I think I'll call it a "Bertrand Russell Party" (2003/11/27)
One of the miseries of the “holiday season” is the tendency for people to find themselves, unexpectedly, with nowhere to go. There is something horrible about the day when all your friends are visiting their families, and you are alone. This happens to different people every year, for different reasons. Perhaps a sibling is visiting Puerto Rico in late december. Perhaps a dispute over whether or not a loved one is a suitable partner has created a rift. Does it matter? There it is, December 24th or 25th, and there’s no one to spend time with; just an empty house, perhaps with a forlorn tree, which you are increasingly aware is already dead, even if it doesn’t know it yet, and which will shortly need to be thrown out.
[read more...]Finally. (2003/11/26)
So, in 1996, I was a real jerk. Some newbie posted what he intended as helpful advice to comp.lang.c. I insulted him at some length. A while later, he posted pointing out that I had been right… but a phrase stuck in my head.
[read more...]Metanoia update soon (2003/11/23)
I have to go scan the pages, but pretty soon, we have the long-awaited metanoia update. If the secret to a happy ending is knowing when to stop the story, well, we just missed our chance.
[read more...]I'm getting old. (2003/11/18)
So, Sunday, I moved some furniture.
[read more...]He says he doesn't want to fight. (2003/11/16)
He says he doesn’t want to fight.
[read more...]Creating worlds is always slow starting. (2003/11/13)
The problem with D&D is that it’s fun to have a good, detailed, world, but it’s a lot of work to make a world interesting enough to play in, without building into it The Conflict which, once resolved, leaves you with nowhere to go.
[read more...]200,000 pieces of spam. (2003/11/12)
Sometime this week, I got my 200,000th piece of spam. Actually, this is not precisely true. It’s my 200,000th piece of spam since I switched to the MH mailer in October of 1997. I’d gotten a bit before then.
[read more...]The design flaw with the GameCube. (2003/11/12)
I got a GameCube a while back. It was cheap, and it had neat games, but most importantly (for me), it lets me play GameBoy games on the Big Screen.
[read more...]A little light reading... (2003/11/07)
So, one of my habits is genre fiction. I love genre fiction. I know it’s not “real literature.” I don’t care.
[read more...]Sprint is totally and utterly incompetent. (2003/10/27)
So, the most stunning thing about this is the sheer bulk quantity of massive, total, incompetence. I can’t imagine how they managed to end up with so many people with totally different claims.
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