Sarah McLachlan antidote post
matt | December 28, 2010
They keep running those sad ASPCA commercials during the Christmas movies while I’m trying to paint tanks. So, here are some happy critter pictures.
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Christmas goings-on, and a bit of catching up…
matt | December 28, 2010
Lizzy got me a copy of Back to the Future, of which we played a couple games this morning. It is quite a good game. It is by the same guys who did Fluxx, which I also recommend. My mother in law got me a copy of Munchkin Quest, which we played last night. Also, [...]
Lawn Darts
matt | December 26, 2010
So, some time ago, I learned that Lawn Darts were actually banned. (CPSC page). Out of control nanny state.
I should probably mention… and computers..
matt | December 26, 2010
That I’m going through old emails, catching up on my reading. A lot of it includes “things about which I should blog”, so expect to see a bunch. Growing up, I had a Tandy 1000TX. It was a good machine, in many ways a lot better than the actual IBM machines – the video had [...]
“Enterprise Ready”
matt | December 26, 2010
Some months ago, I discovered at work that my email was over quota. Q: Why do we have email quotas? A: We set them on the server because after some amount of space, Outlook/Exchange corrupts your mailbox, and we’d much rather have that corruption happen on your desktop than on the server. Q: Well, it’s [...]
Do ya feel lucky, punk…
matt | December 26, 2010
I’m watching Magnum Force, as Liz got me the Dirty Harry collection for Christmas. Already watched Dirty Harry… They did a very good job remastering it. Dirty Harry shows quite a lot of film grain – this one is much better. The enormous ’70 cars with super squishy suspensions are hilarious.
Christmas Miracle
matt | December 23, 2010
So, I’m driving to work this morning, and bang a right heading down Eastline towards work. The car in front of me slows. There is a dog in the other lane. Beautiful all white American Bulldog. Just hanging out, sniffing the breeze. The car in front of me carefully goes around the dog, and continues [...]
Gaming
matt | December 19, 2010
So, I was poking about on DriveThruRPG and happened across Majestic 12 Games. Their catalog is impressive – they have games to address all of the genres in which I’m interested (and some in which I am not), and the systems purport to be universal – most including rules for creating your own in a [...]
Watching Bones…
matt | December 19, 2010
Mayhem on a Cross. The soundtrack is nice. And I love Bones’s take on Psychiatrists.
deja vu
matt | December 18, 2010
Okay, so PDFs kind of suck. They’ve added so much crap to them that they’ve got a pantload of possible vulnerabilities, and the format has become so overgrown that trying to find a program that isn’t acrobat reader that can consistently read all variations is impossible. Evince, for example, while generally quite good (and indeed, [...]
