My plans for the brief Christmas break are still very much… intangible. As I think I’ve bemoaned previously, most people I know here are buggering off to all over the place to visit family and all that, which makes the prospect of a ski trip to Tahoe or similar – alone – rather unpalatable. On… Read more
Last night Ross, F1 & I sketched out the next Harold & Kumar movie. It starts out when two of our three protagonists come to believe there is a Dunkin Donuts franchise somewhere in the valley, towards which they set off, and many mad escapades are had. As it turns out, however, the nearest Dunkin… Read more
I arrived back in SFO on Sunday. The flight back was pretty poor… I’ve had worse.. but then I’m pretty used to it by now. Anyway, that’s a story for another time; I just wanted to note that I’m back, and am going through my handful of photos. It’s a surprisingly large amount of work;… Read more
We just had an earthquake. Not a damaging one, but enough to shake the room, rattle blinds, knock [precariously placed] stuff off shelves, etc. It certainly gets the heart going a bit, though… now I get to sit here and wonder if that was just the precursor to something bigger, or not… And already there’s… Read more
I tried to think up a good title for this, but “Total Annihilation” is just so freakin’ cool anyway. :D It arrived today, my TA Gold boxed kit. Better late than never, right? :) There’s a few glitches running it in Classic, but luckily none that interfere with the gameplay once you get into it.… Read more
I bought a big bag of potatoes around about the first week I was here. I happened to look at them the other day, and discovered they’d developed tentacles and were escaping from the bag. Apparently potatoes, despite having a reputation for being sedentary and impassive, are actually physical conduits into this world for Cthulhu.… Read more