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flickr:Egyptian Goose

I work next to the Lake Merritt Channel, which means that I get see a lot of waterfowl on a daily basis. Mostly it’s your basic ducks and geese, but we get some others, [...]

Well, here’s the stages of my reaction to the news regarding Garber’s new show.

Garber has a new show? Excellent. I’ll watch Jack Bristow in anything. At least, I’ll try.
Even if it’s about lawyers.
Prophwhatnow?
Aren’t they worried about pulling a Book of Daniel and getting slammed for no good reason by the religious right?
Wait, Garber isn’t the [...]

“Google Search: suspenders a trend for 2007?”

Seriously, never before have I felt so much like I was living in Bloom County. Next, the Egg Nog council of America will be sending me bribes to get me to post about the fact that America’s all agog about egg nog blogs…...

And I sure as hell hope that [...]

This is some bits of my half of an IM conversation that I want to have somewhere available for future reference, and this is good a place as any:

8:20
Mmm.
8:20
I think redundant may have been an inadeqate word choice.
8:20
Let’s go with “obsolete”
8:21
In other words, Cyberpunk is a step backwards.
8:21
No…
8:21
Here we go:
8:22
Cyberpunk is such that its best [...]

You remember the Sega CD game Sewer Shark, right? Of course you do, because you owned a Sega CD, and you played Sewer Shark, which was a categorically awful game. Why did you play it? Maybe because of the MST3K-quality writing and correspondingly excellent acting. Maybe because of the addictively repetitive gameplay and fuzzy, ugly [...]

Boy, it’s not often that I nearly kill myself cooking dinner. And no, there was no burning or stabbing; I simply managed to turn cayenne pepper into an aerosol. Basically, I was performing WWI-era chemical warfare on myself, right in my kitchen. (Well, not my kitchen. I was helping my family make dinner prior to [...]

My favorite piece of software (ever), Scrivener, has reached 1.0, and is available for sale at $34.99, which is extremely an extremely reasonable price for the functionality provided.

Scrivener is intended primarily for novel-writing, although its features can be applied to many other tasks. With one of the best full-screen modes out there, it’s great [...]