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Better Living Through Statistics
It’s a pretty well established fact that I lose weight when I follow through on my goal to keep track of everything I eat. That fact has been firmly tested by the fact that I have lost weight while keeping in that habit, and have gained it back when I’m not paying attention to what [...]
Essential Inventory
As part of my new compulsive need to organize my apartment, I’ve decided I need to make a list of all the essential things I need to keep for cooking and/or entertaining. Since I’m almost done with the bar (yes it’s taken me over two years now), I started a list of what I want [...]
World Building Side Notes
Out of all the best world-building authors that I’ve read, one thing that interests me the most is the way hints to the greater history and world background are dropped along the way. Tolkien’s world is the perfect example (as always), with all the work he put in to the history of his world. Historical [...]
Schedules
I’ve decided that in order to get anything done, I need to get a tad bit more organized. To that end, I created a daily task list to complete, along with a set of deadlines for articles and blog posts. I don’t think I’ll put the schedule itself up here, that way when I fail [...]
Facebook Privacy
I felt that I should chime in with my thoughts on the whole Facebook privacy hubbub. There are many places to catch up on the actual background to the argument, so I’ll just link you on over to Lifehacker’s Facebook tag which has a glut of information about it. This NYTimes article is also a [...]
Video Game Difficulty
The other day I was listening to Fast Karate for the Gentleman and they were talking about a couple of the games they were playing. I can’t remember the specific game that made me think of this (probably Bayonetta or something like that), but Dave mentioned that he thought Assassin’s Creed 2 was too easy [...]
2000-2009: First Decade of the “New” Millenium
That’s right, I graduated from high school in 2000. It doesn’t seem like a lot of time when I look at the number of years, but when I think about everything that happened in these last ten years, it feels like a long time. I spent much of the decade at university, first at RIT [...]
2010: The Year I Kick Some Ass
I’m making bold predictions for this year. I don’t think I’ll be actually kicking some ass, since that’s never really been an issue in my adult life. No, what I’m referring to is the fact that I think I’ve come up with actual achievable goals for the year. These goals aren’t just really easy to [...]
2009: A Year In Review
Last year was a pretty mediocre year event-wise, and a really poor year as far as personal goals went. From 2007 into most of 2008, I was doing really well as far as exercise and eating right. However, at the end of 2008 I started to fall into bad habits, and 2009 was just bad. [...]
Dungeons and Large Lizard-Like Creatures
A month or so ago I started running a D&D game with a handful of people from my family. It’s the first game I’ve ever run, so I’m not sure I’m doing all that great as a DM. I think we’re all having fun, though, and that’s what is important. We’re doing Keep on the [...]
