Zombies are coming! They’re closing in. They’re fast but not agile. I race through the building, climbing stairs and slamming doors. There’s nothing I can use to defend myself except this banister I’ve ripped off the wall. The little metal bracket for mounting it on the wall comes in handy as I swing it wide […]
The weirdest thing is that we don’t find it at all weird that the back yard starts an immediate sharp upward slow right outside the back door of the house. What frustrates us (dad and I) is that we can’t seem to get certain elements leveled like we expect. This trio of trees is unbalanced. […]
We’ve (where “we” is a bunch of St. Mary’s folks) started a small software business and our office space is in a skyscraper-ish building in some unspecified city. We’re doing OK but like all small software businesses, it’s a little hit-or-miss some months. On this particular event, we’re embroiled in a head-to-head shouting match with […]
There’s some kind of nasty illness going around St. Mary’s. It’s afflicting everyon; a Black Death-ish sort of thing that hits you hard for a couple of days and goes away. And then you wind up getting it again because you go back to class and getting it from someone else. I’m finally better and […]
Could this not be the ultimate in Cold War Era Nostalgia: Denver, CO. 210 total acres. Very rare – 1 of only 18 built. Massive 45,000 + sq. ft. of underground floor-space; high chain-link fence around central complex; 2 high capacity deep wells in power dome; 3 missile silos all interconnected by ½ miles of […]
Continuing with the Xcode/Cocoa/Objective-C lessons. Tough being your own teacher. Generously free mini-book PDFs help though. Successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2. (Did you notice? Me neither.) A. finished an experiment today. And with awesome results apparently. She’s probably calling you right now to tell you all about it. currently playing: Roots Manuva “Fever” > Sneaker […]
Almost two weeks ago, I announced that I’d completed the first draft of the novel I’d been working on over the past year. I had a few folks query me about the download for the complete PDF. To those: Thanks! To everyone else, here’s the first 503 words: The fires in the Port Calvert Asylum […]
Via A. & S.: The Concerned Idealist In A’s words: “creepy how accurate this personality test was….” currently playing: Delerium “Amnesia”
About three months ago, I decided to pit my Safari/Mail experience up against Firefox/Thunderbird and see where that took me. Since I spend so much time in a web browser and an email client each day, I want to optimize my workflow as much as possible. I wanted to find the “one client to rule […]
Running home in a kilt. Maybe the kilt is a little too long? The kids across the street are making fun of me. “It’s a kilt!” Ignorant bastards. They’re right about the top though. It’s hideously 80s femme. Halloween comes to life. With zombies. The kid needs to go to a school Halloween function at […]