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