens up in the "cheap theatre" tonight. I may not be able to wait until it's on BluRay...

Getting PmWiki's CleanUrls working with a subdomain. Just messing around.

Creating a new label in GMail. Title: April Fools. I think last year I just deleted them all. Danged newsletters.

Dang packetrats. Just when you need a swarm of them to visit your part of the TorrentSphere, Leeches get their attention and drive them away

Claiming my consolation prize from TuxRadar/Linux Format. Thank you, TuxRadar and Linux Format!

Deciding that Inkscape should not be relied on for colouring. Perhaps I'm the last to know.

Sketching. Finding I should at least have a pencil. Sketching in ink works but it's permanent and gets messy.

Catch 22. You love technology... until it gets so damned awesome that it takes your job away. (Not me. Just saying).

Looking back and glad I didn't rush through University. Wishing I could be back, adding another degree.

Spewing philosophy re: TorrentBoy and open source submission. http://ping.fm/GZiZt

Doing my duty. Dutying it up. Hehe. Doody.

Heading out to "The Talkin' Donkey" http://ping.fm/rA9cz for a hot Java infusion. Mmm, caffeine. The programmer's life-blood.

Doing some much needed catch up with Full Circle Magazine.

Nice! My email just won the Japanese lottery. Now if only *I* could win the Japanese lottery, I'd be rolling in the Yen.

Drinking a glass of red wine, listening to The Darkness , tapping out Java code and trying my hardest to be awesome. I feel good :)

Bwahaha! Drawing familiarity to "The little old lady on the phone who tells her life story to a telemarketer." Getting back to work now ^_^

@1889ca You are very welcome. And anyone listening in the TorrentSphere, follow this link and be entertained. http://1889.ca/

Hoping that the Nintendo DS drops in price now that the DSi is out. I'd buy another DS for around $100.

Deleting spam from my gmail. Doesn't it seem that this week has seen a lot more spam than ever?

w00t w00t! We're presenting the North Okanagan Linux Users' Group publicly in April.

Huh. First time I've come across GoDaddy's advertised 1% downtime. How inconvenient.

Mocking up a site for "TorrentBoy". If it's not used officially, I'll at least be able to use it.

Dear Sun Microsystems. Thank you for starting a contest and then making the programming language available on all OS' except the one I use.

Trying to watch Jupiter Broadcasting's "Cross Development Programming" videos in my living room. Then three very talkative girls walk in.

Got lucky and recovered my Sticky Notes from another window that I had open. Celebrating by chair-dancing to "Natalie's Rap".

Noooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooo-ooooooooooooooo. I just lost all my sticky notes in Google-apps Sticky Note! :( Sad Monkey.

Crossing my fingers that I'll be showing off at next year's GDC.

Does boredom encourage genius? I don't know. I'm not bored... my mind just wanders. I can't stop thinking.

Awesome new idea in children's literature! Get in on the ground floor: http://ping.fm/yyjEx

Hello, Yesterday. Welcome to the FUTURE!

Tuesday, March 24th. I'm wearing shorts! Significant because last week we had a lot of snow on the ground.

Making coffee so strong that everyone in the office will get the jitters, whether they like it or not, simply by breathing it in. Muahaha.

Cracking open BLT (Bash Loves Twitter) to try to get it to work.

Rawking XBMC. Who doesn't love controlling their PC from the couch with a remote?

Received a bigger tax return than what I filed it as. There's got be a number to call to see if it's really mine.

Kicking it with Lovecraft in "The Dunwich Horror". Been loving H.P. lately.

I want to see a remake of the original Power Rangers movie. Heck, I'd love to see a "Power Rangers: Reimagined". You know you want to...

How awesome would it be to have white facial (and head) hair at 25? I just found two white beard hairs on my face.

Funny (and awesome) how Perl exudes readability... but on the other hand you can convolute the *hell* out of it for a hapless maintainer.

Today's "Shell Shocker" on Newegg.ca is a good'un. I just ordered one. http://ping.fm/4adbb

Inspiration strikes and my zombie vision is complete. Will try to "flesh it out" in the next few days. Will share when complete.

All we wanna do is eat your brains. We're not unreasonable. I mean, no one is going to eat your eyes.

Changing my material license from CC by-sa 2.5 Canada to CC by-nc-sa 2.5 Canada. Share. Free.

Is there a place in this world where someone could talk about Regular Expressions without the audiences eye glazing over? As yet... no idea.

Getting back to work. Grooving to "Blue Sunny Day" by Jonathan Coulton. Hooray for vampires.

