Posted in Board Games, Reviews on Apr 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Paul (whose wife is still out of town) came over on Saturday night for dinner and a board game. While he and I explored the nuances (or lack thereof) in Gauntlet on Xbox Live Arcade, Jen whipped up some of he stunning spaghetti sauce. Bread was toasted and garlic-ed and some salad mix was de-bagged. […]
Posted in Weight Loss, Opinion on Apr 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was watching TV and a commercial for Maltesers came on. If you don’t know, Maltesers are little cookie balls wrapped in chocolate. The commercial involves the hygiene-questionable practice of a young, hip, urban male delivering a Malteser to his young, hip, urban, lithlely sprawled out female partner via the suction of a drinking straw.
My […]
Posted in Family Time, Video Games, Opinion on Apr 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Tonight I stayed in with the wife. We’d been experiencing a need for some together time so we indulged each other. And no, not that kind of time. Geez.
What we did do was polish off a bottle of wine and play some Wario Ware Smooth Moves for Nintendo Wii. Now, its not the most obvious […]
Posted in Opinion on Apr 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
So today, for some unknown reason, we navigated our way to Taco Bell for lunch. What a total mistake that was. It was extremely filthy, they were out of nacho cheese, and the cashier we were greeted by seemed to have a crippling antisocial condition. There have a ton of certificates on the wall - […]
Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Apr 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
While meditating on the catastrophe that is the current state of Twitter, I am faced with the realization that online communities are for the most part terrible.
First and foremost is the horrific siloing of personal content - instead of thoughts, ideas, images, and memes percolating across the internet in some liberated existential sense you end […]
Posted in Board Games, Opinion on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Monday night Paul Dawson gave me a call. We’d been intending to get together for some lengthier two player board games and his wife was out of town, wouldn’t I come over? Indeed I would. So Battlelore finally got to come to the table with an opponent other than my wife. As it is a […]
Posted in Movies, Culture, Reviews on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
On Saturday night the wife and I curled up in a ball to watch Shortbus, the controversial new film from John Cameron Mitchell. If you are savvy with films you might remember him as the mind behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but truth be told I didn’t see that and you probably didn’t either.
Shortbus […]
Posted in In Passing on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
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