Dispatches

Today I was covering for a colleague, which involved working from 4am this morning to 2pm this afternoon. The worst part was that since I’ve gotten used to going to work at 8am, I could not get myself to go to sleep until some point after midnight.

A follow up on the now legendary Leeroy. Now you can buy shirts to show support for the misguided efforts of this hapless gamer. Here is what it looks like.

Many years ago, I was driving through the suburbs of Chicago with my girlfriend at the time and I saw what had to be a very profitable arrangement. Driving down the road I noticed a retirement home coming up on my right.

Yet another link I found through Boing Boing to an open letter addressed to Hillary Clinton regarding the whole GTA controversy. The letter is written by Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good For You, and I think he puts the whole issue into perspective quite nicely.

“Can’t you see? He has the mind of a child!” Or rather, the RIAA does. Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. The RIAA has done it again, and yes, they made bunny cry.

I just came across this Boing Boing post that says that Ron Jeremy may be getting his own reality show on ABC. You can read the Boing Boing entry here.

Hmm, yes. I have changed my theme yet again. Almost immediately after saying I was going to stick with the last one. The last theme, while I liked it visually, it was just a little too fluid, which seemed to make the posts blend together in a weird way.

While I was reading over Boing Boing today, I came across this little blurb about about a group of model airplane hackers who have constructed replicas of Star Wars space ships that actually fly!

I found this article on Wired.com all about research into human lifestyles using customized life styles to store data on social networking, sleep patterns and other activities. The author suggests in the near future we will be data mining, archiving and distributing all aspects of our lives.

Found this on the blog of dimloep_sum, who is an online friend of Christina’s. It seems pretty accurate to me. the Wit (60% dark, 39% spontaneous, 27% vulgar) Your humor style:

Oh my God! Total fanboy moment! They have just posted the trailer for the film version of V for Vendetta, based off of the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore. I am so freaking excited now it’s ridiculous.

Link to Part 1 Link to Part 2 Terrified of a world I could not mentally grasp, I attempted to exert control over my reality in lieu of understanding. This led me to paganism and the occult, and the attraction that magic could somehow give me the ability to influence the world around me.

I am such a nerd for being excited about this. This site is hosted by the fine gentlemen at Logjamming, which also happens to be the same company that hosts Wil Wheaton DOT Net.

I know just about everyone has done this with their website at least once, but I have to post this link. You may not be aware of a site called Gizoogle, which runs a Google search and translates all the results into Snoop Dogg slang.

Hmm… I am liking this new look. It is still just a WordPress template, but I’ve made a few little modifications to it and written a few extra functions for WordPress to use in order to facilitate the process.

Whew! I have finally moved all of my Blogger entries and loaded them onto the MySQL server. It took many hours of tedious copy and paste work, but I think it is worth it to bring all that stuff with me to my new home.

Yes, indeedy! I have my own domain now. Expect many things to appear here in the future including a diplomacy game server as well as other fun development related stuff. Slowly I will get all my old Blogger entries over to this server.

Link to Part 1 In my nightmares I had come to associate logical reasoning with a monstrous figure that would tear me apart even as it embraced me. Intuitive and experiential knowledge I began to associate with a mystery woman and the intensely spiritual lovemaking of my dreams.

When I was in high school I used to have a recurring nightmare once every month or so. It was part of the most important spiritual developments in my life. I am running.

Seriously, a group of young gentlemen have developed a recipie for beer incorporating guarana which counters the drowsiness you feel when you drink beer. They have released the recipie under the Creative Commons license as an experiment to discover what happens when you use the open-source model on a real-world product like beer.