Gaming
Animal Crossing? No freakin' way! The number of hours that I've sunk into living in the woods with cartoon animals, on the GameCube, on the DS, on the Wii, really can't be measured. There are still times when I look out at my overgrown lawn
Writing
It starts as a blend of Star Wars and Ranger Rick. I had started a Ranger Rick fan club with my best friend Josh Nissim and his little brother Jared, and I guess Josh? I think there were four of us, but it couldn't have been Josh, and
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I want to be playing a game. I'm tired, a little groggy, a little drunk, maybe a little sick. It's been a busy week at work. It's been a busy week taking care of kids, a house, a cat, a spouse. I want to
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See what happens when I don't have time to game? I start reading, then I start thinking, then I start blogging.
Quotes
This is a wonderful piece in The New Yorker, and you should go read every word. Here are my favorite bits: I think we became the party of hemming and hawing and trying to be all things to everybody. And it’s not to say that we need to exclude
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I've lived almost all of my life in the Midwest, where the streets run North to South or East to West. My hometown actually had North, South, East and West Main streets. And it's easy to just take that for granted, that all streets are the
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Nevertheless, digital gods prompt us to consider what we do when we create civilizations unbounded by the constraints of the physical world. Game worlds free us to indulge in atavistic exploration, not only of those worlds, but of who we are. In the space of 30 years, players moved from
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The transition from the classic prokaryotic model to the deluxe eukaryotic one is arguably the most important event in the history of life on Earth. And in more than 3 billion years of existence, it happened exactly once. -- The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew) - Nautilus - Pocket
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This post by Kimberly Hirsh got me thinking about this poor little blog, sitting here unloved. I've been busy. More like I've been hiding. I wasn't really busy, which made it easy to hide and retreat from the world. Now I'm busy.
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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute - Nautilus - Pocket A fun little diversion into quantum mechanics, consciousness, and free will. These arguments that involve indeterminate things, things that both are and are not, really remind me of the Tao.
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Another wonderful post from Megan at homemade time: I felt exasperated. I stood in the middle of the fair and looked at Bea with her missing teeth, her dirty feet in plastic flip flops, her big pleading eyes, and some stubborn angry part of myself abruptly gave way. I asked
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There is no better smell than charcoal lighting in a chimney. What a gorgeous day.