Holy c4rp! I made $0.52 USD! That's like... $70 Canadian.

w00t w00t! Just got a Battlefield Heroes beta invite.

Showing 1889.ca books to my wife. These are the types of books (some of them) that I'd read to my little geeks. Eventually.

Working on Piksahl. Trying to, at least. Work never seems to get done when you're not at work.

Cool! Jenna Fischer (Pam Beasley of The Office) is on @theellenshow with her Mom and Dad and her Dad is wearing a Dunder Mifflin golf-tee.

Taking it way back to Grade 8. Trigonometry for the win. Clubhouse for Radians. No Degrees allowed.

A shout out for great stories that deserve support (British Columbian independent publishing - 1889). http://1889.ca/ complements @1889ca

Reading in a local magazine an article about SCUBA diving. Feeling motivated to put my old NASDS (SCUBA) license to use.

Brushing up my Trigonometry and how to rotate a point around an origin. http://ping.fm/HXzy3

Thanks to the re-release of Disney's Pinocchio, I realize the inspiration behind @doctorow 's "Return to Pleasure Island".

The Tribal Trouble 2 beta seems to be open to the public again. I encourage all to try it. http://ping.fm/mI5k9

Why I look forward to Penny Arcade Expo: Being surrounded by like-minded individuals who share excitement for obscure table-top card games.

Working on the "Jumpalot" concept. What's "Jumpalot"? Hrm... What indeed.

w00t! I qualified for the 1-Year Linux Journal digital subscription. Starts w/ the May edition.

Playing some Wesnoth and then heading to bed.

Wishing GoDaddy would get it right when setting up subdomains.

You ever feel like tiny-shorts-guy from the movie "Made of Honor"? You haven't? Oh. No, nevermind.

Building my custom Ubuntu desktop from the 9.9MB mini.iso

Radical! "The Lost Boys" on BluRay looks as good as an 80's movie can look (which is pretty good).

Old married couple night at home. Got a 1 Gallon jug of Merlot (how classy does that sound?) and just picked up The Lost Boys on BluRay!

Giving my zombie shoes.

Generic video game badguy #412: Tuxedo wearing hockey-mask guy.

Darn! The one thing about an encrypted volume: If you forget the pass key, there goes all your data.

Submitting a suggestion to my local public library. Requesting they make available David Gaider's "Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne".

w00t. Just came up with the solution to the Linux Journal subscription scramble. Was waiting for Friday's video.

w00t! Coraline is waiting for pickup at the Library.

A quick little blurb on creating a simple "Blog Roll" block for Drupal. http://ping.fm/pnQDe

Left unattended at work. Suddenly finding myself very bored :-/

Multitasking. Trying to bring down my 1.2 days worth of unlistened podcasts. Messing with nolug.ca, too.

Telling my office-mates about my "artemia salina" aka brine shrimp aka sea monkeys. Feeling like a big dork because they just don't get it.

Just finished my 2008 taxes (for the third time, to triple-check values). Settled on HR Block and got a $5 discount with code: HB0532KU93

Doing my taxes (Canadian). First time filing a joint return. Seems too easy... I must be doing it wrong.

Rawking the updates to http://nolug.ca/ and finally finding my way around Drupal.

Learning a trick or two with Drupal.

I want a 1-year subscription to Linux Journal. http://ping.fm/Tb41y

Doug sings "Walk this way" then sips drink. Me "Best thing Steve Tyler ever produced was his daughter". Doug spits drink back, through nose.

Reading up on the LQWiki about OpenGL. There's nothing funny about OpenGL.

Wondered why I wasn't getting aggravated with UseNet lately, then I remembered I stopped subscribing to "comp.os.linux.advocacy".

NOM'ing on a bag of Licorice Allsorts Minis. Dispensing codification through my fingertips.

Enlisting the Scrubbing Bubbles Army of Doom to kick that bathtub soap-scum into outer space.

Researching how to clean a bathtub. Mine is definitely not in a usable state. Good for showers but you wouldn't want to soak in it.

Wearing pants. At work. Wishing I didn't have to wear pants today.

Zoinks. My piddly defenses were broken overnight. My town in Ikariam has been pillaged. Worlds best strategist right here!

Being a couch potato. Hello Sunday night.

Trying to use Google Maps to find a cheap-ass motel w/in walking distance of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

Dear Futureshop. Tabula Rasa no longer exists commercially. Please stop selling it. KThxBye.

Slowly mirroring a site with wget, realizing now that a 7-second delay between pages is going to take forever. smrt.