So on Sunday I got a weird idea to make a small computer game. There are tons of free options to make a variety of computer games, and I figure since I work for a video game company, I should learn something about the process. However, I'm not a programmer nor an artist, so my options quickly got whittled down. I was about to toss out the idea as just a lark when I stumbled across Inform 7 . Now...

I've been trying to force myself to write 2,500 words of personal writing a week (approximately 500 words a weeknight). It took a while to get back into the groove, but this week I managed to take some serious swings at "Gloomy Sunday," a short story I'm working on for possible inclusion in an upcoming anthology . I think I'll probably have to end up rewriting some of it to get it closer to the proposed...

A few years ago, when I was working on personal projects as well as freelance writing, I found that I needed to write out a zero draft in a journal before I could compose my thoughts into Word. Then I got the job to work on Mind's Eye Theatre: The Awakening , and from there I got hired by CCP, so I haven't had time to use a journal to compose drafts (though I do use it for taking notes and initial...

It's been a while, so let me catch up. Car and Internet : Last week I switched Michelle's SmartCar for my Mazda 6 again to commute to and from work. Friday after work the Check Engine light came on, but I was able to get the car back home. Saturday morning, the car refused to start. Since we had just replaced the battery, it clearly had to be something else, so we had to have it towed to the dealership...

The WTF Blanket. Courtesy emprint . (Also, the Star Trek movie was pretty neat.)

Title: Contraindications Rating: R for innuendo? Warnings/Spoilers: crack. Lots of shiny shiny crack. Heavily implied sex. Spoilers for Episode 1. And, um, I use the name of a character from Episode 3 once? A/N: Thanks to asimaiyat , bmouse , and emprint for giggling over this with me. Sadly, none of us are British-- my apologies for my American English. Summary:...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21095070@N03/3147618065/ Me, emprint and autumnflame at the company christmas party. Probably my personal favorite pic from that party.

So my xmas gift to myself was a month of WoW.  Yeah, i know, you can't eat only one and you can't only play WoW for a month. But damn, i'm having fun :)  I'm taking today to do laundry, and then i'm busy all day the 25th, the 26th through 29th i'm visiting Bro in DC, and on the 4th i leave to visit Parents for 2 weeks.  So it's not ilke i'll be this addicted for long.  But i'm enjoying it while it...

There is too much -- let me sum up. * Went to see the ECW live show/Smackdown tapings last night. A lot of fun -- more intimate than most WWE live shows I've seen, but still bigger than, say, HWA. * Stupidly busy at work, between a bajillion projects and trying to prep for GenCon. My schedule for GenCon is hella packed, so my feeble plans to possibly get a game together for fun fell apart. * Tomorrow...

emprint helps make awesome. The Vortex Oracle Example of its wares: The Future Meddler A time traveller fixing history according to a grand design. Psychovoros wearing pleasing guises, lurking nearer and nearer to the tasty minds they sense. The last member of a dying race, and the truth that dies with him. A brilliant scientist who has sacrificed everything for the project...