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Month: October 2011

Perfection!

October 30, 2011Patrick 59 Comments

Jaybird gave me the idea for this post, yesterday. (Edit from Jaybird: I’ve modified the post time for this in order to make it Monday’s Essay because it’s *JUST* *THAT* *GOOD*. So this isn’t referring to “yesterday” yesterday.) Lots of… Continue Reading →

music, wrong

Sunday!

October 30, 2011Jaybird 4 Comments

So… what are you reading and/or watching? After I finish the errands (they kinda didn’t get done yesterday), I’ll finish the first season of Fringe . I hope. (I’m halfway through the episode with the upside-down writing kid and they’re… Continue Reading →

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Saturday!

October 29, 2011Jaybird

I’m going through “Lonesome Road” on New Vegas (I’ll link to the Game of the Year edition when it comes out) and I’ve started Vampire: The Gathering Bloodlines (on sale until Monday morning!) and I took the personality test and, once… Continue Reading →

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Weekend!

October 29, 2011Jaybird 6 Comments

Well, today we went up to Denver to say “has it been 10 years already???” at the place where they do all that biometric stuff for your Green Card. (It has.) Tonight will involve ordering a pizza, playing New Vegas, watching Fringe… Continue Reading →

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Interruption!

October 28, 2011Jaybird

The four of you who read this site but not the main site will want to read this post. Short version: Vampire Bloodlines is on sale for five bucks. This is that game I talked about. This is the best… Continue Reading →

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Library!

October 27, 2011Patrick 4 Comments

Today’s Free Thursday is undoubtedly known by all here… but the Free Thursday posts are after all not just for us, they are for the world. Looking for something to read? Project Gutenberg has about 36,000 free ebooks available for… Continue Reading →

books, Free Thursdays

Minzhu!

October 27, 2011Jaybird 6 Comments

I dream about music. The most recent dream was me quitting my job and becoming a one-man Ben Harper cover band who played the restaurant circuit (this song featured prominently). This is weird because I cannot carry a tune in… Continue Reading →

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Wednesday!

October 26, 2011Jaybird 13 Comments

Maribou and I have been married 13 years as of today. So I went through the various things that happened in the late 90’s to see what happened and all sorts of memories came flooding back… hey! Remember Chef Aid:… Continue Reading →

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Gojira!

October 25, 2011Jaybird 3 Comments

So, on Saturday night, we sat down and played King of Tokyo. The box says 8 and up, 2-6 players, 30 minutes. It seems to me that if the child is old enough to play Yahtzee, s/he is old enough… Continue Reading →

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Technobabble!

October 24, 2011Jaybird 17 Comments

It seemed to me that the best way to process the question of whether The X-Files is fantasy or sci-fi is to ruminate upon the inheritor of the X-Files’s’s mantle. No, not Millennium (though that was a corker of a… Continue Reading →

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